David J. Aronson wrote:
Now, suppose you salt the plaintext with rarer characters, so as to
flatten out the distribution.
I believe compression has the same effect, actually--compression uses
fewer bits for common characters, and the result is that the
distribution of bytes is flatter, and harder to attack.
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