Cryptography

I was doing an assignment for Cryptography last night and ended up stuck on a question for a really silly reason: I knew the answer straight away. All we had to do was decrypt the following cipher:

53‡‡†305))6*; 4826)4‡.)4‡); 806*;48†8¶60))85; 1‡(; :‡*8†83(88)5*†; 46(;88*96*?; 8)*‡(;485); 5*†2: *‡(;4956*2(5*-4)8¶8*; 4069285);)6†8)4‡‡; 1(‡9;48081; 8:8‡1;48†85; 4)485†528806*81(‡9;48; (88; 4(‡?34;48)4‡; 161; :188; ‡?;

Which is all very well and good except that is possibly one of the most famous pieces of encrypted text there is. It’s froma story by Edgar Allan Poe. In fact a quick search on Google for 305))6*;4826)4 reveals 56,700 results. All but one of them on the first page are about the decrypting the damn thing.

So my problem is how do I write down my method? “Well I knew the first line began ‘a good glass in the bishop’s hostel’ and I worked from there”? Ack.

I need to go to the Post Office to buy envelopes. But there is a chance Julia might be online while I’m away. Hopefully isshe is she will read this and understand :o)