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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services)
Newsgroups: net.math,net.followup,net.crypt
Subject: Re: Distinguishing a Message from Random Data - Statistical approach
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 21:16:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 21 21:16:40 1984
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I may be a bit shaky on this point, but aren't you confusing message
(information transfer) and meaning (semantics)?  The "randomly
generated message" carries a great deal of information about the
message generation process but does not have any meaning associated
with it.  This is like transmitting data in a foreign language which
can convey a great deal about the structure of the language but almost
none of the semantics.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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