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joe316 · 2005-09-23 10:32:50

can someone decrypt this message for me please: DORSIEDOTYNBUCPEERIHHYNRTCACOACAEYINIE TOVERHDORDSUTSISECDDWHNOAUYSRAM DKAFGVOSSFISHEJRTEELWEIICEEODUONOKIOCE HLINTNMLTSNNLWTARREICDASPREHEO ADALECFWTAENITIITOAGOMWEBIEEUNEEUTLPRFP STMYEKAKHWWVIEBETOH is a college quiz so im not trying to break into anything if that s what…

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23-09-2005 11:32am

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joe316

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can someone decrypt this message for me please:

DORSIEDOTYNBUCPEERIHHYNRTCACOACAEYINIE
TOVERHDORDSUTSISECDDWHNOAUYSRAM
DKAFGVOSSFISHEJRTEELWEIICEEODUONOKIOCE
HLINTNMLTSNNLWTARREICDASPREHEO
ADALECFWTAENITIITOAGOMWEBIEEUNEEUTLPRFP
STMYEKAKHWWVIEBETOH

is a college quiz so im not trying to break into anything if that s what you think im doing, we got no more info than that message above, thats for any help

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#2 23-09-2005 11:37am
ARGINITE

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What does this have to do with programming.
Try this.

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#3 23-09-2005 11:39am
joe316

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i thought when its a crypto course that it would have more to do with programming than puzzles

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#4 23-09-2005 11:45am
Baz_

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Lazy bastard, do it yourself, it looks like a simple matter of a statistical analysis, count the occurences of each letter one with most occurences is more than likely 'e'. Thats your only clue from me.

Google for a table of frequencies at which each letter of the english alphabet occurs which should get you some way to solving the problem.

Oh and see here.

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#5 24-09-2005 1:41pm
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Baz_ wrote:

Lazy bastard, do it yourself, it looks like a simple matter of a statistical analysis, count the occurences of each letter one with most occurences is more than likely 'e'. Thats your only clue from me.

Google for a table of frequencies at which each letter of the english alphabet occurs which should get you some way to solving the problem.

You shouldn't have told him that much.

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#6 24-09-2005 1:53pm
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rsynnott wrote:

You shouldn't have told him that much.

Now I feel guilty

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#7 24-09-2005 2:45pm
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joe316 wrote:

is a college quiz so im not trying to break into anything if that s what you think im doing, we got no more info than that message above, thats for any help

I'll take the high road then....

*does the "You're going to faiiiIIiiil dance"

Oh,and since you have free time: shrink that sig

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#8 24-09-2005 3:06pm
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Bear in mind that everyone who gets through a CS course without being any good represents another horrible mess of code that you will one day have to debug.

'Course, this one is prob'ly just lazy. WHICH IS WORSE.

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#9 24-09-2005 4:13pm
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Laziness can be good in the right hands...

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