[51763] in Cypherpunks
Index of Coincidence
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc North)
Sat Mar 9 14:49:14 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 11:35:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Marc North <mnorth@netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
I'm new to the mailing list, but I have grep'd tcmay's CP-FAQ and all
related FAQs for this, but have yet to find anything.
I'm looking for detailed information on a statistical tool to aid in
cryptanalysis called an "index of coincidence". I would appreciate it if
someone could please explain what this is, how one builds such an index
against a given ciphertext, and how it is valuable in the cryptanalysis of
said ciphertext.
Many thanks,
Marc
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