Quote (squirrel @ Sep 14 2011 04:01pm)
Do people realize it's nearly physically impossible to decrypt something without knowing the algorithm? especially with a one sentence sample?
I could create an infinite number of ciphers that would decrypt "+y e-- u -t)apw3 -y) yw &u-oy3 r-aewa 8t pe\a?" into "i like to suck on dicks and this is my way of coming out"
so if you actually made your own algorithm and didn't just use an existing known one; if you actually expect someone to actually crack your algorithm you should be paying them millions of dollars.
especially with only one sentence as sample data.
if there was a longer sample you could just do a frequency analysis attack on it because all this really seems to be is a substitution algo. and by frequency analysis i mean in any sentence the most common letters are a,e,i,o,u and some other ones like s and t while uncommon letters consist of k, z, g and such. and then there are common successive letters such as ss, ff, ee, ll and then some of the most common three letter combos being t,h,e and a,l,l and such.