Manual to easy decryption!

A XAYG RHNSBAW LRNAKSZF GNZJWE LR LAGRE RTTEBHJAWWO ZY GOXCAHNO REJBAHSZY

AYE GZBSAW HSRG YZ FRWSISZJG LAGSG SG YRBRGGAFO XAY LZUWE SYERRE LR SY A
CZZF LAO ST NR NAE HZ LR FRGHFASYRE LO TRAF ZT CJYSGNXRYH AYE NZCR ZT FRLAFE
ATHRF ERAHN
(if you want to try it by your own, noone stops you, but above is a manual howto do this, if
you have comments etc just mail me!
Let's say you have gotten this message, but you can't read it, so you make some research on
it and find out that this message is encrypted in a very old algorithm. You know that this
message is written in english. You found a step by step manual howto decrypt this message
the best way. First step is to count all the letters and make a list.
You found a list with the normal procentuals:
%%
a 8,2
b 1,5
c 2,8
d 4,3
e 12,7
f 2,2
g 2,0
h 6,1
i 7,0
j 0,2
k 0,8
l 4,1
m 2,3
n 6,7
o 7,5
p 1,9
q 0,1
r 6,1
s 6,4
t 9,1
u 2,8
v 1,0
w 2,3
x 0,2
y 2,1
z 0,1

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for english texts.

So as you can see the letter which you can find most it quite sure the "e". So you can change
your text into the following form:
A XAYG eHNSBAW LeNAKSZF GNZJWE Le LAGeE eTTEBHJAWWO ZY GOXCAHNO eEJBAHSZY
AYE GZBSAW HSeG YZ FeWSISZJG LAGSG SG YeBeGGAFO XAY LZUWE SYEeeE Le SY A CZZF
LAO ST Ne NAE HZ Le FeGHFASYeE LO TeAF ZT CJYSGNXeYH AYE NZCe ZT FeLAFE ATHeF
EeAHN
The encrypted text is always in capital letters, and the decrypted in lower letters.
The next trick is to look after pairs of letters, in england the most common pairs are:
ss, ee, ff, tt, ll, mm, oo
So if in the encrypted text are some pairs you can be quite sure that these are the ones.
A XAYG eHNSBAW LeNAKSZF GNZJWE Le LAGeE effEBHJAllO ZY GOXCAHNO eEJBAHSZY AYE
GZBSAW HSeG YZ FeWSISZJG LAGSG SG YeBessAFO XAY LZUWE SYEeeE Le SY A CooF LAO
ST Ne NAE HZ Le FeGHFASYeE LO TeAF ZT CJYSGNXeYH AYE NZCe ZT FeLAFE ATHeF EeAHN
So, now you can start trying to find out some words if the text has still normal spaces. The
most common one letter words in english are "a" and "i". The most commons with two letters
are: of, to, it, in, is, be as, at, so, we, he, or, on, do, if, me, my, up, an, go, no, no, us, am,
by. The most commons with three letters are "the" and "and".
a Xans ethical behaKioF shoJld be based effdctJally on syXCathy edJcation and social ties no
FeliIioJs basis is necessaFy Xan would indeed be in a CooF bay if he had to be FestFained by
feaF of CJnishXent and hoCe of FewaFd afteF death
Now, you can try again to guess some words, use the letters you found out and look if it
makes sense. Or you can look if the person used a passphrase to make his cipher alphabet:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ALBERT?N???W?YZ???GH????O?
So, what can we also guess? Well i think it is clear that "X" stands for "m" because of the
"Xans", and the "J" stands for "u", i mean what else could edJcation mean?
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ALBERT?N???WXYZ???GHJ???O?
OK, now the "F" in necessaFy, yes, you are right it stands for "r".
a mans ethical behaKior should be based effectually on symCathy education and social ties no
reliIious basis is necessary man would indeed be in a Coor way if he had to be restrained by
fear of Cunishment and hoCe of reward after death

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Yes, the rest is easy to decrypt, but stop, there is a trick, you see the beginning of the cipher
alphabet "A L B E R T ? N ?" This can be a hint, let's try it with "A L B E R T I N S" Albert
Einstein, when you remove all double letters, and now let's continue with the next letter after
S, the T, but stop, mistake, we have T already, so use the U and continue in the alphabet. So
you will get the complete decrypted text. Good luck with my riddles following soon!
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties;
no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained
by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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