I received this comment to my last post:

Jungrire, qhqr. V’z n uhzna naq V unir penml znq rapelcgvba fxvyym

This cyphertext does not look like it went through a particularly hard algorithm. In fact, the remenant of punctuation, and the fact that some of the letters show up with what appears to be a “normal” frequency is a big clue that this is, most likely, a Caesar cypher—or a shift of 13 letters. The question is, did the enterprising individual do it themselves, or find a webpage to encrypt their message to me.

I used a webpage to decrypt it. :)

20070307-Cyphertext

The cleartext is:

WHATEVER, DUDE. I’M A HUMAN AND I HAVE CRAZY MAD ENCRYPTION SKILLZ

The use of non-standard spelling of “SKILLZ” could have thrown most people in decrypting this cyphertext, but my on-line decrypter munched right through it. So, yes, some humans are amazingly adept at carrying out secure cryptographic functions; I have no idea what I was thinking in that last post. My bad.

3 Responses to “Humans and Crypto II”

  1. Matt Lavine says:

    Dammit! I knew I should have run it through the algorithm twice.

  2. Konik says:

    I would have thought it was comment spam from some eastern country…

  3. larm says:

    It’s tempting to post some total gibberish in a comment and see if you spend a few hours trying to decrypt it!

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