Python for Reverse Engineering

[Duncan Smith]

"James Stroud" <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.6042.1099806403.5135.python-list at python.org...
>
> > > Care to post the 100 strings so others can have a look?
> >
> > I'd rather not do that.
>
> If your friend was worth his salt as an algorithm writer, he'd be more
than
> willing to let you post a mere 100 strings. For any good generator, this
> would be paltry compared to the number of strings it would take to figure
out
> the algorithm.
>
> But--he is probably making impossible claims here, anyway...
>

[snip]

Doesn't that depend on exactly what is meant by "figure out exactly how the
algorithm works"?  If it means identify (with absolute certainty) the
algorithm used to generate the strings, then it surely can't be possible.

Duncan