Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 17:28 CDT From: trump@pluto.ee.cua.edu (Louis Edward Trumpbour) ok well i am sure that there are a lot of people out there that want to learn how to do basic cypher/decyphering... so i think it would be nice if people gave their knowledge on how to do decryption... even if its very very basic and perhaps a faq could be made out of this info... Clovis sci.crypt has recently put out a FAQ (at last). I forget where it's ftp-able from but there's always someone on sci.crypt asking where the FAQ is, and it gets reposted from time to time. There are lots of ways to encrypt/decrypt/cryptanalyze. The sci.crypt FAQ lists some books on the subject. Would-be cryptanalysts could take a look at Abraham Sinkov's "Elementary Cryptanalysis, A Mathematical Approach", published by The Mathematical Association of America, 1966. -- Peter Meyer