Re: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
> --- Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > I haven't reached a dead end :-)
> >
>
> Pardon my being very frank, Jeff, but I think
> you're walking up a dead alley. That's my opinion
> and I may be wrong, but let me explain why I think
> so.
> The main reason is that you're working from
> a transcription file in Eva, and you need to
> keep a close eye on what it looks like in the
> VMs. Thus, a word like 'fachys', which you're
> interpreting as a 6-character word does not
> look like a 6-character word. Same with 'ataiin'
> which is on the same line.
> As long as you don't deviate from this path,
> there will be a dead end.

Here the top line is letter for letter a representation of the first line of
pepys cookbook. It is based on using pure EVA and is a modification of what
I believe the VMS algorithm to be and would have made it more uncrackable
than it already is as it would have masked the repetition in word endings,
which is the biggest clue.

Now before you come back and tell me I am wasting my time, you tell me how
this works. Then I'll believe I'm wasting my time. You have the plain text
and the encipherment. Want to take the challenge. All the information is
there

cy.odei.f.ftke.ti.arcta.si.nhe.qhcky.ac.yook.tslshde
dd.ed.d.tyfltk.hp.ase.tcai.ifook.siiy.dp.hai.imlc.shsdy.do.ot.cty

cookbook plain text

to.make.a.stew.of.flesh.yf.thy.potte.be.iiij.gallons
do.yn.a.quarte.of.wyn.take.fayre.befe.of.the.fore.loyne.or.of.the

Jeff


P.S. It is true that f has a special meaning but it's use does not affect
the method I am using

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