Re: coding and nnet's

At 14:17 11/10/95 -0500, Atp3000@aol.com wrote:
>I just resently got interested in coding and cryptography, and I was
>wondering if you could suggest 3 or 4 papers that adresses the aplication of
>neural networks in cryptography.

Perhaps neural nets could be used in an unknown plain text, brute force
attack to automatically select possible decryptions for human examination. 
I don't know of any papers on the subject.

Bill


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Bill Frantz                   Periwinkle  --  Computer Consulting
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Bill Frantz writes:
> At 14:17 11/10/95 -0500, Atp3000@aol.com wrote:
> >I just resently got interested in coding and cryptography, and I was
> >wondering if you could suggest 3 or 4 papers that adresses the aplication of
> >neural networks in cryptography.
> 
> Perhaps neural nets could be used in an unknown plain text, brute force
> attack to automatically select possible decryptions for human examination. 
> I don't know of any papers on the subject.

I remember seeing a good paper by our own David Wagner on how to do
this without anything more than some ordinary statistics -- no
complicated junk required. David, if you are reading this, could you
comment?

Perry