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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
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Subject: Re: Distinguishing a Message from Random Data - Statistical approach
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 17:09:22 EST
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For any particular set of statistical measures, you could obviously
generate a random message that met them and would thus seem to contain a
message, even though it didn't.

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