07-24-2003, 06:23 PM
The smaller the message the harder it is to decrypt. A few words or a sentance can be near impossable to decrypt unless the encryption is really weak (like a simple substitution/caesar cypher)
Quote:i remember reading about a set of three ciphers that only the first one was decoded, and it was a set of numbers pointing to the nth word of the declaration of independence, and the other two have yet to be cracked. anyone know more about that? I think a "document" cipher program would be real cool, if you had a way to point to the nth word, and if the word doesnt appear, make notation to point to the nth letter of the nth word, because then you could solve it more easily without the help of a computer program if you had the key document.This site: http://www.unmuseum.org/beal.htm has fairly sound information on that cypher.
