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Subject: RE: secret plan!
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2002 19:31:36 +1372
From: "DAIBZZXS" <DAIBZZXS@fairy.mag>
To: "skinny" <skinny@hotmail.com>; "thinker" <thinker@estlandtimes.es>

-----Original Message----

Subject: secret plan!
Sent: Tue, 18 Sep 2002 16:53:17 +0300
From: "thinker" <thinker@estlandtimes.es>
To: "skinny" <skinny@hotmail.com>

>MEMASNONEIDHODHRHIAEHMSB
>ILATLNETETUDWBHNTELCUC!H
>VTEOTRLINPA!
>
>TIKRHNE

Well,well,well... what have we here! Looks like I have stumbled across some criminals. Novice criminals, I guess. Because you, Thinker, forgot to encrypt the subject. Don't you know that everywhere there are computers scanning messages for special words? And I'm sure "secret" is a suspicious keyword. Anyway, it's a good thing I caught your message before it got into the chips of any nosey computer.

That's a very interesting cipher you used here. Looks like a simple transposition. You wrote each letter into one of two lines, always switching, right? So it first looked like this?

MEMASNONEIDHODHRHIAEHMSBILATLN
ETETUDWBHNTELCUC!HVTEOTRLINPA!

TIKR
HNE

And then you just pasted the two lines behind each other. Very nice. But if you want your messages to go unread, you'd better think of something that's harder to crack. And be wary of the ghosts by the church!

DAIBZZXS


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