Re: manual cryptography

From: John Savard (jsavard_at_ecn.aSBLOKb.caNADA.invalid)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:14:54 GMT

On 29 Oct 2003 08:55:37 -0800, jh113355@hotmail.com (John Hadstate)
wrote, in part:

>If you use 3 random letters for the key, he may
>have to try 17,576 combinations.

No, an autokey with a known alphabet can be solved rather more easily
than that - try the probable word method, for example.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html