Hello matt_crypto

> From your description, this appears to be the Hill cipher.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_cipher
>
> You could conceivably brute force the matrix, presuming it takes
> entries modulo 26. The key space is equivalent to about 40-41 bits.
>
> As others have mentioned, a crib would make things much easier.

Struth!

Just had a look at that link and it is written in some foreign language!
;-)

I can't understand much of it at all.

But I think most of my ideas are worthless.

Oh well. :-)


Regards
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Andrew Bruno
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