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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:58:37 CDT, "David J. Aronson" <dja2001 at att.net> said: > How do cryptanalysis programs know when they've got it right? I am told It has to do with what's called the "unicity distance" - if we're expecting to decrypt and find English, what are the chances that a random key will produce 1, 2, 3 blocks of English? http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9812.html has a writeup on it.
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