... Hi Terry! No I wasn't at the Conference (would have liked it though) but I was there for real. And incidentally the economist ended up with one arm. Mike...
Mike Cowan
mikejcowan@...
Oct 1, 2000 8:55 am
4201
Hi, ... I think that also one of the things BP had going for them was an abundance of encrypted messages that they could check. They didn't just have to work...
Ian Buxton
ian@...
Oct 1, 2000 9:11 am
4202
... More info can be found on http://www.channel4.co.uk and check the listings. Just wished I could receive Ch4 here in Brussels... Daniel...
Daniel Kinnaer
Daniel.Kinnaer@...
Oct 1, 2000 2:23 pm
4203
Subject: How Colossus helped crack Hitler's codes ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003549412141223&rtmo=wAfMMQKb&atmo=gggggg3K &pg=/et/00/9/30/ncol30.html ...
Mike Boyle
mike@...
Oct 1, 2000 8:39 pm
4205
... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003549412141223&rtmo=wAfMMQKb&atmo=gggggg3K &pg=/et/00/9/30/ncol30.html ... Mike Boyle 1243657...
Mike Boyle
mike@...
Oct 1, 2000 9:18 pm
4206
Donald Mitchie announced GCHQ's decision in Cambridge at the end of June to the British Society for the History of Mathematics. It had just been made a couple...
David Sutton
davidsutton@...
Oct 2, 2000 6:10 am
4207
... Well, getting the ciphers without the book will be quite unuseful, unless you're a cipher wizard and know every kind of cipher... And think about the great...
SALUDEN JEAN-FRANCOIS...
Jean-Francois.Saluden...
Oct 2, 2000 6:11 am
4208
... In yesterday's (1 Oct) "Observer" newspaper, there was an article about the Cipher Challenge and a bit of a puff for the Channel 4 series:...
chris card
ctcard@...
Oct 2, 2000 7:08 am
4209
How BP broke Stage 8 ******************** Or perhaps it would be better titled how "Stage 8 broke the Turing Bombe" as the BP Bombe does not come out top in...
Frode Weierud
Frode.Weierud@...
Oct 2, 2000 7:30 am
4210
Daniel (and all), Simon Singh was on British BBC Radio 4 a few moments ago, in "Start The Week". A shortened version of this programme will be on Radio 4 from...
Terry Froggatt
TJFROGGATT@...
Oct 2, 2000 9:09 am
4211
Being very lazy and not the worlds best copy typist, can anybody help with the texts of the Cipher Challenge. Only recently bought the book and have managed...
tomw@...
Oct 2, 2000 10:07 am
4212
Hi Tom, have you considered scanning them in? If ask one of us politely to email the ciphertext to you as it appears in the book, like Stages three and seven...
Myke Stanbridge
mykestan@...
Oct 2, 2000 10:16 am
4213
... Have a look in the Files section ... Chris This must be a FAQ, but where's the FAQ? Oh, in the Files section :-( ...
Chris Card
ctcard@...
Oct 2, 2000 10:17 am
4214
Look under Files on this site, and its about the third one down. Fergal...
fergal.macalister@...
Oct 2, 2000 1:01 pm
4215
I just had a look at the program details on channel 4 (http://www.channel4.com/listings/summary.cfm?program_id=856336 ...
chris card
ctcard@...
Oct 2, 2000 1:49 pm
4216
Frode: An excellent analysis. Thanks. For those of you who don't want the stage spoiled for you, I suggest you don't read the message and, in fact, I will...
lobert@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:08 pm
4217
A file containing all the ciphers is available in the files section at egroups. Cheers, David Gish...
Gish, David
gish@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:27 pm
4218
... This is not quite correct. Jim's paper was not available in an electronic format for download via the Internet when the Code Book was written, however, it...
Frode Weierud
Frode.Weierud@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:44 pm
4219
... Or SS knew of other methods, or expected that people working on cracking the Enigma would develop methods of their own, e.g. working bombe implementations....
Gunnar Andersson
gunnar@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:58 pm
4220
In a message dated 10/2/00 10:12:57 AM Central Daylight Time, gunnar@... writes: << In fact, Stage 8 can be solved without assuming any cribs to be...
lobert@...
Oct 2, 2000 3:46 pm
4221
Hello all kind and thoughtful people. Out of topic : Have been running syntax, grammar and sentence constructions looking for a footprint so as to identify...
tokaok
tokaok@...
Oct 3, 2000 6:42 am
4222
I'll probably get flamed for this, so I apologise in advance. Those of you who feel some affinity for Bletchley Park may be as angry as I was when I read the...
David Sutton
davidsutton@...
Oct 3, 2000 8:11 am
4223
Well it's now October 3rd in Australia and Great Britain, and there's been no announcement on The Cipher Challenge Home Page ...
Chris Jones
chris.jones@...
Oct 3, 2000 9:18 am
4224
Will some kind person please email me privately the solution to this Stage 5. ...and before those of you who have decided that I shouldn't do this jump on the...
fergal.macalister@...
Oct 3, 2000 12:30 pm
4225
Hi Chris, nothing yet from SS. My signed receipt came back, but with a scribble that's impossible to read! Oh well... Regards, Myke....
Myke Stanbridge
mykestan@...
Oct 3, 2000 7:23 pm
4226
... Do you insist on "deserving"? Simon's been in contact with us, and before long something will be on the official website. -- Jim Gillogly Hevensday, 12...
Jim Gillogly
jim@...
Oct 3, 2000 7:31 pm
4227
Hi Jim, insist on deserving - not at all. I have no idea when he 'signed' for other offerings, and don't know if I'm a real deserving competitor or not. You...
Myke Stanbridge
mykestan@...
Oct 3, 2000 7:46 pm
4228
Well I'm confused. I take it Myke was either part of Jim's Stage 9 team (deserving part of the £1,000), or he's recently submitted a Stage 10 solution...
Gish, David
gish@...
Oct 3, 2000 8:05 pm
4229
The babelfish link on the links page should point to: http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn I know because I'm still trying to translate something from...
Keith Blow
keith@...
Oct 3, 2000 8:07 pm
4231
No, not _this game, my Game this weekend. Trying not to be either voluminous or multitudinous, I'll say only this: the game is over; my team finished 4th of 19...
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