by OptimusYale Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:34 amCoolnerdbird wrote a challenge asking people to decipher this code. So I thought I'd give it a try and found it REALLY easy! Here is the code he gave:
S6 5 s*533ed 0532 6n 0 c60*4er and 50 25nda *5ssed 6ff. 5 5sh ha 5 had been 06re caref43 b4 n6w 5 have 66 send 5 6ver 6 h*. g4ess 50 wr55ng h5s s6 ha 5 can see wha he he33 has ha**ened 6 0 c60*4er. We33 g66d 34c2 f5g4r5ng h5s 6ne 6f a 25nd *4zz3e 64 xD.
The T and Y keys are also broken, this gave me a bit of a challenge but afterall, it's two keys and once you make most the word its pretty simple to find where they go. This is how to break a code like this:
First look for single letters. In the english language there are only two letters which can stand alone...which is A and I. As A wasn't coded by coolnerbird, it meant any single letters are either words with 'T' and 'Y' (such as it) or the letter I. The thing about code breaking is that it's all trial and error. So I took the number '5' which appears on its own many times, and substituted that into the the code. This is what it looks like:
S6 I s*I33ed 0I32 6n 0 c60*4er and I0 2Inda *Issed 6ff. I Ish ha I had been 06re caref43 b4 n6w I have 66 send I 6ver 6 h*. g4ess I0 wrIIng hIs s6 ha I can see wha he he33 has ha**ened 6 0 c60*4er. We33 g66d 34c2 fIg4rIng hIs 6ne 6f a 2Ind *4zz3e 64 xD.
Success, 5=I works. There are no blatent contradictions with letter positioning or anything so we can now assume the cipher looks like this
5=I
Everything else
So what next. Next I looked at first letter positioning of words and their relationship to other words. As some words were already completed, this made it really easy! I decided that 6=O. The main theory for this was '6ff'. Only one letter comes before 'ff' in the the english language (unless using abreviations, iff=if and only if). So using this thought I put O into the cipher. The problem was O looks like 0, which was still undecided, so intead of putting in the O's, I left them till last, but I still knew they were there!
After that I found that *issed can only really be one word. As you get a feel for a text you can understand what this meant, which was pissed. That means *=p!
Great thats another letter down.
Our cipher is coming together,
5=I
6=O
*=P
Just as a note, when you decipher something its always best to keep the new letters in capitals, that way you know what you've changed and what you haven't changed
Ok I have given you a rough way of starting a deciphering method, it would be better if you finish this yourselves by just following intuition. Remember most the time only certain letters follow other letters. look at a ciphered word and go, that looks like it could be 'pissed' change other letters in the code and if it looks good it probably is! Any questions holla and I'll help you
S6 5 s*533ed 0532 6n 0 c60*4er and 50 25nda *5ssed 6ff. 5 5sh ha 5 had been 06re caref43 b4 n6w 5 have 66 send 5 6ver 6 h*. g4ess 50 wr55ng h5s s6 ha 5 can see wha he he33 has ha**ened 6 0 c60*4er. We33 g66d 34c2 f5g4r5ng h5s 6ne 6f a 25nd *4zz3e 64 xD.
The T and Y keys are also broken, this gave me a bit of a challenge but afterall, it's two keys and once you make most the word its pretty simple to find where they go. This is how to break a code like this:
First look for single letters. In the english language there are only two letters which can stand alone...which is A and I. As A wasn't coded by coolnerbird, it meant any single letters are either words with 'T' and 'Y' (such as it) or the letter I. The thing about code breaking is that it's all trial and error. So I took the number '5' which appears on its own many times, and substituted that into the the code. This is what it looks like:
S6 I s*I33ed 0I32 6n 0 c60*4er and I0 2Inda *Issed 6ff. I Ish ha I had been 06re caref43 b4 n6w I have 66 send I 6ver 6 h*. g4ess I0 wrIIng hIs s6 ha I can see wha he he33 has ha**ened 6 0 c60*4er. We33 g66d 34c2 fIg4rIng hIs 6ne 6f a 2Ind *4zz3e 64 xD.
Success, 5=I works. There are no blatent contradictions with letter positioning or anything so we can now assume the cipher looks like this
5=I
Everything else
So what next. Next I looked at first letter positioning of words and their relationship to other words. As some words were already completed, this made it really easy! I decided that 6=O. The main theory for this was '6ff'. Only one letter comes before 'ff' in the the english language (unless using abreviations, iff=if and only if). So using this thought I put O into the cipher. The problem was O looks like 0, which was still undecided, so intead of putting in the O's, I left them till last, but I still knew they were there!
After that I found that *issed can only really be one word. As you get a feel for a text you can understand what this meant, which was pissed. That means *=p!
Great thats another letter down.
Our cipher is coming together,
5=I
6=O
*=P
Just as a note, when you decipher something its always best to keep the new letters in capitals, that way you know what you've changed and what you haven't changed
Ok I have given you a rough way of starting a deciphering method, it would be better if you finish this yourselves by just following intuition. Remember most the time only certain letters follow other letters. look at a ciphered word and go, that looks like it could be 'pissed' change other letters in the code and if it looks good it probably is! Any questions holla and I'll help you
