[ciphertool-devel] Upcoming release

[Wart <wa...@ko...>]

I think it's about time that we had another release of ciphertool.  The
new scoring code is pretty much complete now.  The unit tests and my own
autosolving experience has shown it to be pretty stable.  I've also gone
through and updated/added to much of the documentation.  The the old
"stat digram", "stat trigram", and "stat tetragram" methods have also
been removed in favor of the new scoring commands.

I think this is enough of an improvement to warrant a new release.  I'd
also suggest that we bump the minor vesion from 1.5 to 1.6, since this
new scoring code is a pretty big change.

The only thing that still needs to be addressed before the new release
is the addition of some sample ciphers, like Alex suggested in an
earlier message.  Any takers on providing some of this ciphertext?  To
make it easy, we could probably just use the same plaintext string
encrypted with different cipher algorithms.  We could provide the
ciphertext in simple text files for now, and use the next release to
change the file format to something more portable.

Any takers?

--Wart