Recently, I developed an overly elaborate secret code for…well, no particular reason. I’ve been wondering…just how elaborate is this thing? If something I write in it ever gets intercepted by, say, my insanely intelligent French teacher, do I have to be concerned about it getting decoded? I’ve asked a couple people at school if they could decode it; no one could…but, most of the people I got to school with have the brain power of syphillitic camels, so I don’t count fooling them as a full-fledged mental merit badge. If I can get by you guys, though, I’ll add that bastard to my sash!
Here’s a sample:
rrbge_oprg0o_o_rweLwro_ot0a_anijmab_lfa_armrrbR/
Anyone?
Oh, except Mudshark–he doesn’t count. (I already showed him how it works).
It’s obviously a simple substitution cipher. Just substitute the next letter in the alphabet.
The answer is:
sschf_pqshPp_p_sxfMxsp_puPb_bojknbc_mgb_mgb_bsnsscS/
It’s still gibberish, though. Honestly, I don’t know why some people bother.
The blind cock crows at dawn.
The deaf dog answers with a yelp.
I developed an *even more * secure code.
Why, I can’t read it myself.
Haha.
I know what it says, and you don’t.
Haha.
I know what it says, and you don’t.
If you can’t tell us how it works, then it’s not that secure. The goal of modern cryptography is to develop encryption schemes that you can mail to your enemies, along with the encoded messages, and know that they’re safe (your secrets, not your enemies).
Some people really need to get laid.
First and second of all, I don’t know what you mean Hastur. Third of all, I thought mine was pretty close even if it doesn’t make sense. But who says that a secret phrase has to make sense?
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm?
Try Solitaire if you’re looking for a good, simple code system.
Google on “squeamish ossifrage” for an extreme example.
[Jason Fox]Let’s see … divide by pi, multiply by the speed of light squared, take the cube root, round to the nearest multiple of 5, modulo 53 … Is the third letter ‘C’? … You know, maybe this year’s secret code is a bit too secure.[/Jason Fox]
The best codes -IMO- are the ones that don’t look much like codes at all.
Careful oboes blow indescribably, on oblivious Donald’s fluff.
Okay, so maybe it’s obvious it has a secret meaning. But can you figure out what the secret code is?
Donald has a thing for oboes and dandruff?