Anyone like crypto puzzles? - /g/ (#106180948) [Archived: 296 hours ago]

Anonymous
8/7/2025, 9:30:56 PM No.106180948
IMG-20250807-WA0000
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md5: d47727248f395fb5d9f7e3bcc4dc0244🔍
Have been stumped on this one for a bit. It doesn't appear to be a substitution cipher, or at least quipquip.com can't solve it. I'm wondering if the punctuation might be significant... it's weird that there's no space after the second comma, for instance (unless that's just a typo). Probably not a transposition cipher since there's so few vowels.
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 9:46:43 PM No.106181136
>>106180948 (OP)
try some keyboard shift
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 9:48:15 PM No.106181164
>>106181136
https://www.dcode.fr/keyboard-shift-cipher
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 9:49:34 PM No.106181188
>>106180948 (OP)
These kinds of puzzles can usually be solved through raw brute force with modern fast computers unless they use some clever scheme.
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 10:22:48 PM No.106181620
>>106181188
If it *is* a substitution cipher, there would be 26!/14! possible keys, which is a pretty huge number. Not really brute-forceable
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 10:46:34 PM No.106181906
>>106181620
Yeah looking back "raw brute force" was not a good choice of words, brute forcing it with a more intelligent algorithm than just blindly guessing should be fairly quick. Of course as the keylength for a substitution cipher increases it gets harder and harder to brute force it even with a more intelligent algorithm, with the limit being a keylength equal in size to the plaintext resulting in it being impossible to decrypt (since any possible plaintext could be the answer). But for simple ciphers like this it should be fine since they are made for humans to figure it out by hand.