From: Andy Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 20:06:19 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Is there any work on entropy-lowering schemes?
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Bill Stewart wrote:
 
> Peter Wayner's work on Mimic Functions does just this sort of thing.
> You can describe a grammar, feed it random bits, and generate output that
> has the right statistics and can be reversed to get the original bits.
> His paper was on cs.cornell.edu a few years ago; don't know where
> to find it now.

If anyone finds out where Mimic has moved to I'd be very interested.

Thanks,

- Andy