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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Etaoin shrdlu #11504 11/30/2000 3:11 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 Bobyoungbalt veteran Bobyoungbalt veteran Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 In reply to: codes of the Playfair type A Playfair cipher (it's not really a code)substitutes letters in pairs from a simple grid. Dorothy Sayers, who was fond of such problems, gave a detailed description of the cipher and how to crack it when she has Lord Peter and Harriet discover and solve one in Have His Carcass. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Etaoin shrdlu shanks 11/29/2000 9:52 AM Re: Etaoin shrdlu tsuwm 11/29/2000 3:57 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu tsuwm 12/01/2000 3:53 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu FishonaBike 12/02/2000 9:01 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu Bobyoungbalt 11/29/2000 5:15 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu Father Steve 11/29/2000 6:09 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu shanks 11/30/2000 9:04 AM Re: Etaoin shrdlu FishonaBike 11/30/2000 1:32 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu Bobyoungbalt 11/30/2000 3:11 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu wow 11/29/2000 7:36 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu wow 11/29/2000 7:41 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu shanks 11/30/2000 9:08 AM Re: Ciphers/codes wow 11/30/2000 2:17 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu xara 12/01/2000 6:42 AM Re: Etaoin shrdlu shanks 12/01/2000 9:38 AM Re: Etaoin shrdlu Jazzoctopus 12/01/2000 7:38 PM Re: rabbit jmh 12/01/2000 10:20 PM Re: rabbit tsuwm 12/01/2000 10:39 PM Re: rabbit Jazzoctopus 12/01/2000 10:43 PM Re: rabbit jmh 12/01/2000 10:45 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu Capital Kiwi 12/02/2000 1:50 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu shanks 12/04/2000 12:29 PM Doubting Thomas FishonaBike 12/01/2000 10:28 AM Re: Doubting Thomas jmh 12/01/2000 11:05 AM Dvorak TEd Remington 12/01/2000 12:11 PM Re: Doubting Thomas FishonaBike 12/01/2000 1:36 PM Can't give chapter and verse but... shanks 12/01/2000 2:04 PM Re: cipher problems wow 12/01/2000 2:29 PM Re: cipher problems tsuwm 12/01/2000 2:48 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu TEd Remington 11/30/2000 8:07 PM Re: Etaoin shrdlu jmh 12/01/2000 8:19 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,312 Members9,209 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery 9,209 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 22 A C Bowden 10 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,158 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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