Re: Ascii-Art Secrets #1
From Dominic R. Scales <dom...@aerosensing.de>
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· 29 Oct 2001 10:45 · View full thread
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Mel wrote: > > "CJRandall" <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > news:BZc...@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''' .... _\.@@@@@@@@@. @(@(()@;@@@@/_ @ `@@@@@@. _{_~~___``)@@@@; (=|*)( * )===,-.@ `-'/ `-' ##|?)@ {( ; ###'&' # ### ###:@ #.`--' #####& `########",' `#####' | ___/\ /\___ DRS ,~' \/\ " /\/ `~. Dominic
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