On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:55:05PM +0200, Adrian Snyman wrote:
> I have written this module for extracting the unique characters from
> an input line, as I have been unable to find something to do this ..
> (For creating a Cipher key) ..
>
> If there is any use for this, please let me know. And if there are any
> problems, I will be happy to fix them.
It sounds like you're trying to extract the high-entropy parts of a
string. Just pulling the unique characters from an input string isn't
a reliable way to do this! There are information-theoretic reasons
why this is so; one place you might start reading to understand this
problem more deeply is:
http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow-notes.html
Peace,
* Kurt Starsinic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------- Senior Software Architect *
| `. . . it is important to remember that the only perfectly secure |
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