<< i would just like to convey my excitement at having cracked stage 6.>> ... i stuck with the scheme i had, which was: 1) fitness function based on digraphs,...
the_piv@...
Jan 1, 2000 2:27 pm
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I've done the first four codes in the last few days, but number four still poses a problem for me. I have what I think is the plain text, which seems to be...
james
james@...
Jan 1, 2000 6:17 pm
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If you've correctly identified the plaintext language then you have correctly determined the key length n, but if the keyword or sections of the plaintext...
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kaplan@...
Jan 1, 2000 7:58 pm
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Thanks to Steve Scoggins, who provided the reference to Aristotle, "On Sophistical Refutations", which contains the following: "First we must grasp the number...
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kaplan@...
Jan 1, 2000 8:03 pm
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Hello Everyone I am sharing the wcount.exe with all of you who are working on decrypting stage5. I used Stephen Casey's single5.c utility as a reference and...
Steve Scoggins
steve@...
Jan 1, 2000 9:09 pm
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An example usage for wcount.exe is as follows: wcount keyfile > dumpfile.txt I compiled this application using VC++ for win32. So for non win32 systems it must...
Steve Scoggins
steve@...
Jan 1, 2000 9:20 pm
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greetings. i thought i'd throw around a few ideas about stage 5. these are not meant to be definitive conclusions based on hours of logical deduction, merely ...
the_piv@...
Jan 2, 2000 12:22 am
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Hi all A Happy New Millenium To All My Readers!!!! Some of you have mentioned "hillwalking and climbing". Is it a program usful for solving Playfair ciphers? ...
joe@...
Jan 2, 2000 12:54 am
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If my memory seves me right, I think the original Magna Carta can be seen at Warick Castle....
joe@...
Jan 2, 2000 12:59 am
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Stage5 Observations 1.) I believe the keyfile is a well known government type document which is relatively short in length similar to the Declaration of...
Steve Scoggins
steve@...
Jan 2, 2000 4:00 am
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I've been working on number 5 and wish I had more time to play around with it-- but unfortunately I have to go back to work on Monday. So I want to share some...
dbain@...
Jan 2, 2000 10:09 am
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... Try <http://www.bl.uk/diglib/magna-carta/>. Mind you, the handwriting is a bit difficult. FB...
Fred Bone
fred.bone@xxxx.xxxxx....
Jan 2, 2000 10:38 am
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hi all. b4 i start can i say that if u haven't finished stage3, reading this may give some of it away, even though i'm stuck!!! anyway, i do have a few...
onossis@xxxxxxx.xxx
Jan 2, 2000 12:45 pm
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Yes Italian I think so ... From: <onossis@...> To: <CipherChallenge@onelist.com> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 12:45 PM Subject: [CipherChallenge]...
Fiona Campbell-Howes
quinquireme@xxxxxxx.x...
Jan 2, 2000 1:07 pm
359
... You're right up there with someone I once heard misquote Leonardo DiCaprio thusly: Je suis le champignon du monde. (I am the mushroom of the world!) I was...
waltoney@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Jan 2, 2000 1:26 pm
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<< Stage 9>> I haven't seen much discussion about Stage 9, so I guess a lot of our members are confident of breaking that one. :-) From where I sit, just...
Jeffrey Hill
71161.2761@xxxxxxxxxx...
Jan 2, 2000 2:59 pm
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Would I be correct in assuming that the language of stage6 is not english? Indeed, since I don't have fancy software available to solve stage6 (shotgun...
Yann Baden
ybaden@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 2, 2000 3:02 pm
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Hello Daniel Reguarding Stage5 Yes, the Cousteau Society published a book titled "Albatross" in 1992. Albatross, The Cousteau Society; Simon & Schuster, NY...
Steve Scoggins
steve@...
Jan 2, 2000 3:48 pm
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... Before concluding that the text is not English, based on frequency data, consider that frequencies depend on the text. "Th" might not be the most common...
Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Jan 2, 2000 4:23 pm
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I'm sure it wasnt intended as an insult, but I cant see the justification in publicly accusing Lin of lying. Anyway, she asked me to vouch for her honesty,...
Andrew Plater
A.J.Plater@...
Jan 2, 2000 5:53 pm
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Hi. I have two more questions to add: Is the * a letter? What are the double-letters in Italian? Thanx, Mercedes ... From: <onossis@...> To:...
Mercedes Louro
mlouro@...
Jan 2, 2000 6:05 pm
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Yann Baden wrote: << Now, except if I am mistaken, the most frequent digraph is OC. The most frequent english digraph (according to M. Singh's appendix on...
moberdor@...
Jan 2, 2000 6:44 pm
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Mark, You are right about my mispelling of OC OC not being htht but thth. Somehow my excitement had blown it (although there is not much to be excited about at...
Yann Baden
ybaden@...
Jan 2, 2000 7:45 pm
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Also consider that these digraphs could cross a word or sentence boundry. For example, they could be part of the phrase "wiTH THe". -- Jim ... From: Dave Smith...
Jim Geist
jimge@...
Jan 2, 2000 8:36 pm
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Beale Internet Site Simon Singh listed a Roanoke, Virginia website in the "Further Reading" Internet Sites part of the book. The Mystery of the Beale Treasure ...
Steve Scoggins
steve@...
Jan 2, 2000 8:46 pm
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Maybe someone can find this book in a local library. I checked the local public library and the university library catalogs on the Internet and they do not...
Steve Scoggins
steve@...
Jan 2, 2000 9:08 pm
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You've only proven that OC is unlikely to be TH. But the frequency of HE is only slightly lower than that of TH, and in a small sample of text it is quite...
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kaplan@...
Jan 2, 2000 10:53 pm
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Hi, Got the book just before Christmas and so I've joined this list a bit late. Managed to get 1 & 2 quite quickly, then stage 4 after some faffing about. I...
ian@...
Jan 2, 2000 11:55 pm
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As many have observed, the ciphertext for stage 6 begins with OCOYFO and contains, toward the end, the sequence OYOFOCVKOCVKVWFO. Now the digraphs OC, OY and...
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kaplan@...
Jan 3, 2000 6:07 am
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hi all, i just posted a message and it hasn't seemed to appear, so i'll say it again i have three questions on stage3: 1)is the language spanish? if not, what?...
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