Re: Criteria, was Re: VMs: A cryptological assault ...

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Elmar wrote:

> Perhaps we should introduce another criterion for a
> successful solution:
> 
> "*) The plaintext reconstruction must be reasonably
> unambiguous"?

I'm with you here, but of course if the person(s)
who wrote the VMs used a lossy scheme, we are
stuck and have to allow some latitude.

In such a case, though, the resulting plain text
should really be plain text, and not something
odd or 'cryptic' that requires further 
interpretatation. I don't know about John's 
plain text, but certainly those of Levitov 
and Strong require this additional  'explanatory' 
step.

Cheers, Rene



		
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