Yeah, I was thinking the ふお could easily be rendered as ふぉ. Or フォ.
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Unfortunately, wawariko doesn’t really make much sense, unless wawa is supposed to be sorta onomatopoetic (like the sound of crying)?
Quite. And that’s just with the shortest (and therefore simplest) code. It only gets worse when you look at the others.
Here’s a slightly terrifying thought: what if the kana itself is also ciphertext? Perhaps it converts to more kana or even back to english? Or maybe the romaji is the new ciphertext?
Either way we’d have our work cut out. Do you happen to have all of the kana keyboard conversions for the code on hand so I may take a peek when I have time?
Might this be what you are looking for? Kana keyboard conversions https://community.wanikani.com/t/descent-of-the-durtle-into-madness/34318/4224
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This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
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Yikes, I was not expecting the gif to freeze on that frame…
It’s a .png file though.
I tried copying and pasting a gif, but it didn’t exactly work out as I thought.
Here’s what it was supposed to be:
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Man my brain hurts… I think there are a lot of followers who just cannot thing of anything else to add… Such as myself.
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So, I’m idly pondering why it’s 死から開始. Why not 始まる or 始まってください or something. Is ～から開始 a common formation?
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Not that we need further evidence of the direct keyboard gibberish but the all the missing kana are too frequent. Think about how commonly used う、す、な、か、are.
Speaking of Japanese ciphering, check the Purple Machine from WWll that was eventually cracked by the US near the end of the war. I wish I had one to throw this code in. Interestingly: “The typewriter was built to be compatible with English, Romaji, and Roman, adding a level of mystery through language choice”.
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And る, which is on the full-stop key.
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Quote from the article: “William Friedman was hired by the U.S. Army to work on breaking the Purple cipher. Eighteen months into his work Friedman suffered a mental breakdown and was institutionalized.”
Is this our future?
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Red
The prototype machine was finally completed as “Type 91 Typewriter” in 1931. The year 1931 was year 2591 in the Japanese Imperial calendar. Thus it was prefixed “91-shiki” from the year it was developed.
The 91-shiki injiki Roman-letter model was also used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as “Type A Cipher Machine”, codenamed “Red” by United States cryptanalysts.
The Red machine was unreliable unless the contacts in its half-rotor switch were cleaned every day. It enciphered vowels (AEIOUY) and consonants separately, perhaps to reduce telegram costs, and this was a significant weak point. The Navy also used the 91-shiki injiki Kana-letter model at its bases and on its vessels.
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YOU IEA
you and I
The Purple machine inherited a weakness from the Red machine that six letters of the alphabet were encrypted separately. It differed from RED in that the group of letters was changed and announced every nine days, whereas in RED they were permanently fixed as the Latin vowels ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u’ and ‘y’. Thus US Army SIS was able to break the cipher used for the six letters before it was able to break the one used for the 20 others.
Has anyone tried Tirpitz?
I played with it, but haven’t found anything, however, if you do keep selected to ignore foreign characters, it will have words with spaces on it, I wonder if this has any relation to “Spaces are required” ?
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No… I’m trying purple, but it doesn’t like numbers
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