RE: VMs: Re: entropy, shorthand systems, gallows characters

["Marke Fincher" <MarkeFincher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> At 15:08 31/03/2005 +0100, Marke Fincher wrote:
> >Bear in mind that any cipher (whether verbose or not),
> >preserves the order of independent plaintext elements.
>
> Not true for transposition ciphers.

OK, I should have said substitution-cipher.

But is there such a thing as a "verbose transposition cipher"?
I suppose anything's possible...

> and if Philip Neal is right about lines being written alternately 
> on at least some pages (ie in two interleaved passes), then there 
> could well be a *line transposition cipher* within the overall 
> cipher system as well. :-o

Thanks.  I hadn't heard that.  But line transposition seems hardly 
worth the effort and certainly isn't going to slow up my decryption 
attempt. ;-)

Marke

 
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