W EWS AC XPTTIVZ JV

[cyrano]

E V G   C B E M B M !   A   U A M B I I G   D W C   L Y G X C W D Y B J 
 
J B R A M D   Z W U C S B Y V .   : )   A   C E W P D E C   G W P ' O 
 
F V   B J P Z V O . 

Comments

[mnarra.livejournal.com]

Hooray for software!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I knew T was a big fan--if I knew you were keen on it too, I would have included you in the message. Apologies.

[mnarra.livejournal.com]

I'm not. I just couldn't let that sit there on my screen, uncomprehended, so I fished around online and found some decrypting software.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

My first reaction is 'O you big cheater!'
But there is a great deal of hypocrisy in that, given that I went and downloaded software to *write* it.

[mnarra.livejournal.com]

Heh. Besides, it would only be cheating if I'd cared about the game. I only cared about the message.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Oh, tsk, tsk. Finding software to do the work for you?

I long ago wrote software to do the work for me. ;-) Let me know if you need about 400 lines of Python.

Also: Do let's not talk about the fact that I went to a wordlist to search for words fitting the "CBEMBM" pattern. (In my defense: having copied Cyrano's message into my solver--not my auto-solver, but my computer-assistance solver in which one still has to do the actual work--I didn't notice that it'd split UAM/BIIG across two lines. Once I corrected that, it was my breaking-in point.)