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

["JH" <haleyj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marke Fincher" <MarkeFincher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> 
> > ...erm, like a verbosely enciphered version of an 
> > abbreviated plaintext, then? :-)
> >
> > Cohoroso, ....Nocoko Polonogo..... :-) 
> 
> Bear in mind that any cipher (whether verbose or not), 
> preserves the order of independent plaintext elements.
>  
> Hence any property of order within the words of the 
> plaintext language will translate through the cipher 
> to an equivalent property of order in the ciphertext 
> words.
> 
> The issue of nulls and fillers makes the picture more 
> complicated of course, but does not change this immutable 
> fact.
> 

> Marke


You forget the hilly nature of VMS words and what that implies.
You go up the hill differently to the way you come back down
Grass Hopper.

The VMS fairy


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