...which pisses me off, because I'd assumed it was encrypted in Enigma, and was thus going to be hard to break (by my standards!), so I didn't try. And now I look silly.
Yeah, it encodes the phrase by the utterly secure method of shifting all the letters alphabetically by one. Rot-1 encoding, in other words. J dpvme qspcbcmz xsjuf jo uibu 'dpef' xjui wfsz mjuumf fggpsu. ;-)
With a quick perl hack there don't seem to be any other matches in my /usr/dict/words which match the assumption of a single letter substitution cipher. It's a shame that "enema submarine" failed at the last hurdle. :)
I used to do these things so often as a kid that when I came across rot-13 on usenet I recognised it as a character substitution cipher (and that r was e) and sat down and did the standard pencil-and-paper frequency and small-word thing. Only when I had 20 letters filled in did I notice that it was just a rotation. :) We used to do this kind of thing to win bags of sweets though, not iMacs! If only I were a kid now.
Was that a computer code? Have I just broken the Y^HDMCA? :)
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Date: 2002-04-16 08:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-04-16 09:11 am (UTC)Marvellous. Well, it's a way to spend...er...half a minute...
E.
x
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Date: 2002-04-16 09:15 am (UTC)egrep '^e.e..$' /usr/share/dict/words
egrep '^..b.....e$' /usr/share/dict/words
Now if it had been me, the magic words would have been squeamish ossifrage.
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Date: 2002-04-16 09:23 am (UTC)egrep '^e....$' /usr/share/dict/words
That makes it harder - but yeah, it's probably an enemy submarine. Pity. I was hoping for something which actually required cryptanalysis.
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Date: 2002-04-16 09:28 am (UTC)I made that guess, read the comments before verifying it, then saw
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Date: 2002-04-16 09:29 am (UTC)Where do they say it's a monoalphabetic cypher? IIRC Enigma wasn't.
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Date: 2002-04-16 09:32 am (UTC)Stupid Blockbuster!
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Date: 2002-04-16 09:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-04-16 10:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-04-17 02:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-04-18 06:56 pm (UTC)With a quick perl hack there don't seem to be any other matches in my /usr/dict/words which match the assumption of a single letter substitution cipher. It's a shame that "enema submarine" failed at the last hurdle. :)
I used to do these things so often as a kid that when I came across rot-13 on usenet I recognised it as a character substitution cipher (and that r was e) and sat down and did the standard pencil-and-paper frequency and small-word thing. Only when I had 20 letters filled in did I notice that it was just a rotation. :) We used to do this kind of thing to win bags of sweets though, not iMacs! If only I were a kid now.
Was that a computer code? Have I just broken the Y^HDMCA? :)