CipherQuest A

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mihi
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CipherQuest A

Post by mihi »

This is interesting.

After I had decoded enough to have letters like "the" I thought that this "t h e t _ _ _" could have meant thetans - it was the only word I could think of that matches this pattern, but I did not believe to find this word in that text (yeah, I've read about Xenu before...), so I tried to continue decrypting the text (using Emacs' decipher-mode...) but when I had "Hu___rd" as well I just tried if thetans could be correct ;-)

Finding the rest was just a bit of googling for the original text.
therethinker
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Post by therethinker »

I thought it was gibberish... I didn't figure out the whole thing, and I ended up doing the pairing by hand using bigram frequency.
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Post by markobr »

I soon decrypted the word "the" which led to more function words and made it easy to find out the rest.
SandyThiemer
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Post by SandyThiemer »

i used the website:

http://www.blisstonia.com/software/WebD ... /index.php

changing the B to a Space and then google for the original text :)
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