Nov. 20, 2000
4:10 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Kirby Urner wrote:
Also fun would be to take some clubhouse crypto texts and crack them. Although permuting the 26 uppercase letters yields 403,291,461,126,605,635,584,000,000 possible arrangements (looks impressive), if we know the plaintext is in English, then we can always apply some valuable clues, e.g. letter frequency, in descending order, tends towards ETAOINSHRDLU, plus we have commonly occuring letter combos, like ET EA OU.
I thought that was 'RSTLNE'.. Dustin --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Connection - in an isolating age )O( | ---------------------------------------------------------------------