Re: Looking for help deciphering Dad's message to Mom.

"Yoshitaka Ikeda" <ikeda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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gglposting@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Here is what he wrote at the bottom of the poem:

http://home.comcast.net/~c.p/dads-cipher.jpg

To analyze this,
1st. Count up characters.
2nd. If plaintext is English, the most common character will be "e".
3rd. Characters distribution is always same in English, so select
Characters from frequency distribution table of Alphabets.

Also do an attack on words in their positions in the text, such as the
second-to-last word being "sincerely", or "love", (in Spanish) for example.


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