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Investigate effect of not including start/end bigrams #54

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hardbyte opened this issue Jan 9, 2018 · 1 comment
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Investigate effect of not including start/end bigrams #54

hardbyte opened this issue Jan 9, 2018 · 1 comment
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hardbyte commented Jan 9, 2018 •
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When creating the bi-grams, the first and last bi-gram are padded with a whitespace.

This is a weakness, because it allows an attacker to more easily to find the beginning and the end of a word. Intuitively it helps with matching so we should investigate if dropping the padding decreases matching accuracy.

Aha! Link: https://csiro.aha.io/features/ANONLINK-72
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hardbyte commented Jan 9, 2018

From Cryptanalysis of Basic Bloom Filters paper:

screenshot from 2018-01-09 14-07-43

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