Newsgroup: sci.crypt

>From article <1993Oct30.033130.1576@integrity.uucp>, by edr@mpd.tandem.com (Ed Rupp):
> Gee, the first thing I did with this was a frequency count.
> For SECRT1 we have:
> sp   e  t  i  n  o  h  a  r  2  $  w d0 cc \n  s  l e4 ae  u  * c
> 119 92 83 79 68 67 66 65 59 58 57 56 54 54 54 53 53 52 52 52 52 51 ...
> 
> Maybe the high counts for 0xD0 and 0xCC are PC text-mode line drawing
> characters?   That would account for the failure of the 'bit 7 off' 
> searches.

Yes, but they are not very common ones.

0xd0 looks like _|_|_

and 0xcc looks like | |_
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Diomidis
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