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From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Subject: Re: Encrypted hints 
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In article <1992Dec7.090513.672@nwnexus.WA.COM> jennings@halcyon.com (James Jennings) writes:
>I think that encoding hints with an "a=z" cypher would be a royal pain.
>It seems to me that any one encription scheme will be harder for some
>people to use than others. Some people could transcribe an "a=z" cypher
>in their head (I can't) while other's would be sufficently baffled if
>the answers were only written backwards.

One suggestionm, which I personally like, is to just transpose pairs of
letters. In a word with an odd number of letters, the last letter is
left as it is.

An example (done on the spot, in my head):

Htsi nercpyitno emhtdo si erlayl aeys ot od ni no'es ehda, ub tslil
usffcieitnyl boufcstade ot eb on-nrtviail.

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