I'm no cryptologist and this may seem obvious, but what about the idea of some sort of "mixed" substitution used in some stage of encryption. I'm imaging a process where some letters are represented by multiple glyphs and others by single glyphs. For a basic example: a=s
c=ii
e=d
h=l
m=a
t=dy
"The cat came." would "encrypt" thusly,
dyl iisdy iisad
Or possibly, certain glyphs would alter the
following or related glyph. For example, my "d" glyph would mean "e",
but an "id" glyph would mean (say) "g", an "iid" glyph would mean "f".
Glyphs like "i", and let's say "c" and their frequency could only be an
indicator and not a letter in their own right.
"Fame at the gate" is encrypted to
this:
iidsad sdy dyld idsdyd
Obviously, this wouldn't explain the VMS so simply.
I just get the impression there is some reason behind the
frequent repetition of <e><ch>, and <i> in the
text. Have any of those with the crypto-knowledge already discussed
this?
Considering that repetitive <i>s tend to come
at the end of words (or more accurately, rarely if ever, at the beginning) and
<e>s rarely, if ever, conclude a word, there would have
to be some other rules in play.
Is this just cryptology 101? Should I just
stick to my astronomy?
Ken
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