Re: D!

[Steve Ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

YES !!
 you wrote:
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 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:32:29 -0300
 From: Dark MaP <darkmap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 To: John@xxxxxxxxxxxx, voynich@xxxxxxxx
 Subject: Re: D!
 <snip>
 >Don't
 ask why, but as I was doing some character replacements I found a 
 >rather peculiar thing happened to my words... I took F51R and replaced 
 >gallows characters with 'd + single quote' and crossed gallows with 'cdh' 
 >and then look at how close the words match those with a standard 'd'....

DarkMap wrote <snip> 
 Hi John...
 
 (I know it's the first time I talk in about the 3 months i'm into the 
 list...)
 
 Did somebody in the past considerred that the entire VMS be crypted with 
 simple character set replacing??
 At first, do we observe some kind of frequency in the texts? I think so..
  
 I think the more easy way to encrypt content in the XVI century it's simply 
 scramble texts replacing char chains by one or more key formation, żjust 
 like the fucking XORing? Well, let's think... imagine you are an alchemist, 
 do not have digital techniques, and have to write long portions of text... 
 but one moment, you need a method to code it so "nobody" could get it. You 
 need something easy to remind (2 u), you cannot create an xoring algorithm, 
 so... you can write a char and phrase replacement table, where you can know 
 what, (and when -why not?) characters must change. When? well, suppose you 
 are naughty () and like to confound the 'third party' seeks... you can 
 change the replacement sequence. i.e.: Page 1: change W to CF, A to Y, IS to 
 N... Page 2: change W to U, A to DY, IS to M... in a way where every/alotof 
 chars/chars-groups change enough to kill a frequency analysis... and if you 
 warp the characters and improve some more you'll get a beautiful manuscript 
 unreadable for the common sense.... I suppose some of you has already think 
 in this idea. It's not fool. Just think 'what do you have to do to encode 
 text if you were in past and without the knowledge nor electronics"... I've 
 got developed a encryption system that do this, growing the length of the 
 lines.
 
 
 Try changing Q to T and "aiin" to Y and read it in plain english and after 
 in deutsche, whaddaya seem?
 Also analyze the frequence of "eo", and "h_y" formations.
 Another ideas?
 
 What's the original language "we 'hope' the text be wrote in?"
 
 
 Bye,
     DarkMaP
 
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 In ANY language: *YES*, now just take ALL (finite known dictionaries
as per ADAM) and either get HITS or we are looking at an artificial
language.. (you / we - Throw out 1/2 the problem(s), I would think !!)


rem: computers run 24/7 etc.. (_ALL dictionaries_ included)

-=se=-
steve (just a late night thought) ekwall

p.s. XORing, good thought Sir, TOUCHE~  (duh steve - (ha.haa))