The gibberish thread

[Hubert Dale]

But I do wonder whether software like CryptoCrack can do anything with this particular message, given the brevity and vocabulary?

Counting on your fingers would break that particular Caeser's Cipher

Worked for me. Got tricky after 10 - Anne Boleyn would have done better - but I coped .  And I suppose it’s really a monoalphabetic substitution cipher rather than a Caesar but that’s by the by.

I was just wondering how cipher-breaking software works. It’s obvious to a human to try A=1, B=2...when faced with a string of numbers going no higher than 26. Are programs like CryptoCrack designed to do the same?