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Title: A puzzle for any cryptologists amongst us
Post by: Voss on April 13, 2002, 10:43:36 PM

Something to take your mind off of current events.

Title: A puzzle for any cryptologists amongst us
Post by: -dead- on April 14, 2002, 04:00:48 AM

Hehe

Title: A puzzle for any cryptologists amongst us
Post by: lord dolf vader on April 14, 2002, 05:02:11 AM

klingon? a shot in the dark ill admit.

Title: A puzzle for any cryptologists amongst us
Post by: takeda on April 14, 2002, 05:12:32 AM

No, was my first thought also, but klingon is more stylized :)

I suppose that it can be easily decoded asuming it is an english text and comparing the frecuency of the characters with the frecuency of letters in english (ETAOINSHRDLU).

Too lazy to check it myself :)

Title: A puzzle for any cryptologists amongst us
Post by: -dead- on April 14, 2002, 05:41:00 AM

It supposedly is klingon - the font is called klinzhai.

Title: A puzzle for any cryptologists amongst us
Post by: takeda on April 14, 2002, 05:50:17 AM

There might be then more than one "klingonese" writing, I found this one:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/klingon.htm
to be different than the one posted here.

Nonetheless I more fond of tengwar and elvish than the grunts of those ugly aliens :)

http://www.elvish.org

Title: A puzzle for any cryptologists amongst us
Post by: midnight Target on April 14, 2002, 01:23:33 PM

Where's a tuna when you need one?
:D

Title: A puzzle for any cryptologists amongst us
Post by: LtHans on April 14, 2002, 10:23:47 PM

HXFXJ KVYJA WHVYP PTPMC BYHQW HGVNE FTSOY BYODL GEIKW WTRGG YLPRU BMWTX FIXTL TZOBU AFRAQ BUXIX KOUST MLFOF USZLC SBBEV NFXJP XJUO

My reply is in German Enigma code (downloaded an Enigma machine simulator a while back).