Re: VMs: No stats no fun ---> no stats no blinkers! :-)

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Consider the following (badly designed) pair
> cipher:-
> 
>          a b c d e       =       ba be bi bo bu
>          f g h i j               =       ca ce ci co
> cu
>          k l m n o       =       da de di do du
>          p q r s t               =       fa fe fi fo
> fu
>          u v w x y       =       ga ge gi go gu
>          z & . , !               =       ha he hi ho
> hu
> 

Well, this is a very bad example, or indeed an
excellent one, depending on the way you look at
it :)

Using the type of statistics people have been
using for years now, this wouldn't hold up one
day. People would be able to see precisely what's
happening very quickly.

But I realise that this is just something that
you came up with in order to give an example.
Really, what I could imagine you're doing is
trying to devise a more complicated and
more clever sort of encoding scheme, that could
have been used by a very clever 15th C Italian
cryptographer, and which would produce the 
sort of statistics we're observing in the VMS :-)

Cheers, Rene

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