From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@polaris.unm.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 19:03:14 PDT
To: collins@newton.apple.com (Scott Collins)
Subject: Re: Relation between number theory and cryptography
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According to Scott Collins:
> J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu> writes:
> 
>   >if we were to add some noise [then] we have added [...] information
> Perhaps in 'Information Relativity'.  With respect to the original system
> (and by definition), noise is not information.  It is only data.

This is a good arguement, but I believe I specified "algorithmic" information to
be added to the message.  This, I believe, does convey information of some kind.


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