... Hi. I Don't know what to think about this. The French edition mentions a 10,000 pounds prize. And this edition was released about december 1999. What about...
SALUDEN JEAN-FRANCOIS...
Jean-Francois.Saluden...
Mar 1, 2000 8:20 am
1431
It occurred to me that Thomas Beale is sometimes referred to as Thomas Jefferson Beale, (For some people this has been a cause in making them think that it is...
Arno de Puij
synthesis@...
Mar 1, 2000 11:31 am
1432
It occurred to me that Thomas Beale is sometimes referred to as Thomas Jefferson Beale, (For some people this has been a cause in making them think that it is...
Arno de Puij
synthesis@...
Mar 1, 2000 11:32 am
1433
It occurred to me that Thomas Beale is sometimes referred to as Thomas Jefferson Beale, (For some people this has been a cause in making them think that it is...
Arno de Puij
synthesis@...
Mar 1, 2000 11:29 am
1434
Chuck, See the explanations of phi and IC at http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/coding/379/lesson2.htm Whether you calculate phi or use some other measure...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Mar 1, 2000 2:08 pm
1435
I'm coming late to the discussion of this stage, but the estimate of 10^6 keys/sec agrees with the outcome of the DES-III challenge in Jan 1999. In that event...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Mar 1, 2000 2:26 pm
1436
Not a spoiler, just a statement of fact. Yesterday you said that you found all 64 cells used. In an earlier post I think it was you that mentioned relatively...
Gary Warzin
garyw@...
Mar 1, 2000 2:45 pm
1437
Apologies if this has been floated before (I read up to Archive 60 or so and then got too busy with earning a living for a while). As I have progressed through...
Nigel Fitchard
nigel.fitchard@...
Mar 1, 2000 3:21 pm
1438
Im only recently subscribed to this list but have been reading with interest as Im only up to stage 3 and having troubles ;-0 ... Although Im not up to this...
keith banthorpe
keith.banthorpe@...
Mar 1, 2000 3:28 pm
1439
... don't know about famous authors named Simon, haven't really had a chance to even start ecoddeing(justy got book) but I read Fermat's Enigma (his other ...
Julie
theredperil@...
Mar 1, 2000 2:51 pm
1440
<< The contest rules in the back of the US edition state that it is open to Canadian and US residents only. So all those UK and Rest of the World solutions...
Jeffrey Hill
71161.2761@...
Mar 1, 2000 4:08 pm
1441
David Plass@CONTEXT 03/01/2000 08:18 AM ... HOLY ^&%^&%^ I'M WRONG! I'm not reading DOWN the columns I'm still reading ACROSS the columns. NO wonder the...
dplass@...
Mar 1, 2000 4:18 pm
1442
... This restriction looks like the one for any products you buy in Amrica or Canada: you are not able to sell it outside those two countries (Am i wrong ?)....
Jean-Baptiste Yunes
Jean-Baptiste.Yunes@...
Mar 1, 2000 4:41 pm
1443
Hi All, ... I don't know if it's usefull to follow Simon Singh tracks to solve stage 5. May be. There is Two books: - Fermat's Last Theorem (Simon Singh:...
Gilles Brochier
Gilles.Brochier@...
Mar 1, 2000 4:26 pm
1444
<lurker mode/OFF> I am one of the four in the survey who have completed stage 5. All the hints you need have been posted in the archives. Read them and think...
Ian Cooke
IanMCooke@...
Mar 1, 2000 6:09 pm
1445
From: "Nigel Fitchard" <nigel.fitchard@...> << So what if Singh has deliberately made Stage 9 almost unsolveable and Stage 10 actually _impossible_ to...
Jeffrey Hill
71161.2761@...
Mar 1, 2000 6:27 pm
1446
Well, you're about to be deluged with e-mails and importuned for more hints, so let me simply congratulate you! ... From: Ian Cooke <IanMCooke@...> To:...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Mar 1, 2000 6:44 pm
1447
... I add my congratulations to Richard's. How many stages have you solved? ... There are (at present) 113 digests filled with wide speculation on stage 5, if...
Gish, David
gish@...
Mar 1, 2000 7:54 pm
1448
I've recently had some trouble sending postings to the re-vamped OneList site, and I see that several other people have had similar trouble. I always compose...
Terry Froggatt
TJFROGGATT@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:55 pm
1449
... Arno: When I first read the specification of DES, a couple of weeks ago, my reaction was the same as yours: all of those permutations which are so tedious...
Terry Froggatt
TJFROGGATT@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:56 pm
1450
Greetings! I've been puzzling over Dr. Singh's challenge for a couple of months now and catching up with the discussion on this list for a couple of weeks. So...
Michael - Shafer
shafermi@...
Mar 1, 2000 9:29 pm
1451
... Hash: SHA1 This is my first post to the list, but let me say that I have found the discussions so far informative. I just finished Stage 4 today. Could...
Jason Jenkins
JenkinsJB@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:01 pm
1452
... Wrong!!! ... Right!!! See http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/. They have a lot of info about prime numbers. Regards. Paulo Mendes....
Paulo Mendes
pssm@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:09 pm
1453
... My own impression is quite to the contrary. So far no stage has called for more than (about) 1 minute of actual computing time on my PII/233. For example,...
Jan Willem Stumpel
jw.stumpel@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:16 pm
1454
... Hash: SHA1 I managed to find the translation I was looking for, but now I seem to have another problem. The portion of the plaintext that reveals the...
Jason Jenkins
JenkinsJB@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:54 pm
1455
In message <4.2.0.58.20000301170134.00a51350@...>, Jason Jenkins <JenkinsJB@...> writes ... Try www.google.com or download a free...
John Wood
john@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:55 pm
1456
In a message dated 2/29/00 8:27:20 PM, paulk01@... writes: << Does anyone else find the response times from Onelist to be extremely slow? Worst I have...
lobert@...
Mar 2, 2000 12:08 am
1457
... Ian, I'm not doubting your veracity, but we've already seen one "solution" to stage 5 that didn't pan out. The solver had uncertainties that turned out to ...
Gish, David
gish@...
Mar 2, 2000 12:10 am
1458
The code word is in a different language from that of the rest of the plaintext, but it decrypts correctly along with the rest of the text if your solution is...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Mar 2, 2000 12:38 am
1459
From: Jan Willem Stumpel <jw.stumpel@...> << I think Mr. Singh has 'rigged' the Challenge so as to make it solvable by amateurs/individuals, without...