Cryptogram #00001

[barnabas_truman]

The to aterxam X rypq ibqyeqs y jebyamq qu haxpqbjq!

--Dyatj Ftozyx

Comments

[ribbin.livejournal.com]

Good lord, and I thought my posts were obscure!

[barnabas-truman.livejournal.com]

I once got a group e-mail from the math grad student society, which consisted of a cryptogram saying something like "If you decoded this, you obviously have too much time on your hands, so come to our games night tomorrow!"

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

So is the first word actually the English word "The"....or is this part of the code, and just happens to look like an English word?

[barnabas-truman.livejournal.com]

The first word is not "The," nor is the second word "to." This is a complete letter-letter substitution cypher: every letter is changed to a unique different letter. For instance, if A means B in one place, then A means B everywhere, and no other letter means B.