Re: coding and nnet's

[daw@delhi.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David A Wagner)]

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In article <199511111800.NAA23831@jekyll.piermont.com>,
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps neural nets could be used in an unknown plain text, brute force
> > attack to automatically select possible decryptions for human examination. 
> > I don't know of any papers on the subject.
> 
> I remember seeing a good paper by our own David Wagner on how to do
> this without anything more than some ordinary statistics -- no
> complicated junk required. David, if you are reading this, could you
> comment?
> 

Check out
	http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/recog.ps
for a paper by Steve Bellovin & me on doing plaintext recognition
with ordinary statistics.

It has nothing to do with neural networks, though....
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