Re: VMs: Re: VMS: the "Mario cipher" again. Last of it I hope.

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

>
> It just means that some initials and some finals are digraphs.
> That changes nothing to the fundamentals of the cipher.
>
> IF the VMS is a "Mario cipher" then the immediate conclusion
> is that <o> is an initial, since it occurs so often as the
> initial of labels. Another is that <qo> is an initial.
> A third one is that gallows are very probably initials too,
> since they occur mostly at the start of paragraphs.
>
> Having identified the initials, say <o>, <qo>, <p>, <t>, <k>,
> all you need to do is re-insert them in the text. So:
>
> qoteedy =
>
> 1. qo is an initial, t is an initial, so: qo is a null
>    hence => teedy
> 2. restore the omitted initials:
>    tee, td, ty  (supposing that ee = one glyph)
>
> And so on.
>
> You are left with a single-substitution cipher.
> Dead easy to crack.
>
> That is why I believe that this is not the solution.
>

What about the triplet idea I suggested? Do you think it's going anywhere or
just a dead end?

Jeff


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