#translational

[scoping-landscape]

Divisions of Codes and Ciphers

There are two kinds of codes/ciphers: transpositional, where your characters are the same, just moved about (like an anagram with a precise way to revert the encrypted text to the message), and translational, where your characters are in the correct position, but it's not the same characters (like a masquerade party).

The earliest transpositional cipher one would normally think of is good old Scytale. Imagine you have a tube, and wrapped around said tube is a strip of cloth. You have to make two decision: - How many sides does the Scytale have? - How many times can you wrap the strip of cloth around the tube? You have that? Good. Now, you write your message on the strips on the tube. For me, my Scytale has six sides, and I can wrap my strip four times around. After you've done this, you can unwrap the strip of cloth. What you should see is a bunch of characters with no rhyme or reason to it. The receiver, on receiving the strip of cloth, would wrap it around a tube of similar dimensions, and they would be able to read the message. My encrypted text: WSEARLIHSYULLIAFSLNWOA

The earliest translational cipher one would normally think of is our friend Caesar. Shift forwards/backwards by a number less than 26 (the number of letters in the English alphabet) to get a completely new one. My encrypted text: JURA GURER'F N JVYY, GURER'F N JNL.

While these are good in their time, there's just one problem if you use it now: It can be bruteforced. What do I mean by bruteforce? Well, let's look at the case for Caesar.

Since Caesar only has 26 possible configurations (assuming you're using the normal, unchanged alphabet), you can simply write out all 26 configurations, and see which one looks the most intelligible. For "JURA GURER'F N JVYY, GURER'F N JNL", it'll end up something like this.

KVSB HVSFS'G O KWZZ, HVSFS'G O KOM.

LWTC IWTGT'H P LXAA, IWTGT'H P LPN.

MXUD JXUHU'I Q MYBB, JXUHU'I Q MQO.

NYVE KYVIV'J R NZCC, KYVIV'J R NRP.

OZWF LZWJW'K S OADD, LZWJW'K S OSQ.

PAXG MAXKX'L T PBEE, MAXKX'L T PTR.

QBYH NBYLY'M U QCFF, NBYLY'M U QUS.

RCZI OCZMZ'N V RDGG, OCZMZ'N V RVT.

SDAJ PDANA'O W SEHH, PDANA'O W SWU.

TEBK QEBOB'P X TFII, QEBOB'P X TXV.

UFCL RFCPC'Q Y UGJJ, RFCPC'Q Y UYW.

VGDM SGDQD'R Z VHKK, SGDQD'R Z VZX.

WHEN THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY

XIFO UIFSF'T B XJMM, UIFSF'T B XBZ.

YJGP VJGTG'U C YKNN, VJGTG'U C YCA.

ZKHQ WKHUH'V D ZLOO, WKHUH'V D ZDB.

ALIR XLIVI'W E AMPP, XLIVI'W E AEC.

BMJS YMJWJ'X F BNQQ, YMJWJ'X F BFD.

CNKT ZNKXK'Y G CORR, ZNKXK'Y G CGE.

DOLU AOLYL'Z H DPSS, AOLYL'Z H DHF.

EPMV BPMZM'A I EQTT, BPMZM'A I EIG.

FQNW CQNAN'B J FRUU, CQNAN'B J FJH.

GROX DROBO'C K GSVV, DROBO'C K GKI.

HSPY ESPCP'D L HTWW, ESPCP'D L HLJ.

ITQZ FTQDQ'E M IUXX, FTQDQ'E M IMK.

JURA GURER'F N JVYY, GURER'F N JNL.

As you can see, the 13th one in the list is the one that is the most legible. If you don't know a key, you can bruteforce it. If there's not a lot of possibilities, then you get this situation, which both Scytale and Caesar has. Scytale fares a bit better, but it is still bruteforceable.

But there is a way to make the Caesar a bit stronger: key it. There are 26 letters of the alphabet, so there are 26! (26 factorial, basically the product of every number from 1 to 26) alphabets to choose from. The normal progression of the alphabet is but one of the ways to choose.

The problem with that, however, is that it's still very, very crackable. Anyone who has played Cryptogram before knows how easy it is to crack it without a key. Even if you have to use bruteforce to check, it's still rather solvable.

So we have to ramp it up somehow, but how? Enter: bigrams, trigrams, and polyalphabetic ciphers

#translational #tranpositional #scytale #caesar #bruteforce #cryptogram

[greelin]

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

#oh i cannot do this rn. #i need to consume as many translations as possible.

[savaralyn2]

Dungeon Meshi - Happy New Year 2024!

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #translation #laios #marcille #falin #laios has got the true deranged energy #ryoko kui

[cemeterything]

anyone who thinks dostoevsky's writing is dry and humourless is missing out on passages like this

#🐉 #i dont think my version is the most common translation because its worded a bit differently #(but still gets the same point across) #however im glad because this bit makes me howl every time i remember it

[lost-in-russia]

"Yeah, but I don't think he's gonna transition"

#russian meme #russian translation #russian content #russia #it's no chore to guess your next president #if you had one for 20 years

[ibtisams]

Israel is planning on using pumps to flood Hamas tunnels with seawater, which will threaten the water supply in Gaza

#post is in arabic so use translate I guess #palestine #🦢

[laughableillusions]

You! American fan of foreign or otherwise un-American media! Are you aware of the nuances and cultural differences that are portrayed in that media and have an understanding that you as an outsider looking in should be careful with the lenses you analyze that media in because you have a different perspective that is not catered to?

#media analysis #this post was made by an American btw #fandom culture #fandom #also that subtitles and translations are not always exactly correct

[sleepiercreature]

I couldn't find an English version so I put the fan translation of the sketch on top of the Dungeon Meshi: Adventurers Bible Complete Edition pages of this comic

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #mickbell #kuro #holm #daya #I don't speak japanese not my translation work I just mashed two images together

[metamorphesque]

"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)

#quotes #literature #translated literature #vardges petrosyan #armenian literature #my translations #a shirt made of fire #classic literature #dark academia #romantic academia

[itsolie]

i can’t endlessly retweet the original since i uninstalled stupid bird app, so i’m posting it here to endlessly reblog instead

#weeeeiiiiihhhh #wwoooouuhghhhh #weeeeeeigghhhh #waiuuhhhhhhhh #<- that’s my audio translation of the spooky ghost noises #i hope it’s satisfactory #twitter #tumblr migration #iconic

[mournfulroses]

Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006

#lit #mahmoud darwish #poetry #longing #words #poetry in translation #writings #selections #fragments #p

[zabreus]

my contribution to the masc hypno genre

#sorry #masc hypno #ftm hypno #forcemasc #force masc #forcebutch #forced masculinization #autoandrophilia #lgbt #o #to all the miller lite haters in the notes: yea fair #i wanted it to say spotted cow originally but it wouldn’t translate as well

[buttercupdemise]

i think about this a lot. what if a deaf human fell down the mountain. would he make his threatening language accessible

#at least once a month i ponder #is he the type of guy to search for a language translator #or google “braille alphabet” #or look up “ASL easy tutorial fast” #to make sure his wrath is sent into the brains of everyone he stands before #undertale #flowey #charrator

[savaralyn2]

Dungeon Meshi - Anime screening booklet extra

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #translation #marcille #falin #and then falin couldn't even get through volume 2. shame.

[ofswordsandpens]

I really am obsessed with this Medusa iteration. The snakes styled into a 1950's low bun? The red lip? The hat and veil just covering her eyes? Her voice, soft and beguiling yet always as if she's on the verge of tears? So good.

#again I have some issues with the book to scene translation #but the actress? ATE #pjo adaptation #medusa #pjo #percy jackson

[shiftythrifting]

"tator" cards from a Milwaukee goodwill

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #mysterious tator #goodwill #what #tator tarot?! #lost in translation