[7890] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Lowercase compresses better?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rsalz@CaveoSystems.com)
Fri Sep 29 18:15:02 2000
From: rsalz@CaveoSystems.com
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:10:10 -0400
Message-Id: <200009292010.QAA01666@os390.caveosystems.com>
To: crawdad@fnal.gov, rsalz@CaveoSystems.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
>If the page is basically text, then most of the alphabetic characters
>are probably lowercase, so there's a better chance of finding a
>patched string in the compression state. Right?
Theoretically. But given the vocabulary of HTML tags, what's the chance
of matching something other than themselves? "A" maybe, but how often does
(English) text have TR TD HREF et alia?
>What boggles me is that anyone would give a flying expletive.
Yeah.
