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YEAH! reverse Caesar !

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:10:00 +0900, Markus <markus / reality.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 16:45, STEPHEN BECKER I V wrote:
> > it was a stupid idea on to how to crack some
> > ciphered text.
> > PBEGUUYMIQICUUFGUUYIQGUUYQCUIVFIQGUUYQCUQBEMEVP
> > And they gave no hints!
> 
>     So roll your own.  (Hints, that is).  Frequency analysis generally
> doesn't help much in cyphers this short, but Q is just begging to be
> space:
> 
> PBEGUUYMI ICUUFGUUYI GUUY CUIVFI GUUY CU BEMEVP
> 
> Which, assuming the plain text is English, makes GUUY on of:
> 
> Abba    abbe    Abby    adds    ally    ammo    Anna    Anne
> beef    been    beep    beer    bees    beet    book
> boom    boon    boor    boos    boot    cook    cool    coon
> coop    deem    deep    deer    doom    door    ebbs    eddy
> eggs    Ella    Emma    errs    feed    feel    fees    feet
> food    fool    foot    good    goof    Haag    Haas    heed
> heel    hood    hoof    hook    hoop    hoot    ills    illy
> inns    jeep    jeer    keel    keen    keep    leek    leer
> lees    look    loom    loon    loop    loot    meek    meet
> mood    Moon    Moor    moot    need    nook    noon    odds
> offs    Otto    peek    peel    peep    peer    pool    poor
> reed    reef    reel    roof    rook    room    root    seed
> seek    seem    seen    seep    seer    sees    soon    soot
> teem    teen    took    tool    veer    weed    week    weep
> wood    woof    wool    woos    zoom    zoos
> 
> ...with the caveat that it isn't "peep" (that would make G == Y).
> Noticing that the middle cypher symbol U is also the last in the two
> letter cypher word CU and that GUUY occurs inside the two longest
> words...
> 
>     Well, you get the idea.
> 
> -- MarkusQ
> 
>