Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "atanas Cosmas Nkelame" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm putting here the 'encoded' text for someone to try to encipher the text > > or tell me what is the chance that one can encipher the text.
[From an FAQ on the subject...] > "I just came up with this neat method of encryption. Here's some > ciphertext: FHDSIJOYW^&[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it strong?'' Without a > doubt questions like this are the most annoying traffic on sci.crypt. [...] > There are some > systematic and unsystematic ways to take reasonably long ciphertexts > and decrypt them even without prior knowledge of the algorithm, but > this is a time-consuming and possibly fruitless exercise which most > sci.crypt readers won't bother with. And in any case, there are surely more interesting challenges of this nature than some random person's "elite" cryptography skills: http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/voynich.html Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
