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Arjun Ray scripsit:

> Since security through obscurity is no security at all - unless you're as
> clue-challenged as this Russell Kay chappie - data being self-describing
> is irrelevant.

However, the presence of known sequences in the plaintext *is* an aid
to cryptanalysis, though probably not more than a theoretical one at
this point.

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