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I wonder that says, if it really says anything, only one language comes to mind that doesn't always use vowels regularly, and I beleive Raia knows it, so it might actually say something.
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well then I am percise in my posts but not accurate.
If I comprehend that discussion from Chemistry correctly then I just said my posts are consistently wrong, but I could have accurate and percise backwards. Posts: 733 | Registered: Sep 2003
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I appear to have made a mistake. The fifth word should be "xeucbg," not "leucbg." I will change the original post.
By the way, I unintentionally made this much harder than I meant to. I was going to post a series of codes with each successive one getting harder and harder, or at least different. This one is closer to the second one I was going to do.
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Well, assuming this is a single replacement code, it can be a good start to look how often a single letter occurs and match this with the frequency that certain letters appear in the english language. This is kind of a small sample which makes it unreliable, but nevertheless, I'm bored, so here we go.
The most common letter in english is "e"; winner in this sample is "b" that occurs 10 times, beating "x" and "g" on second place with 8 instances each. Statistically, one of them would be "t". Replacing all "b" with "e", and "x" with "t" we get:
mv oqgwi (titel)
yqTt utauTup hor TEm TeucEg sikaT wmm kfqw for kpvogq uw hEm ETcg fmT yvvfr vEww yEm gqggvygkaT tor TEm rEEr wsuEa hjoayscg
I can't figure out a word that would fit TEm, so I try again with exchanging "g" for "t" instead:
mv oqTwi (titel)
yqxt utauxup hor xEm xeucET sikax wmm kfqw for kpvoTq uw hEm ExcT fmx yvvfr vEww yEm TqTTvyTkax tor xEm rEEr wsuEa hjoayscT
At which point I see that I've managed to insert 9 T's instead of 8 and give up the entire exercise as fruitless. Bah.
I do have a program that counts the letters for me, so if anyone wants to know how many there are of any single letter, just let me know.
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x jqfufs li wiwa rnei f nvbmulp. ybm koozb elgv wawjgp fg "cczxei," uci "fqzxei." p ffux okioul ybm tgappwom behm.
va sbm bxz, h diwwhyshcxcomxk lnei ybqb fhxk pisviw lbio w vrfoh ni. x fxt zvxwu ai eehm u txwanx hu irsix pfcb mfdk anxfhxlbea tcs llyncwu oisviw sor lisviw, gg su fqftm xmolkwwsh. nbqb hcs nb voahxw li ibm xxhrcr scs n fxt zvxwu ai ss.
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Doesn't look like a simple substitution cipher. There is no word that has the same pattern as "gqggvygkax", for example (though "tattletale" comes close). Doesn't rule out proper names, though, so I could be wrong.
Nope, I'm not wrong . There are too many singleton letters ('x', 'u', 'h', 'n', 'p', 'w', and 'f', that I see).
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I'm having trouble parsing your question. By "subject of the code" do you mean what I used as a plaintext, or do you mean the subject of cryptography in general? My "condition" as you put it, pushed me into dragging my comms textbook off the shelf, if that helps any. It also got me to write the Perl scripts I'm using to encipher my messages.
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I meant your plaintext. Always found that particular passage to be kinda pointless, and felt one had to put in six pounds of interpretation to get out an ounce of meaning from it.
Wish I knew various coding methods -- figuring out your codes without scratch paper or some sort of computer language is a little taxing on my brain. I could try something in visual basic through Excel, I suppose, but since I never really learned that it would be hack-and-slash programming.
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Ah, OK. I just used that plaintext because it was the first thing to spring to mind. I have to say that I'm pretty impressed with the speed with which you deciphered my messages. I don't think I would be very good at it, even if someone told me the system.
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Sure, why not? Having multiple codes running simultaneously in the same thread can only make things more confusing! Posts: 4534 | Registered: Jan 2003
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Sorry, I've been busy with the MIT Mystery Hunt all weekend, so I haven't had time to take another look. Maybe tomorrow?
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