Re: Breaking Huffman Codes

From: Paul Rubin (//phr.cx_at_NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 05/29/03

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    bill@nedell.com writes:
    > The data I am dealing with comes from airline flight data recorders
    > and I have been told that it uses a form of Huffman encoding. I have
    > samples of the compressed and decompressed data but little other
    > information about it's content.

    Umm, if you're investigating an accident, I'd hope you can get more
    info about the recorder from the manufacturer, or even see about
    reverse engineering the firmware in the recorder itself.

    Do you even know the alphabet of the messages that are getting Huffman
    coded?

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