Leolaia: I love cyphers! Is the key to decrypt it contained within the text, or does it rely on privately held information?
Stump the expert.
by John Doe 45 Replies latest jw friends
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Leolaia
Hi Paralipomenon....It is a code, not a cipher, so indeed it does involve a codebook. In order to crack the code, you'd either have to have access to the codebook, or know exactly which book out of the millions and millions of books that have been published that I selected and then the procedures I used (with arbitrariness built in) to derive the code from the book. Some progress could be made with frequency analysis and English syntax, but not much imo.
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HintOfLime
It is a code, not a cipher, so indeed it does involve a codebook.
In non-technical usage, a “(secret) code” typically means a “cipher”. Within technical discussions, however, the words “code” and “cipher” refer to two different concepts. Codes work at the level of meaning — that is, words or phrases are converted into something else and this chunking generally shortens the message.
A bit interesting that you would use non-alphanumeric characters in your code... as well as the 3/3.1 syntax. I'm wondering if the 3.1 syntax on words indicates a group of similar concepts.. or is purely a positional reference/modifier within the codebook. Were I truely dedicated to decoding the messages, it might be an interesting endevour. (It would likely take quite a bit more sample points to do analysis from though, and I'd need to know more about you to potentially narrow down the number of codebook canidates.) It all reminds me of my long-forgotten facination with solitaire.
I was a fan of both one-time pads and TEA encryption when I was a teen. I went so far as to memorize an entire 128-bit key so it wasn't written down anyplace. My other system included a CD-ROM filled with 650 megs of random bytes - which I would select random entry points from for use as a one-time pad. Mostly to hide porn from my not-so-clever-but-nosey parents, of course. :P
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HintOfLime
Wow. My first duplicate post. And I didn't even hit submit twice or anything.
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JRK
I would stump the expert, if there was one here.
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awildflower
Heard this at work yesterday: If you have sex with a prostitute against her will, is it rape or shop lifting.
Did I stump you??
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Leolaia
It's a modifier. There are a little over 17,500 three-letter cominations possible, which should be enough to cover most commonly-used words. For those that cannot be assigned two-letter and three-letter combinations, the numeric suffix is used. Greek letter suffixes are used to indicate actual English suffixes.
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Leolaia
So is the expert gonna give me a decoding of my message? Or did I stump the expert?
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shamus100
How do you write a program for a robot to wipe my monkey ass using if-then-else logic?
Please write your answer in detail below:
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TD
Wow, Leo
John Nash couldn't have untied a knot like that.