Re: VMs: fake letters

[Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:
> Hi KM,
>
> At 21:19 14/07/2005 -0500, Knox Mix wrote:
>
> > The possibility remains that, 
> > aside from abbreviated endings, some letters were intentionally 
> > omitted because they were not essential to reading the script.
>
>
> It's certainly possible: though the VMs' small working alphabet (whether 
> fake or not :-) ) makes it less likely that nulls are present there. For 
> example, a good number of the more complex Tranchedino ciphers have 
> upwards of 100 symbols - plenty of room for nulls there.

Nulls were not considered in what I have described. The working 
assumption was that there were none.

Brian's script finds none in the file I am using. It lowers the 
confidence level for an ordered string of VMS trigrams -- end to end; I 
made no attempt to re-overlap them.

Knox
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