[Noisebridge-discuss] Why do so many crackpots go for "crypto"?

[Alexander]

There happens to be 26 glyphs (according to my eyes), so here's the
text in A-Z (glyphs assigned based on what I thought they sorta looked
like, with random assignments for when I ran out of good matches).
Mistakes are possible...

VFQPAVAVFQBADAWXAIVWAJMTAEJVG
FQGJOGAINAJBFFQGCFQFQGJG
QIRGITFIFQYANEJKSVZQOFQA
QMTFEFZPFTFQKEFEVFQGDAVQAI
SVEFQCGAWQOWEANJBJFQYANEJ
FIANOPJFFVAWENGFTJFVFQAVGAFOA
FQYANEJFQOAFQCIFQFLEKQFAOCEA
DFKVGTJFQOQUAIJGSEVDNAJFBJ
DAOSETVIWQAJFGIHQFQSVEJFIF
FQGWENJGIUAEFQGOHZZAIFQBAI
FQYNEJFQOAMGFQEFIFZWTOFQNMFV
VFIFWQAAUAITFIFQPQJVJBJFQQUJFV
FQGJGQAIFVFQGOXNQAIGIWIFZEJG
FQOASFAGFGFOODETWIXEAK
MTAEJNAFQGPFNXJWQAFDEFEJF
FQFGIAJFQOAJATSVEJFQSAJFGYFMQ
VFQVLFEFOFQGWIAJVHZVZFFQSVFAE
FQBAOWFIAQIJCGAWSVFAEFQSVQJ
VFQOATFBIFQQJDOPQMQFQODAT
QKSOVZQOFQAJBJFQQUJFQGMOVTJ
FQFIVFECVTFI
FQGVRVWJVFQYANEJFQOAFIFFMOTTJF
OPAJXATJVPOEFG
FQDASGPGSHQNFIFQGLEVWA
FQEPAG
TDGFQQJFQEPGI


--lex / leks / alxndr


On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:51,  <travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:34:51AM -0700, Sai Emrys wrote:
>> ... and why do journalists eat this bullshit?
>>
>> http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/emirati-ex-banker-builds-unbreakable-code-1.639940
>> http://gulfnews.com/polopoly_fs/give-this-a-try-1.639960!image/2047322739.gif
>>
>> Le sigh. Anyone care to transcribe and break what is probably a simple
>> substitution cypher?
>
> "It uses a strange symbol set, and therefore must be secure"
>
> That is freaking ridiculous.
>
> I might actually break this, just for giggles.
>
> There's not enough to do a simple frequency analysis break, but if the
> language underneath can be identified, it should be plenty for someone
> who speaks the language.
>
> GOODNESS.  This is straight out of the 1800s (or earlier).
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