This is my first post to the list, and I too have Stages 1-4, with three taking a lot longer than it should have. However, after reading the archives (most of...
ianwebb_uk@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:00 pm
1091
***INDIRECT SPOILER WARNING*** space ... The codeword is probably in such a strange place so that you cannot use a crib, which is very easy for the previous...
Sandra Farchy
Burlow@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:26 pm
1092
... prime ... number ... lowest ... Yes, but a number with three as a factor isn't very prime, is it? Jack...
Sandra Farchy
Burlow@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:29 pm
1093
Is anyone else trying to solve stage 7? I think I can deduce the transposition key length, and indeed what the key is, but then I'm stuck. Can anyone help or...
Angus Walker
angus@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:56 pm
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Hi, I signed up about a week ago, and have been trawling through the digests until now. For posterity's sake, I have solved 1-4 and 6. I have a question about...
Hmm, Another one with the requisite intelligence to solve up to stage 6 but still unable to understand the "challenge" part in "CipherChallenge". In your...
John McLaughlin
John@...
Feb 1, 2000 2:41 pm
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... I fail to see how this could possibly spoil stage 6. Especially in the light of everything that already has been said about this stage in the archives...
Arno de Puij
synthesis@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:14 pm
1098
... I fail to see how this could possibly spoil stage 6. Especially in the light of everything that already has been said about this stage in the archives...
John McLaughlin
John@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:48 pm
1099
... Before I sign up, I'd like to know how the final matrix reduction is going to be done. To the best of my understanding, it cannot easily be parallelized. ...
mkudzin@...
Feb 1, 2000 4:04 pm
1100
... I figured he had a question about the answer key and enciphered his question *using* the key for no. 6. if that's the case, you'd still have to have the ...
Benjamin Lauer
rainypilgrim@...
Feb 1, 2000 4:08 pm
1101
... I fail to see how my message could have given anything away. It did not state the cipher used, the key to solve the stage, any codewords or any cribs. I...
gary.benson@...
Feb 1, 2000 4:36 pm
1102
... While I have no problem with this strategy, I'll point out that this is not quite accurate: this exchange gives solvers additional text in the same key,...
Jim Gillogly
jim@...
Feb 1, 2000 4:44 pm
1103
John is right to criticise, for a few reasons, but chiefly this one: Warning, spoiler follows . . . . . . . . . . . . . <space> . . . . . . . . . . . What are...
Sandy Macpherson
sandy@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:00 pm
1104
... Thanks for that. I hope that the item in question wasn't a clue; if it was then Mr Singh was being very surreal......
gary.benson@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:08 pm
1105
... From: Jim Gillogly [mailto:jim@...] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 5:44 PM To: CipherChallenge@onelist.com Subject: RE: [CipherChallenge] To those...
John McLaughlin
John@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:58 pm
1106
Hi just read the past few days posting, I`ve no aversion to setting up a group effort to crack stage 10. regards Joe BTW your email is shown on the site as is...
joe@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:11 pm
1107
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Rickard Troedsson
troed@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:11 pm
1108
Hi all, I have found that I cannot make Excel (97) do anything I want it to do. My latest enigma is how to make the contents of one box (a string of letters),...
Sandra Farchy
Burlow@...
Feb 1, 2000 10:42 pm
1109
Arno, John is right. It won't take very many messages in the key for Stage 6 to be posted before it becomes possible to begin recovery of the key from these...
Mike Boyle
mike@...
Feb 1, 2000 9:46 pm
1110
John, well, I was on your side until I read this but now I'm not sure whose side you're on ! Mike. At 18:58 2000-02-01 +0100, you wrote: [John McLaughlin] The...
Mike Boyle
mike@...
Feb 1, 2000 9:56 pm
1111
A simple way to get 1 character per cell is to open a text version of the file with Excel. Choose fixed width and delimit the field length to be one ...
TomJefries@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:30 pm
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... letters), transfer to a box per letter. ... whole of Stage 7 by hand....Arghhhh! ... I know of no Excel function to split a string into multiple cells. A...
Gish, David
Gish@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:49 pm
1113
I just had to tell someone that I've finally cracked stage 3. It certainly wasn't over a cup of coffee. Once I twigged what was going on, it was quite...
berginj@...
Feb 2, 2000 12:06 am
1114
I think excel has a MID or SUBSTR function, with parameters : 1) cell holding string 2) start character of substring (counting from 1, or possibly 0) 3) length...
JimE
jimem@...
Feb 2, 2000 12:31 am
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From: "Gish, David" <Gish@...> << Has anyone made progress on seven with anything except a hill-climbing (or GA) program? >> I didn't use a GA or...
Jeffrey Hill
71161.2761@...
Feb 2, 2000 1:10 am
1116
Put the ciphertext in A3. put this code in cells [A1-A(the textlength]: =MID($A$3,(ROW()),1) this formula is on my frequency analisis program on my website ...
onossis@...
Feb 2, 2000 2:46 am
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In a message dated 2/1/00 5:32:38 PM, TomJefries@... writes: << A simple way to get 1 character per cell is to open a text version of the file with Excel....
Lobert@...
Feb 2, 2000 3:51 am
1118
Jack, ... letters), transfer to a box per letter. if you have your string of letters in a text file, load this text file into Excel using Open/File. Then a...
Chris Card
chriscard@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:04 am
1119
Hello I seem to have caused a bit of a stir with my posting, so here is my defence. This could be construed as a spoiler to stage 6, but then again most of...
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