[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
RE: VMs: algorithm to generate VMS like text
Hi
Brett,
Using
a technique such as this, manual encoding and decoding would be pretty
straightforward. I would imagine that with a practice it might even be
possible to 'read' the encoded text without resorting to tables. The spaces
between 'words' act as synchronisation points, so that you can start at a random
location in the text and still be able to decode it.
Another feature of the algorithm is that pretty much
whatever text you feed in, you get something VMS-like coming out but with
slightly different probabilities of various combinations of characters. This
might explain the apparent 'language' differences in the
VMS.
Cheers,
Jon
(not John) Grove.
Hi John,
your program output looks very interesting and the ouput looks like VMS
to my untutored eye. Any method that can produce VMS like text based on an
input stream of, in this case English, should make us all pause and think
about how this could be applied as a manual encipherment method.
Cheers and I hope there is more in due course,
Brett
Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet
experience