Re: why compression doesn't perfectly even out entropy

[Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:

> I suspect, that all of us, Perry included, will react the same way if we
> find that our one time pads read like "Hamlet", or equally likely, "The
> Comedy of Errors".  That is, we will tear the source of the pad apart to
> find out why it isn't working.  If we find that it IS working correctly, we
> will wish we had used that one truly magic[*] moment to buy tickets in as
> many lotteries as possible.

Much the same feeling I had when I got a royal flush playing for matchsticks
:-)

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