Newbie: Python & ADFGVX Cipher Cracking?

[Christian Meissner]

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Here my 'top', while running it with the whole alphabet:

Processes:  58 total, 3 running, 55 sleeping... 149 threads 
20:07:04
Load Avg:  1.39, 1.87, 1.78     CPU usage:  87.7% user, 12.3% sys, 0.0% idle
SharedLibs: num =  113, resident = 9.20M code,  704K data, 2.38M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num =  8629, resident =  632M + 2.68M private, 34.0M shared
PhysMem:  79.2M wired,  451M active,  226M inactive,  757M used, 10.9M free
VM: 4.60G + 74.9M   32522(0) pageins, 26052(424) pageouts

   PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE 
VSIZE
   649 top          7.3%  0:05.39   1    16    25   252K   464K  2.12M 
27.1M
   636 bash         0.0%  0:00.04   1    12    18   176K   908K   812K 
18.2M
   635 login        0.0%  0:00.06   1    13    37   132K   456K   496K 
26.9M
   634 python      92.1%  4:51.96   1    11  2308   569M+  372K   326M- 
  614M-
   561 bash         0.0%  0:00.13   1    13    21   108K   912K   696K 
18.2M
   560 login        0.0%  0:00.03   1    13    37    64K   456K   316K 
26.9M
   508 Terminal     1.8%  6:38.50   5    90   210  3.15M  7.70M- 8.17M 
  151M
   429 thunderbir   0.9%  0:52.32   6    92   235  6.62M- 5.63M- 7.26M- 
  179M
   428 firefox-bi   0.0%  2:56.19  10   190   310  13.8M  11.7M- 17.4M- 
  344M