From: daleh@ix.netcom.com (Dale Harrison (AEGIS))
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 22:32:15 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: How do I know if its encrypted?
Message-ID: <199501120631.WAA27345@ix2.ix.netcom.com>
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You wrote: 
>
>The context this was being discussed in, was trying to make _plaintext_
>look like _ciphertext_. The operator of a data haven or remailer might
>hypothetically want to ensure that all text he dealt with was 
encrypted.
>So your method wouldn't do anything in that area.  

The discussion was one of whether you could distinguish plaintext from 
cyphertext by doing a statitical analysis of the datastream, i.e. can 
you tell one from the other without actually reading each message. The 
answer is no.

Dale H.