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[y2kbozo]

Imp method...

[theShaggy]

You guys blow my mind. Seriously, how do you figure what to subsitute where? Is there a simple way to figure a list, or is it just guesswork as to which letter represents what?

[y2kbozo]

I think TPrime did the hard part in an earlier message when he figured out what represented spaces and periods. Its much easier to crack these with spacing. I assumed this one was reversed because the text was right-justified (like the messages on conn.html) and spaces follow periods, not the other way around. (I don't know if it was just to be nasty, but there is a period at both ends of this message! I dropped the leading one when I posted the decoded message.)

There are 43 characters in the coded text (they use a space for "), which usually indicates that upper and lower case letters are coded differently. With the spaces and periods in, I ignore the first word of each sentence (to avoid capital letters) and break the rest the normal way (common letters: "e","t", etc., single letters: probably "I" or "a", and common two and three letter words.) Once this is done, I apply this to the entire message. Its then pretty easy to guess the capital letters and other punctuation.

I then go and bang my head against a wall until I feel better!

[theShaggy]

So are we assuming that conn.html and imp.html were using the same substitution (at least with spaces and periods? I thought that the $ was something important)? Interesting. Has anyone cracked twofish.html yet?

Still, I'm in awe, man. Simply in awe, and hope to learn your skillz.