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Data Entropy Tool Mar 23 2006 04:20AM
davidribyrne yahoo com (4 replies)

Re: Data Entropy Tool Mar 24 2006 09:55PM
Aaron Turner (synfinatic gmail com)

Re: Data Entropy Tool Mar 24 2006 09:25PM
Tom Vier (tmv comcast net) (1 replies)

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:20:24AM -0000, davidribyrne (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed] wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a tool or library for measuring data entropy? Pass it a string, it returns a score.

fwiw: If you just need a rough comparison, compress the output. The lower
the compression ratio, the higher the entropy.

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Tom Vier <tmv (at) comcast (dot) net [email concealed]>
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Re: Data Entropy Tool Mar 24 2006 10:37PM
Mike Davis (mdavis imperfectnetworks com)

Re: Data Entropy Tool Mar 24 2006 08:52PM
Shawn Fitzgerald (sargon97 gmail com)

Re: Data Entropy Tool Mar 24 2006 08:36PM
exon (exon home se)