[JRandomFreeper]

NSA has his originals. He's got copies and doesn't know it.

Amateurs shouldn't try encryption.

/johnny

[ThomasThomas]

But is it as good and successful as the code talkers? Never broken.

[Talisker]

"I made the symbols up, designed them myself making sure they don't belong to any language in the world. It's a totally a new secret language," he said.

Yeah, but it still stands for known languages.

But it would be almost impossible to decrypt any document encrypted using the Abu Dhabi cipher," Al Mazroui said.

"Almost" is not a real good word to use around cryptography.

[aruanan]

"I made the symbols up, designed them myself making sure they don't belong to any language in the world. It's a totally a new secret language," he said.

An alphabet, no matter how weird looking, does not a language make.

[marktwain]

This sounds like a relatively simple substitution cypher. They are pretty easy to break. Of course, the person who claims to have a cypher must show that it really is a code, and not just random noise. They have to show that a message can be sent and decoded from their code.

Anyone can send a set of garbage, demand that someone “break the code”, and claim that it is unbreakable when there is no message.

[sayuncledave]

“Paging Bruce Schneier, will Mr. Bruce Schneier please come to the lobby.”
Seriously, I’d just about bet Bruce could easily take it down. Check a few of his cryptogram newsletters to see what he’s about.

[Jet Jaguar]

techping.

[Oceander]

This should take all of about a week or so.

[rolling_stone]

brue reader....

[Gapplega]

The Poles will crack it in a weekend.

http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art207fr.htm

[The_Reader_David]

So what? The VIC cipher was never actually broken: the Soviet agent who used it defected and told us the algorithm and what he and his handlers were using for keys—straddling checkerboard to convert the letters to one or two digit numbers, followed by Vigenere-style encryption of the digits, followed by, if memory serves, a round of ordinary keyword columnar transposition and one of disrupted keyword columnar transposition, followed by reconversion to letters using the straddling checkerboard.

[Yardstick]

[JoeProBono]

[jdege]

One of the most singular characteristics of the art of deciphering is the strong conviction possessed by every person, even moderately acquainted with it, that he is able to construct a cipher which nobody else can decipher. I have also observed that the cleverer the person, the more intimate is his conviction. In my earliest study of the subject I shared in this belief, and maintained it for many years.

-- Charles Babbage

[MortMan]

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[GreenHornet]

“TO SERVE MAN.....IT’S A COOKBOOK!!!”