--On Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:56:15 +1200 Nick FitzGerald
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2. I suspect that Mr Turing and a his halting problem will intervene
in any attempt to devise a foolproof "this message contains an
attachment" mechanism. The obvious choice to break any such system is
steganographic encoding of a binary stream into a text message. It may
be grossly inefficient, but do you think that really matters?
Dammit, Nick, you just *had* to interrupt my reverie, didn't you? :-)
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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