I know my track record isn't too good on this stage :-) but I really have cracked it now. I was all ready to write my own version of the CRIB5 crib checker and...
chris card
chriscard@...
May 1, 2000 7:02 am
2499
... Well, I sharpened my pencil, but nothing happened. -:) It seems again someone lost the enormous weight of the unsolved 5. And we, non-solvers, continue to...
Arjan van Mulukom
mulukom@...
May 1, 2000 7:19 am
2500
... Ah, yes... now I remember, thanks for digging that out, Terry. It's sad to think that I have achieved zero on this challenge since this posting, but I...
G H
gh01@...
May 1, 2000 7:27 am
2501
Thanks for the acknowledgement, Doug. And by the way, beautiful job on v. 3.0, particularly given the fact that my suggestion was just offered yesterday! Now,...
Stu Pollack
snpollack@...
May 1, 2000 7:57 am
2502
On Mon, 1 May 2000 07:15:37, CipherChallenge@egroups.com wrote ... Well, it's written in Clipper and is poorly commented, so I don't expect it to be of much...
Douglas Woodrow
dcwoodrow@...
May 1, 2000 10:10 am
2503
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR ONELIST'S CIPHER CHALLENGE GROUP This version (March 2000) contains answers to the following questions: 1) Where can I get an...
CipherChallenge@egrou...
May 1, 2000 10:43 am
2504
I'm a Clipper/VO developer and so would be very interested in seeing the source code. ... From: Douglas Woodrow <dcwoodrow@...> To:...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
May 1, 2000 12:12 pm
2505
After sitting back and digesting the messages about stage 5 for a while I decided to get back to basics and started working on the codebook (with the required...
tcannon@...
May 1, 2000 2:18 pm
2506
... [ ...] ... Douglas, Heh, ethics aside, you should've written the program to open up a TCP/IP connection back to yourself and send yourself all attempts...
Daniel McCarty
mcdan@...
May 1, 2000 3:17 pm
2507
to english readers.... In the Singh's explanation for the challenge of the french edition, the word hidden in each stage is called "mot secret" (secret word)....
SOUVERBIE Denis
denis.souverbie@...
May 1, 2000 4:14 pm
2508
Thanks, but sadly no-thanks I have heard of Clipper but have never seen or have any means of doing anything with it. Colin ... From: Douglas Woodrow...
Colin Gaskell
colin@...
May 1, 2000 6:01 pm
2509
Does anyone remember which message(s) had that list of possible keytexts for stage five? There's one on there somewhere that I want to check for some reason,...
Andrew Bayer
abayer@...
May 1, 2000 6:03 pm
2511
... Right. I was a bit lazy in coming up with the example. Isotope is a much better guess than isotype but would have taken more time to come up with a...
Rupp, Ed J
ed.rupp@...
May 1, 2000 8:01 pm
2512
My apologies to the group. The previous message was an accidental spoiler for Stage 4. It was intended as a private message for one member only. I have...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
May 1, 2000 8:07 pm
2513
... Just about anyone who's trying, if you get enough of it. As an example, look at the popular puzzle that keeps coming up: 26 = L O T A (where each letter...
Jim Gillogly
jim@...
May 1, 2000 8:24 pm
2514
[I'm nearly scared to send anything in here that would be taken as a spoiler!!!] <Sorry: off topic> I've received "The codebreakers" from D. Kahn, last week...
Fred Limouzin
fphenix@...
May 1, 2000 9:46 pm
2515
From: "chris card" <chriscard@...> Subject: Stage 5 I know my track record isn't too good on this stage :-) but I really have cracked it now. I was...
Didier HALLÉP...
dhallepee@...
May 1, 2000 10:50 pm
2516
On Mon, 1 May 2000 07:15:37, CipherChallenge@egroups.com wrote ... Hi Nigel, I'm not sure if this suits your requirement exactly, but the latest version (v3.1)...
Douglas Woodrow
dcwoodrow@...
May 1, 2000 11:52 pm
2519
Phil and all involved in this thread, Chuck's original statement was: "It's something that every Christian has memorized so you don't need to buy another book...
Phil Robinson
phile@...
May 2, 2000 10:22 am
2520
... Not quite, but I'll bet I'd be able to reconstruct a lot of passages from their initial letters! ... It's the only thorough treatment of historical...
Jim Gillogly
jim@...
May 2, 2000 5:17 pm
2521
... (white space) I'm not sure exactly what Denis means here as I did not post anything about this word (I did post something about the meaning of the first...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
May 2, 2000 5:20 pm
2522
Jim cites some nice counter-examples to the general notion that recognizing fragments of words is easier than recognizing acronyms (WYSIWYG, IMHO, AFAIK are...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
May 2, 2000 7:33 pm
2523
Phil, I deleted that message after realizing the discussion moved past the point made and into stage 5 texts(about 2 minutes later). I suspect, as someone else...
Kent Christiansen
kent@...
May 2, 2000 7:42 pm
2524
Hi everybody! I am a newbie to cryptology, but really enjoyed it so far. Got my (German) edition of TCB a week after Jim Gillogly et alii solved the first nine...
Michael Schwaiger
mik.gunn@...
May 2, 2000 8:06 pm
2525
Why not stuff Beale 1 and 3 into crib5.exe buy a spade and use the £10M to get the EFF mob to build Deep Factor. Jim...
james w brady
jimbrady@...
May 2, 2000 9:17 pm
2526
... I think the translation of '26 solicitors' should be '36 solicitors' (no, not because I have anything against solicitors, but because 26 has no 'e' in...
Angus Walker
eternity@...
May 2, 2000 9:48 pm
2527
... The recurrence of the number 26 (and 25) in _La Disparition_ is an important theme; the number wasn't arbitrary, and Adair had to have some way or...
Mark Cogan
marq@...
May 2, 2000 9:58 pm
2528
... Too late! I'm already camped out at a hotel in Virginia with my boots and shovel at hand ... ...though that's true, unfortunately I'm not down here on...
R. Mohan Srivastava
MoSrivastava@...
May 3, 2000 6:22 am
2529
Last night I cracked stage 4! I have to say it was a lot easier than 3 which took me ages until I found the right language (thanks Babelfish). Using Babbage's...
Steve Clark
steev@...
May 3, 2000 7:51 am
2530
... has ... I haven't read the book (yet), but I always thought that 26 solicitors is an allusion to the 26 alphabet letters. Thus, 36 does not make sense in...
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