On 1/22/2019 11:00 AM,Peter Gutmann wrote, >I showed it to a psychologist and asked "which type of mental health disorder could the creator of this work have?". If the manuscript was indeed the product of someone with a mental disorder, it is interesting that the characters/words seem to share the statistical properties of known languages: http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Courses/CS5761-SPR04/Projects/rajk0007.pdf A follow-up question might be whether schizophrenics (etc.) typically produce texts that follow Zipf's law, etc., the way normal languages do. If their text is "flatter" or otherwise statistically distinct, that would count against this theory. (I'm not able with a quick google to find results of statistical analysis of the speech of such individuals.)  (But it's a very creative angle to take in any case!) Grant Schultz _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography