Sexy Opinion: Codes

[cocakoala]

For thanksgiving, my cousin said that for one of her internships, she needed to prepare a five minute lesson to teach to a group of students, such that there was some form of demonstratable knowledge at the end of it. She asked for suggestions on what she could teach. I suggested that she do a quick run down of cryptography, and teach them how to

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[anonymous]

encryption is not doing your best to communicate with me.

goose.

oh well, i don't think i can beat this horse any further, so i won't.

know i love you too, and i will do you the favor if you return it as well.

<3

[cocakoala]

In my defense, I was still mad at you when I wrote it. Being as how I went listened to freebird by pe'z 30 times while I was enciphering the message and around half of a tokyo ska paradise album while I was breaking drew's, I think I could actually count it as part of my theraphy.

Don't worry, babe. I still love you too.

I'll see you today and we can talk, if you like.

<3

[u2nes]

Just so you know, I originally just wrote my message in your code, then decided that it might help other people break yours and added one to every number. Classy, right?

[cocakoala]

Haha. You didn't help noelle break my code at all. She didn't look at your code; she just knew what the first word of any message I wrote to her would have to be, and went from there.

at times she can be scary smart.

[u2nes]

Pet names are dangerous, you know. I wasn't talking about her, though, she was supposed to break it. I was talking about any other friend bored enough with the tedium of their humdrum day to sit down and devote the better part of an hour to decoding a message that has nothing to do with them. In that perspective, I apologize to whoever feels up for accepting it for invading whatever privacy may have been entailed with that being none of my freakin' business.

Be happy!

[cocakoala]

Yeah, did you just brute force it as well? That's how I did yours; added one and just kept on translating the first seven or so letters until I had run through all 26 possibilities, and I kept a note of which ones looked likely. Then I pasted the thing into word and used control-f replace to switch the letters and numbers, and 10 was the one that broke it. Dunno how long it took me, but it was certainly relaxing and distracting.

Happiness is probably not on the horizon anytime soon, but for reasons which are actually entirely unrelated to this. Oh well.

[u2nes]

We're LJ addicts, just so you know. In case you didn't. And no, I didn't brute force it, I did it the happy simple way: counted up the letters, looked at my Scrabble tile distribution, and put different letters in for 9. Second try.

On that unrelated note, that sucks and I'm sorry and if you want to talk about it I'm here.