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

[Elizabeth Sarah Quirk Goodman]

I need not to do this myself right now, but this might help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequencies#Relative_frequencies_of_letters_in_other_languages
Quirk

2010/6/15  <travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org>:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:00:08PM -0700, travis at subspacefield.org wrote:
>> The text was blurry, so I came up with 27, assigned in alphabetical order:
>>
>> abcdeaeabcfegehiejahejklemjan
>> bcnopnejqejrbbcnsbcbcnon
>> cjtnjlbjbcueqmovwaxcpbce
>> cklbmbxdblbcvmbmabcngeacej
>> wambcsnehcphmeqorobcueqmo
>> bjeqpdobbaehmqnblobabceanebpe
>> bcueqmjbcpebcsjbcbymvcbepsme
>> gbvanljbcpczejonwmagqeobrj
>> gepwmlajhceobnj1cbcwamobjb
>> bcnhmqonjzembcnp1xxejbcrej
>> bcuqmobcpewnbpmbjbxhlpbcqwba
>> abjbhceezejlbjbcdcoaofobcczoba
>> bcnonxejbabcnpiqcejnjhjbxmon
>> bcpewbenbnbppgmlhjimev
>> wlemoqebcndbqiohcebgmbmob
>> bcbnjejbcpeoelwamjbcweobnubwc
>> abcaybmbpbcnhjeoa1uaxbbcwabem
>> bcfephbjenjosnehwabembcwaco
>> abcpelbrjbccogpdcwcbcpgel
>> cvwpaxcpbceofobcczobcnwpalo
>> bcbjabmsalbj
>> bcnatahoabcueqmobcpebjbbwpllob
>> pdeieloadpmbn
>> bcgewndnw1cqbjbcnymahe
>> bcmden
>> lgnbccjbcmdnj
>>
>> I think j and o are similar enough they might be the same glyph...
>>
>> Does arabic have 27?  If not I'll assume it's 26.
>
> Actually, Arabic has 28, so it might be Arabic, and one letter just
> didn't happen to be used.
>
> However, Arabic is written right-to-left, and this appears to be
> left-to-right with an indented signature at the end.
>
> Also, I don't know Arabic and couldn't crack it, so I'll try it
> as if it's English.
>
> Another possibility is that it's Romanization of Arabic, which
> would be even more difficult to crack than straight Arabic due
> to the alternate spelling variants.
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