Re: Barcode Email

From: Joe Peschel (jpeschel_at_no.spam.org)
Date: 07/26/05 

Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:30:01 -0000

daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) wrote in
news:dc3p8s$24jq$1@agate.berkeley.edu:

> Ari Silversteinn wrote:
>>The Program takes data and recodes it in a form
>>that reduces, without compression, by assigning a character for a
>>word. Say it takes the word "dog" and assigns the character ^ to it
>>(simplistic definition).
>
> If you're trying to describe a simple substitution cipher, I hope you
> realize that the security of such an approach is horribly flawed.
>

If he's using a character in place of a word, he's describing a code, not a
cipher.

J 

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