On 9/21/2011 4:09 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 9/21/2011 6:36 PM, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/21/2011 2:12 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Think of how noise is different from signal in Shannon's information theory. Messages
that have information are distinguishable. Messages that have only noise content are
indistinguishable, generally speaking.
A signal that looks like noise is one that carries the most information, i.e. is
incompressible.
Brent
Hi Brent,
Interesting, so if one happens to not have the proper decoding key, how is it
distinguished from noise?
Onward!
Stephen
It isn't. That's why encryption works.
Brent
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