Frustration, was: Re: VMs: Blanks

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Zitat von knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Hello Maurizio,
> 
> On 03 Mar 2004 00:48:43 +0100
> Maurizio M. Gavioli wrote:
> 
>     I am afraid I am reaching the phase of the "Let's leave this pile of
>     nonsense rot in its spot and forget it". 
> 
> That would be a loss to the list. 
> ...
> Ciao .......... Knox

I don't think Maurizio was serious about it... the VM is pretty hard to get rid 
off, once it's in your mind. ;-)

But the stage of frustration is one everybody goes through -- Naturally, and 
probably in regular intervals. I mean, the VM gives us so many hints that it 
must be child's play to solve, right?

*) It's a limited character set of no more than, say 30 symbols.

*) We have a huge corpus to work our statistics on.

*) The existance of internal structure reduces chances it's a hoax.

*) It is encoded (in all likelihood) in a system which can be cracked manually. 
No supercomputers required.

*) Symbol frequencies are uneven, promoting statistical analysis.

*) Characteristic symbol groups appear repeatedly in prominent spots.

*) Group length distribution suggest groups are words indeed.

*) Low entropy/ High repepetivivivity suggests... what?

This are so many dead giveaways... that of course it's even more frustrating 
that each and every approach you take sees you running into a wall.

The solution of the VM will probably be laughably simple, and once someone 
finds it, we'll all be stupified how it could take us so long to figure it 
out...

Anyway, party on dudes,

   Elmar


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