X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,22314b162d15df49 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-28 14:17:17 PST From: "Mel" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <9rhmkk$u24nh$1@ID-39741.news.dfncis.de> Subject: Re: Ascii-Art Secrets #1 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:16:30 +0200 Lines: 25 Organization: www.AdderleyStreet.co.za MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: user14714.vip-za.com Message-ID: <3bdd102c_1@batman.vip-za.com> X-Trace: 29 Oct 2001 00:15:40 -0800, user14714.vip-za.com X-Report: Report abuse to newsabuse@vip-za.com Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.238.2.15!skynet.be!skynet.be!infeed.is.co.za!feeder.is.co.za!newsfeed.vip-za.com!batman.vip-za.com!user14714.vip-za.com Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:9184 "CJRandall" wrote in message news:BZcUfTAb6H37Ewd2@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk... > Michael Schierl writes > >CJRandall wrote: > >> Ascii-Art Secrets #1 :- > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > !t hon cgu L6gq fy!z br6gz6 qou.f a!^6 fy6 agw6 gmghi > >>if you can read this please don't give the game away! > hmmm ... very clever ... i was warned this might happen :) simply substitution cyphers are easy to crack if you know the language it is written in... use a letter frequency, which is easy to get from a sample page from any book... 'e' is the most common... also looking for word boundaries helps a lot too to guess some replacements... I just could not be cared to take the trouble... if it's not using ROT13 (a simple Caesar cypher), I am not going to spend hours manually decoding/encoding postings... -- Smash yer modem, reboot, kill yerself You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message.