Re: frequency analysis

[John Stracke <jstracke at centivinc.com>]

David J. Aronson wrote:

> Now, suppose you salt the plaintext with rarer characters, so as to
> flatten out the distribution.
>  
I believe compression has the same effect, actually--compression uses 
fewer bits for common characters, and the result is that the 
distribution of bytes is flatter, and harder to attack.

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