ÛÏLS RXJ'BZ M GJBDZRXB RXJ PXU'W BZWLBZ; UMWJBZ BZWLBZG RXJ:)Û - PJMUZ SBRHLBZ
Placement of apostrophes should be adequate hint.
ACMW PXZGUÛªW ELFF RXJ HMEZG RXJ GWBXUKZB!
:good:DDSM
Answer to the CryptoQuote from yesterday:
Is the difference between the stone and the pipe material to the use of the property? If not, then only Surveyors care to split hairs. - Dave Karoly
Are you kidding me? Simple letter substitution ciphers even on short encrypted snippets is easily solved if the language is known and it' s not a contrived character frequency distribution message, which would compromise transmission of actual content.
Letter substitution ciphers are easily broken within seconds, to wit, "IF YOU'RE A SURVEYOR YOU DON'T RETIRE; NATURE RETIRES YOU:)? - DUANE FRYHIRE" at this online site: Solve me, even if I only have a short message. Good fun, I think not. Longer analysis of merely letter substitution streams wins out if the language is known.
More serious stuff involves rolling ciphers, codebooks, frequency hopping with a shortwave transceiver , etc. I've been interested in coding since the 1960s for no particular reason except it was fascinating. Funny how the technology infiltrated the techno banking industry, validating cell phone transactions to curb theft.
Me, I'm into steganography if you want absolutely secure communications with face to face keys prior the transmission. Innocuous during transmission and difficult to unravel essentially unsolvable.
Tom's fun game, sort of like Sudoku. It's easily solved by consulting the InterWeb. Sorry.
Mike Marks, post: 356232, member: 1108 wrote: Are you kidding me? Simple letter substitution ciphers even on short encrypted snippets is easily solved if the language is known and it' s not a contrived character frequency distribution message, which would compromise transmission of actual content.
Letter substitution ciphers are easily broken within seconds, to wit, "IF YOU'RE A SURVEYOR YOU DON'T RETIRE; NATURE RETIRES YOU:)? - DUANE FRYHIRE" at this online site: Solve me, even if I only have a short message. Good fun, I think not. Longer analysis of merely letter substitution streams wins out if the language is known.
More serious stuff involves rolling ciphers, codebooks, frequency hopping with a shortwave transceiver , etc. I've been interested in coding since the 1960s for no particular reason except it was fascinating. Funny how the technology infiltrated the techno banking industry, validating cell phone transactions to curb theft.
Me, I'm into steganography if you want absolutely secure communications with face to face keys prior the transmission. Innocuous during transmission and difficult to unravel essentially unsolvable.
Tom's fun game, sort of like Sudoku. It's easily solved by consulting the InterWeb. Sorry.
It's like. Just for fun. Dude.
Mr Marks,
I enjoy Tom's puzzles. No doubt they are simple when using a computer program.
Here is a puzzle you might find more to your liking.
EMUFPHZLRFAXYUSDJKZLDKRNSHGNFIVJ
YQTQUXQBQVYUVLLTREVJYQTMKYRDMFD
VFPJUDEEHZWETZYVGWHKKQETGFQJNCE
GGWHKK?DQMCPFQZDQMMIAGPFXHQRLG
TIMVMZJANQLVKQEDAGDVFRPJUNGEUNA
QZGZLECGYUXUEENJTBJLBQCRTBJDFHRR
YIZETKZEMVDUFKSJHKFWHKUWQLSZFTI
HHDDDUVH?DWKBFUFPWNTDFIYCUQZERE
EVLDKFEZMOQQJLTTUGSYQPFEUNLAVIDX
FLGGTEZ?FKZBSFDQVGOGIPUFXHHDRKF
FHQNTGPUAECNUVPDJMQCLQUMUNEDFQ
ELZZVRRGKFFVOEEXBDMVPNFQXEZLGRE
DNQFMPNZGLFLPMRJQYALMGNUVPDXVKP
DQUMEBEDMHDAFMJGZNUPLGEWJLLAETG
ENDYAHROHNLSRHEOCPTEOIBIDYSHNAIA
CHTNREYULDSLLSLLNOHSNOSMRWXMNE
TPRNGATIHNRARPESLNNELEBLPIIACAE
WMTWNDITEENRAHCTENEUDRETNHAEOE
TFOLSEDTIWENHAEIOYTEYQHEENCTAYCR
EIFTBRSPAMHHEWENATAMATEGYEERLB
TEEFOASFIOTUETUAEOTOARMAEERTNRTI
BSEDDNIAAHTTMSTEWPIEROAGRIEWFEB
AECTDDHILCEIHSITEGOEAOSDDRYDLORIT
RKLMLEHAGTDHARDPNEOHMGFMFEUHE
ECDMRIPFEIMEHNLSSTTRTVDOHW?OBKR
UOXOGHULBSOLIFBBWFLRVQQPRNGKSSO
TWTQSJQSSEKZZWATJKLUDIAWINFBNYP
VTTMZFPKWGDKZXTJCDIGKUHUAUEKCAR
DDSM:beer:
Dan B. Robison, post: 356236, member: 34 wrote: Mr Marks,
I enjoy Tom's puzzles. No doubt they are simple when using a computer program.Here is a puzzle you might find more to your liking.
[ . . .]
Now that one's a killer! I give up after an hour of using the tools at my disposal.
JBrinkworth, post: 356234, member: 6179 wrote: It's like. Just for fun. Dude.
Point well taken. I remember doing letter substitution ciphers by hand from the newspaper in the sixties, on a piece of graph paper. It's just not the same now when you can 1-click the solution on the Interweb.
Mike Marks, post: 356420, member: 1108 wrote: Point well taken. I remember doing letter substitution ciphers by hand from the newspaper in the sixties, on a piece of graph paper. It's just not the same now when you can 1-click the solution on the Interweb.
Mark, just don't one-click the answer on the interwebs. No wonder it's no fun for you. See if you can decipher it by hand like you did back in the sixties. (p.s., this is definitely made for fun. None of the ciphers are designed to be difficult but only to pay homage to some of our greater or funnier posts on SurveyorConnect. If you or anyone else has a quote you would like me to post, please send it to me.)
Mike Marks, post: 356418, member: 1108 wrote: Now that one's a killer! I give up after an hour of using the tools at my disposal.
Ah-ha! The Cryptos sculpture.
We had a bit of entertainment a year ago regarding a bench mark and the Kryptos puzzle over on the benchmark hunter forum (link). Even got Dave Doyle involved. Like so often happens, apparently the mark in question was destroyed.
