Re: looking for research partner [block cipher design]

From: Nicol So (nobody@no.spam.please)
Date: 02/25/03 

From: Nicol So <nobody@no.spam.please>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:08:18 -0500

Rob Warnock wrote:
>
> p.s. Note that "baud" is used above with the meaning of symbols per second.
> Technically, it's defined as "the reciprocal of the smallest signalling
> interval", but only inefficient encoding schemes send less than one symbol
> per signalling interval, so for conversational purposes: baud == symbols/s.

I don't think that's correct. In the definition I'm familiar with, one
baud equals one signaling event per second. It's not defined in terms of
the shortest inter-event interval. (There's a difference between the two
definitions, because signaling events need not happen at regular
intervals.) 

-- 
Nicol So
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