Simple language/code decryption

If you assume it's a simple 1-1 translation, it should be trivial. Have an orc say to you "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", and then write down what actually comes out.

CM

i'd be wliling to write up a program if you'd give some more information about the algorithim.

Hm, I guess I could get an alliance char to run down to the orc city and sign in as an orc. But that takes all the challenge out of it.

If you are looking to do things the hard way, I'm not convinced you'll find it as simple as it was in elementary school. Primary amongst the problems is that, in elementary school, you could assume the message was written in English. Whatever language the Orc *thinks* he is speaking, there's a pretty good chance its not English. So probabilities based on English words will be wrong. Plus, there are certain assumptions one can make about English words that you can't in this case. For instance, if you are translating actual English, you should assume that at least one letter in every non-trivial word is a vowel. "plz kthnx" is pretty conclusion evidence that this is just not true [plus, it uses x, which traditional logic says you should rarely see]. Finally, misspellings will fuck things up. If you see "gyd" you might assume it is "the", but in reality it is "teh", and you have the wrong translation for 'e'.

Whatever the case, good luck.

CM

You do make a good point. Hopefully I can figure in some of the 'nj' 'ty' stuff that gets said. Or maybe I'll just get an orc to talk to me...

I actually tried working on this a long time ago. Myself and a friend met up on another server in Ashenvale and said things and then wrote down what they actually meant. The problem is it is uninvertable. When saying one letter words, like 10 of then all give 'a' on the other end, 5 give 'e', etc.

Also, lots of three letter words such as tin and tan will result in the same thign being displayed on the other side. Basically, Blizzard came up with something to quickly turn what the user says into something that seems like orcish.

Interestingly enough, if you just sniff the packets, you can see that its sent to you in plaintext. So you can always read what alliance says to you but it is actually impossible to send messages to them.

Hope that makes sense.

Glad to know I'm not the only one, then [grin]. Sniffing out the packets might be a little past my skill, though...