Re: SIMPLE HELP

The Unicorn (unicornblackhats.org)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 02:44:36 +0200

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On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 05:25:23PM -0400, Winifred L. Mund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suspect I'm into a news letter way over my head.
>
> I am trying to transcribe a diary written by an 18 year old girl in 1886,
> large passages are in code.

Hopefully a 1-1 code? Else the next frequency table might not be enough...

> I recall as a child doing cryptograms, that I used a list of the normal
> incidence of letters in English. If I could find this list it might help.

I found this one stating relative percentages in Khan's The Codebreakers:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
8 1.5 3 4 13 2 1.5 6 6.5 0.5 0.5 3.5 3

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
7 8 2 0.25 6.5 6 9 3 1 1.5 0.5 2 0.25

> I live on a small French island in the Caribbean so I don't have an English
> library at hand.

But I do, even at home :-)

> Thanks for any help any one can give me.

Your Welcome, and nosey as I am, once you deciphered the message(s) I
would like to know what they were (using "private" email ;-)

> Wynne Mund
> mundwlcompuserve.com

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Ciao,
Unicorn.

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