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RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - nickpelling - 12-04-2021
(12-04-2021, 05:41 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't believe that there is any fundamental law that an encryption technique must increase entropy. It is perfectly possible for a cipher to decrease entropy.
Entropy was not a factor when designing ciphers pre-1500. All cipher makers had was a bunch of tricks to hide (or distract from) different linguistic 'tells'.
RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - ReneZ - 12-04-2021
RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - davidjackson - 12-04-2021
RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - Aga Tentakulus - 13-04-2021
RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - obelus - 13-04-2021
RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - -JKP- - 13-04-2021
RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - MarcoP - 13-04-2021
RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - Mark Knowles - 13-04-2021
RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - geoffreycaveney - 13-04-2021
RE: Has anyone ever "deciphered" a paragraph? - ReneZ - 13-04-2021