Begin3 Title: cswap Version: 0.1 Entered-date: 2003-09-18 Description: A filter that randomly swaps all characters in words in a textfile, except the first and last character in a word. This is to scramble text for experiments. Experiments have shown that processing text this way leaves it readable! Quoted from sci.crypt by John A. Malley: This is such a marvelous example of English language entropy/character I must share it with sci.crypt. A friend sent me this today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Dslyecixs taek haret Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deson't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteetr by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isn't that great? :-) Native English speaker/readers should have no trouble parsing the text because of the redundancy of printed English. Only the first and last letters of each word remain in their expected positions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- end quote To unpack: tar -zxvf cswap-0.1.tgz cd cswap-0.1 Then follow the instructions in README. Documentation is not complete yet. Changes 0.1: This is a first release. Keywords: audio, wav, ac3, AC3Machine, BeSweet, multi language, subtitles, SPU, simultaneous translation. Author: panteltje@yahoo.com Maintained-by: panteltje@yahoo.com Primary-site: ftp sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/apps/ (to be determined) Alternate-site: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/panteltje/dvd/ (homepage) Platforms: LINUX, UNIX Copying-policy: GPL End