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From: "Dominic R. Scales" <dominic.scales@aerosensing.de>
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Subject: Re: Ascii-Art Secrets #1
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Mel wrote:
> 
> "CJRandall" <colin@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> 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.

Hi, y'all

  although this LOOKS like a simple substitution cypher there's more to it
  that could meet the eye :)

  It is a mirror cypher where the characters are mapped to others that look
  similar when flipped (or rotated):

  i p m n 
  ! b w u 

  some are a bit more complicated like:

  y L a 6
  h r g e

  if you see the mirror/rotated image of the character, it's very simple to read...
  !t hon z66 fy6 w!LLoL\Lofgf6q !wga6 ot fy6 cygLgcf6L' !f,z ^6Lh z!wbr6 fo L6gq'''

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Dominic