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Once you have an ASCII transcription of the text (pigpen or not), you can drop it in a substitution cipher solver like https://www.guballa.de/substitution-solve
by BoppreH 5y ago
Once you have an ASCII transcription of the text (pigpen or not), you can drop it in a substitution cipher solver like https://www.guballa.de/substitution-solver https://www.guballa.de/substitution-solver .
In this case, the solver was able to immediately decrypt both ciphertexts, with a single mistake in the characters name ("Margeline").
- OscarCunningham 5y agoIt also makes a mistake saying 'Hey buys' instead of 'Hey guys'. Interestingly, https://www.quipqiup.com/ https://www.quipqiup.com/ makes the same mistake.
- BoppreH 5y agoGood catch. Weighting by common n-grams would probably fix this, at the cost of a much larger database.
- jedimastert 5y agoI'm betting the words were ordered alphabetically?
- qsort 5y agoI'm too lazy to look at the JS, do you happen to know what algorithm those tools use? Is it just naive maximum likelihood or something more interesting?
- BoppreH 5y agoThe one I linked uses no Javascript! It POSTs to an endpoint that returns the HTML of the page with the results. Now I feel bad for sending extra traffic to them.