Encryption application/NEED A HACKER TO TRY IT

[Paul Boddie]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> "atanas Cosmas Nkelame" <atanasy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm putting here the 'encoded' text for someone to try to encipher the text
> > or tell me what is the chance that one can encipher the text.

[From an FAQ on the subject...]

>     "I just came up with this neat method of encryption. Here's some
>     ciphertext: FHDSIJOYW^&%$*#@OGBUJHKFSYUIRE. Is it strong?'' Without a
>     doubt questions like this are the most annoying traffic on sci.crypt.

[...]

>     There are some
>     systematic and unsystematic ways to take reasonably long ciphertexts
>     and decrypt them even without prior knowledge of the algorithm, but
>     this is a time-consuming and possibly fruitless exercise which most
>     sci.crypt readers won't bother with.

And in any case, there are surely more interesting challenges of this
nature than some random person's "elite" cryptography skills:

http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/voynich.html

Paul