Re: Randomness from natural texts

From: Bryan Olson (fakeaddress@nowhere.org)
Date: 03/09/03 

From: Bryan Olson <fakeaddress@nowhere.org>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 04:44:40 GMT

Mok-Kong Shen wrote:

> I 'did' read you post, but I didn't understand, as
> I explained. If the texts have entropy, then one
> could tap that, couldn't one?

The entropy estimate is for *unknown* English text. Unless the
texts have always been handled as key material, we've no reason
to trust that there's any amount of equivocation.

It was a ludicrous idea. 

-- 
--Bryan

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