Re: VMs: Time to get hands dirty

[Jim Gillogly <jim@xxxxxxx>]

Bruce Grant wrote:
> > Jacques Guy wrote:
> >
> > > If the VMs is a cipher, then it is a cipher which _lowers_ the entropy of the
> >
> > text. The only cipher that can do that (Jim Gillogly, please correct me) is a
> > cipher that> encodes single characters of the plain texts as sequences of
> > characters, or whole words and sentences.
>
> Couldn't the insertion of null characters have this effect too? For example, if
> you took Latin text and intermixed some additional (meaningless) characters, say
> the digits 0 .. 9, it seems like that would also lower the entropy.

Quite right, assuming your nulls have less entropy than your
content.  Jacques gave an extended example of nulls decreasing
entropy later in the paragraph that you quoted part of above.
--
	Jim Gillogly
	Trewesday, 6 Rethe S.R. 2003, 07:06
	12.19.10.0.11, 3 Chuen 4 Kayab, Second Lord of Night

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