Letter/Char frequency I was reading Schneier's blog when I posted a link to his contest in wired. So I went to the link about someone trying to solve it:- http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2009/04/lost_wired_puzz.html This gave me a idea to add a frequency tag in Hackvertor :) It works like this:- 1. First param splits the letters up "[\s\n]" 2. Second param splits the words up "\n" It then loops through the letters and counts how many times they occur, if they appear more than once in a word, if the letters repeat and where they appear in the word. The tag then displays all this information and tries to perform a guess of the word based on frequency of the English language. Anyway it didn't solve the puzzle but it could be useful in future when I improve it, any comments or suggestions would be cool thanks http://www.businessinfo.co.uk/labs/hackvertor/hackvertor.php#PEBmcmVxdWVuY3lfMCgiW1xzXG5dIiwiXG4iKT4xNyAxIDIyIDE2IDggNgoyMCAxMSAxOCAxOCAxMCAxNAo3IDcgNSAxOCAyMiA3IDUgNgoyNCAxNSAxMiAxMyAxIDgKNCAzNCAxOCA1NSAxNCA5Mwo1NCA1IDYgMTEgMTAgMTMKMzAgMTIgNiAxOSAyIDIyIDUKMiAxIDExNyAyIDE3IDEgMTc8QC9mcmVxdWVuY3lfMD4%3D http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?13,28281,28281#msg-28281 Wed, 22 May 2013 18:21:43 -0500 Phorum 5.2.15a http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?13,28281,28281#msg-28281 Letter/Char frequency http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?13,28281,28281#msg-28281 http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2009/04/lost_wired_puzz.html

This gave me a idea to add a frequency tag in Hackvertor :)

It works like this:-
1. First param splits the letters up "[\s\n]"
2. Second param splits the words up "\n"

It then loops through the letters and counts how many times they occur, if they appear more than once in a word, if the letters repeat and where they appear in the word. The tag then displays all this information and tries to perform a guess of the word based on frequency of the English language.

Anyway it didn't solve the puzzle but it could be useful in future when I improve it, any comments or suggestions would be cool thanks

http://www.businessinfo.co.uk/labs/hackvertor/hackvertor.php#PEBmcmVxdWVuY3lfMCgiW1xzXG5dIiwiXG4iKT4xNyAxIDIyIDE2IDggNgoyMCAxMSAxOCAxOCAxMCAxNAo3IDcgNSAxOCAyMiA3IDUgNgoyNCAxNSAxMiAxMyAxIDgKNCAzNCAxOCA1NSAxNCA5Mwo1NCA1IDYgMTEgMTAgMTMKMzAgMTIgNiAxOSAyIDIyIDUKMiAxIDExNyAyIDE3IDEgMTc8QC9mcmVxdWVuY3lfMD4%3D]]> Gareth Heyes News and Links Wed, 20 May 2009 09:19:23 -0500