[43263] in Cypherpunks
Re: coding and nnet's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sat Nov 11 13:05:59 1995
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:56:58 PST."
<199511102255.OAA10734@netcom16.netcom.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 13:00:09 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Bill Frantz writes:
> At 14:17 11/10/95 -0500, Atp3000@aol.com wrote:
> >I just resently got interested in coding and cryptography, and I was
> >wondering if you could suggest 3 or 4 papers that adresses the aplication of
> >neural networks in cryptography.
>
> 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?
Perry
