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My daughter is subscribed to this neat thing called "Spy University" - every month, they send out a package of 'spy' materials - some of it pretty cool. She's gotten listening devices, spyglasses, lots of neat stuff. This month they sent along a cipher wheel for encrypting and decrypting simple messages. She had a lot of fun having me decrypt her messages, and having me send her messages. Eventually, I got lazy enough to whip up a simple single letter substitution tool. It's a simple UI that lets me look at the cipher text and have it replace (printing above the letter in question) the presumed plain. Took me less than an hour to do, and it sure is simpler than messing with that wheel :) Maybe I'll go back to doing the newspaper cryptograms....
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