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Re: Dictionary searching code



On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Adam Shostack wrote:

> 
> 	Does anyone have some code that will search a dictionary, and
> tell me *quickly* if an arbitrary chunk of text is in the dictionary?
> Pre-indexing steps are fine, as is using big chunks of disk for hash
> tables.  The point of course, is to check arbitrary possible plaintext
> that a test decryption produces.

There are several serachable dictionaries on the web.

That might be a good place to look for search code.

> 
> Adam
> 
> -- 
> "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
> 					               -Hume
> 
> 

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