Re: VMs: Follow-up

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

CBC:

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0%2C%2Csid14_gci344945%2C00.html


Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Follow-up


> Zitat von surfing t <surf17@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >... I don't
> > want to spend a lot of time on the VM if chances are its a hoax, so I'm
> > looking for indicators that it isn't.
> >
>
> Hiya,
>
> IMHO the strongest argument against a hoax is: The closer you look at the 
> text,
> the more rules become apparent which govern the composition -- like 
> "Paragraph
> initials are gallows", "serveral glyphs are word-inital or word-terminal 
> only", etc.
>
> _If_ this is a hoax, the author went very far in inventing and following 
> rules,
> much more than one would expect from a 15th century trickster. (Probably 
> even
> further than the linguistic knowledge of his time went.) Besides, there 
> even are
> features (like the high word repetition rate) which make the VM look
> "unnatural", and which a hoax author would probably not have used for this 
> very
> reason.
>
> Please, what is a "CBC-cipher", btw?
>
> Cheers,
>
>    Elmar
>
>
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