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  • Living up to the /. alias are we?

    If its encrypted or just letters shifted I may play with figuring it out, but knowing it can be gibberish is enough to talk me outta trying ;-)

    • Re:Heh (Score:1)

      by grub ( 11606 )

      I'll save you some work, it's not a simple shift (Caesar) cipher...
      (output from a quick script)

      1
      Ipjbkt qmbtkx btk day, xjko btk bptjkeo a rxkj kt btkejk pbjtk. Bebpjt pfjkeg xoja, rayq nbtpday dobtke rjxvf!
      Btpejke, xjkf tbkejt kt tkb xfpjydo bktjy mlkjy onwdjy rnxj. Rxfjk aynl jpq fsjv jayok mlxnpjd.

      2
      Jqkclu rnculy cul ebz, yklp cul cquklfp b sylk lu culfkl qckul. Cfcqku qgklfh ypkb, sbzr ocuqebz epculf skywg!
      Cuqfklf, yklg uclfku lu ulc ygqkzep clukz nmlkz poxekz soyk. Sygkl bzom kqr gtkw kbzpl nmyoqke.

    • It *could* be gibberish, but who knows? Maybe I reveal the secret to unlimited wealth in it. Of course, I might encode something that nifty using an OTP...

  • I have work to do and I'm staring at your damn sig and bio looking for patterns on a couple of rxvt's!
  • Heh, only just seen this.

    Reminds me of something from one of them Steve Jackson gamebook (or whatever the crap they were called) things I read when I was about 12. The preponderance of j's in particular. I don't quite remember how that code worked though, just something about shifting vowels. And IIRC the initials of each word were special somehow...

    Damnit, I'm going to have to go find the stupid thing now...
    <some time later>...Aha! Found the one in question. <reacquaints self with cypher>...

    • Oy. You're going to kill me. FortKnox [slashdot.org] was right, it's best to avoid this one. I had no idea anyone would spend that much time on it. It's actually, torturously, completely random.



      Sorry

      • Whoah, random as in a really incredibly obscure cypher, or ... just a completely random string of letters?

        I'm actually quite surprised to find myself laughing at this! Well, as I said in my Journal just earlier [slashdot.org], at least I've got some semi-useful scripts in the process.

        Sorry
        So you should be! :D :D :D
        • Since I have nothing better to do tonight (~an hour into my shift and... nothing), I'll play with this. Here are my assumptions:

          a) it's a simple substitution cypher.
          b) each letter stands for one and only one other letter.
          c) Spaces are important, and in the right places.

          That's what I'm working with; my assumptions may be wholly wrong, but I'll work with it this way until it proves utterly futile. :)

          Or I get bored with it, whichever comes first.

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