Re: [Tcllib-devel] dictutil commands on the wiki ...

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lv...@ca... said:
> Also, we would, of course, want to contact the appropriate authors,
> and get their okay before adding the code.  We don't want another one
> of _those_ reactions...

For the simulated annealing on http://wiki.tcl.kt/3835, I'm the author,
and (as with anything I put on the Wiki) the answer is, "oh, go ahead."

When developing the page, I worked from the descriptions of the algorithms
in the Metropolis paper, _Numerical Recipes_ (1st ed), and Sedgewick's
_Algorithms in C++_.  The cryptanalysis algorithm is an attempt to simplify a
half-remembered approach from a paper that I read once about twenty
years ago; the paper was likely J. Carrol and S. Martin. "The automated 
cryptanalysis of substitution ciphers. Cryptologia, 10(4):193--209, 1986.
http://citeseer.csail.mit.edu/context/548964/0

(Since I haven't a copy handy, I can't check readily.)

I won't say that nobody will accuse me of plagiarism, simply because
anyone can come up with a wild accusation.  But those were the chief
references.

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