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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Distinguishing a Message from Random Data - Statistical approach
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 09:33:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 21 09:33:16 1984
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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.

I seem to recall an article about random message generation using given
uniliteral, digraph, trigraph, etc. distributions not long ago in the
"Computer Recreations" column in Scientific American.