AppleScript & Cryptography
AppleScript & Cryptography
- Subject: AppleScript & Cryptography
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:51:43 +0000
Our friendly UK spooks have a competition posted here:
<http://www.gchq.gov.uk/codebreaking/index.html>
Where they've used substitution ciphers to encrypt a list of male and female
names.
I've used brute force *guessing* and a pencil to get all but six of the
names and am wondering if I should resort to scripting or searching the web
for the remaining answers?
You could step through each word with each letter shifted 26 times and
compare it with a list of real names but I thought that there must be a more
efficient way of doing this?
Checking letter frequency is easy on large strings but names are a PITA.
Anybody got any *elegant* solutions?
--
Martin Orpen
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