Posted on 02/01/2013 1:34:53 AM PST by Mad Dawgg
This is a test... OK it is a challenge. I know there are multitudes of smart people who lurk and post here on FR. Well I've been dabbling in Ciphers and Codes.
Why? Because a number of years back someone gave me the Cryptonomicon as a gift. It is a novel by Neal Stephenson. The story is hilarious yet based on actual historic fact. Places like Bletchley Park and people like Alan Turing loom large in the novel. If you are not familiar with the name or place it was where England broke the Enigma Code of the Germans in World War 2.
Anyhow after I read the book several times I got the cipher bug and have been messing around with them to see if I could make a simple cipher/code that is hard to break.
So you will hopefully find below my first public attempt. Have at it!
Good luck!
Just click in the lower right corner (of IE), and choose a custom size (like 25%).
Try Ctrl minus sign.
I posted that because it is an example of a simple monoalphabetic substitution cipher, a particularly trivial form of encryption, which is what I suspect this one is, too. In the Sherlock Holmes case, as in this one, the problem is trivially complicated by replacing familiar alphabetic characters with a substitute alphabet, but, if it is a substitute alphabet, that is also a trivial complication. Anyway, I don’t have time to attack it right now.
I did get this one, however:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2647637/posts#19
Is it unbreakable?
Within the timeframe I put into it - yes
(It is always about how much pressure...)
Try this:
1243
5 47 9 44 22 50 44 23 7 36 48 48 50 49
4321
35 40
Oh - and if you think you have it, please reply in the same code. Unless you think it is just too easy to be of any practical use.
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