"Steven T. Hatton" wrote:
The following message was posted to a news group. I tried to rot 13 it and didn't seem to get any coherent message. I assueme it is encrypted english. Does anybody have an idea how to crack it?
i hacked a character-counter (with narmalization to uppercase chars)
and found nothing which would lead to a simple caesar encryption :(
that's what I did:
cat puzzle.txt | charcount | sort -r
4.231 69[E]
3.308 76[L]
2.615 70[F]
2.462 75[K]
2.346 73[I]
2.154 77[M]
2.154 66[B]
2.115 83[S]
2.077 80[P]
19.038 others
1.923 85[U]
1.692 82[R]
1.538 89[Y]
1.538 65[A]
1.423 84[T]
1.385 67[C]
1.231 79[O]
1.231 78[N]
1.077 68[D]
0.962 74[J]
0.885 88[X]
0.692 71[G]
0.654 81[Q]
0.577 87[W]
0.538 72[H]
0.385 86[V]
maybe it's just another language with your wrong charset?` ;)
bye,
Mike
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