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...
Sep 1, 2000 10:14 am
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Much apology for burdening you all with something so egotistic and sort of off-topic as my dissertation, but just want to let yout know you were all thanked in...
Thomas A Martin
tosk_p10@...
Sep 1, 2000 12:07 pm
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Hello, I've solved stage 3 some weeks ago and I am now working on stage 5. On question on stage 3 left. By whom is the text written ? I've tried to find the...
gandolf
gandolf@...
Sep 1, 2000 12:42 pm
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Yesterday (1st. September), I attended the launch of PGP version 7.0 given by Network Associates, and very interesting it was too. Once those chaps in the...
David Sutton
davidsutton@...
Sep 2, 2000 8:55 am
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... Hi David, I agree totally - the place has an incredible atmosphere. Did you pick up on the fact that we poor non-US residents will only be allowed a...
Mark Sjollema
mark@...
Sep 2, 2000 9:43 am
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I was there too :) The talk was intresting, the guy describing PGP7 was funny, the free book was cool because I had been borrowing my friend's book. The 5...
Adam Brinley Codd
egroups@...
Sep 2, 2000 11:07 am
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... From: David Sutton <davidsutton@...> To: <CipherChallenge@egroups.com> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 9:55 AM Subject: [CipherChallenge]...
Mike Boyle
mike@...
Sep 2, 2000 8:12 pm
3933
Hello, Is there anybody who has the stage 9 key and wants to answer some questions of me about it in order to help me find the key? I have some ideas but to...
Sven Bovens
Sven.Bovens@...
Sep 3, 2000 11:17 am
3934
Good shot! but I won't help you : trying to guess the key is not a so easy process. you must guess enough bits for a brutr force effort being fast enough. but ...
Didier HALLÉP...
dhallepee@...
Sep 4, 2000 9:42 pm
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Does any one can give me some informations about what Schlussel and Schriftzeichen stand for in stage 8? I am confused how to use that with the emulator tools....
Laurent Anselme
Lrnt@...
Sep 5, 2000 4:49 pm
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... Laurent, You don't need to know the meaning of these things in order to solve Stage 8. Once you have solved it, you may find them useful, however. -- Best...
Peter Hugosson-Miller
hugge@...
Sep 5, 2000 5:06 pm
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Hi folks, Stage 9 and 10 seem to be some really interesting peace of cake as I can say so far but I wonder what the begin and end-statements as well as the...
mag@...
Sep 6, 2000 6:36 am
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... If you look back in the archives to the really early days (last November?) there is some discussion about this. Basically the cipher texts for stage 9 and...
Chris Card
ctcard@...
Sep 6, 2000 7:10 am
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There is a long article on WW2 code-braking in todays "Daily Telegraph" (Sept 6). I see that a 500 page technical report on Colossus is due to be released to...
A Channing
achanning@...
Sep 6, 2000 10:07 am
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<< "Claims that the British knew of Pearl Harbor through [code] JN25 but kept quiet to draw the Americans into the war are dismissed in the book". >> ...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Sep 6, 2000 12:49 pm
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Department of further unverifiable paranoid conjectures: The juiciest bit of Pearl Harbor fantasy of all: yes, the attack was devastating; almost all of the...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Sep 6, 2000 1:14 pm
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Hi Richard, thanks for your excellent synopsis of the debate on Pearl Harbour, UK & US conspiracy theory. I agree fully with your assessment, but there are...
Myke Stanbridge
mykestan@...
Sep 6, 2000 6:51 pm
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I'm a bit of a late starter by the look of it but I have finally solved stage 3. I think I know what the keyword is. The problem is that having decoded it...
Paul Ruddock
paul@...
Sep 6, 2000 9:33 pm
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... Paul -- Try using some of the original language in a search using the GOOGLE search engine on the internet. That usually worked for me. Dave McCord...
Dave McCord
damac@...
Sep 6, 2000 9:43 pm
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In a message dated 9/6/00 4:34:45 PM, paul@... writes: << Is there a method of using the good PL to search for the original text on the web >>...
lobert@...
Sep 6, 2000 9:50 pm
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Hi, ... I just used altavista and put some of the plaintext in quotes. This forces altavista to search for an exact match. Cheers, David 1,2,3,4,6,5,7 Visit...
david.carter
david.carter@...
Sep 7, 2000 9:45 am
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I have so far found copernic to be extremely useful in searching for the key texts. On one occassion even three words were enough for it to give me the whole...
mcooper@...
Sep 7, 2000 10:09 am
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the CipherChallenge group. File :...
CipherChallenge@egrou...
Sep 7, 2000 4:36 pm
3949
A question on simulating Enigma: I managed to set up an Excel workbook and write some macro procedures to simulate the Enigma cipher and implement Jim...
Dan Girard
Danjg7654321@...
Sep 7, 2000 6:34 pm
3950
... Is there any news on a starting date when this program(series) will be on Channel 4? All I know of is that it will be on tele this Autumn... I need to...
Daniel Kinnaer
Daniel.Kinnaer@...
Sep 7, 2000 7:25 pm
3951
I'm a newbie - what in the world is copernic? And how is it accessed? CV ... From: <mcooper@...> To: <CipherChallenge@egroups.com> Sent:...
Alan Hadad/Carol Vasc...
camelandbull@...
Sep 7, 2000 8:34 pm
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... procedures ... the ... information ... Both are corrrect. The notches are physically located at positions U and H. When the notches are engaged in the...
Geoff Sullivan
geoff@...
Sep 7, 2000 9:20 pm
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I telephoned Channel 4 a couple of days ago, and they told me they only announce programme details about 2 weeks ahead, so I plan to call every week until I...
David Sutton
davidsutton@...
Sep 7, 2000 9:40 pm
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In a message dated 9/7/00 3:36:40 PM, camelandbull@... writes: << I'm a newbie - what in the world is copernic? And how is it accessed? CV >> Check...