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...
Jan 1, 2001 11:24 am
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... wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, I wrote:- ... and Terry responded:- ... I'm not quite as much at sea as you may suppose. My 'oars' are my hill climber. Alas,...
Andy Bolden
conifer@...
Jan 1, 2001 3:15 pm
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Yes, I am working to about the same time scale as I got the book for Christmas. I have now done 1,2,4,3. If you are stuck on 3, I can remember all the...
selby.milner@...
Jan 1, 2001 7:05 pm
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Can you please forward this to Marc Leotard? Thanks Marc, I have down loaded your Playfairette s/sheet but it will not work. Says it can not be accessed....
Selby Milner
selby.milner@...
Jan 1, 2001 8:50 pm
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Selby, I solved S6 with Playfair.exe (part of Playfair.zip in the files section). It is a marvelous aid for doing the busy work as you try a classical solution...
Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:02 am
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Hi all, happy 2001, hope you all had good breaks. I hit stage 3 on Christmas Eve. I worked for about 2 hours or so and thought I'd made a breakthrough or two,...
akdavid@...
Jan 2, 2001 10:20 am
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Alexandra Thank you for your hapyy new year-century-milleneu wishes. The same to you. And better luck next time for the enigma-seeing chance. Aurélio Moreira ...
Aurélio Moreira
antauro@...
Jan 2, 2001 3:55 pm
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Thanks. I have downloaded playfair.zip but have not had much time, or success, as yet. (It does not seem to have a way of correcting mistakes, or am I...
Selby Milner
selby.milner@...
Jan 2, 2001 10:03 pm
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Recent discussion about downloadable files to solve Stage 6 have made it very obvious what sort of cipher it is. This was not obvious to me at first, and I...
Emma Glaisher
eglaisher@...
Jan 2, 2001 11:56 pm
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Emma, Sorry for the clue to Stage 6's cipher type. I'll be more circumspect in the future. In (somewhat whimpy) defense of my "leak", the cipher type is spread...
Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Jan 3, 2001 1:57 am
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In response to Emma's request that people not reveal the type of cipher, that had actually crossed my mind when I was a newcomer to this forum back in...
alexandra.dixon@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:23 am
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Emma, Since the cat's out of the bag on the cipher type for Stage 6, I thought you might appreciate an early observation (Dec '99) when I was a relative ...
Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:47 am
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Also in discussion we shouldn't be too pedantic and overlook the fact that several of the plaintext solutions reveal what type the next stage is anyway (and of...
ray.wood@...
Jan 3, 2001 8:45 am
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For those who like treasure hunts... (even if it is not *directly* related to cryptography) Have a look at Treasure Hunt 2001, a game by Cryo : www.th2001.com ...
jean-luc.nagel@...
Jan 4, 2001 8:28 am
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This reminds me of an on-line game called Aureum, also a search for a valuable gold treasure. It was meant to take four years, I believe, with several stages...
alexandra.dixon@...
Jan 4, 2001 4:14 pm
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Dear BBC radio 4 is currently serializing Arthur C Clarke's "2001, a space odyssey" as it's "book at bedtime". Last night, they got to the bit where Dr Floyd...
Terry Froggatt
TJFROGGATT@...
Jan 5, 2001 9:41 pm
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Reading the last chapter in TCB again i relise a problem how can Alice know it is Bob not Eve at the other end and the same problem for Bob, Eve could send his...
skukok@...
Jan 6, 2001 4:22 pm
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Simon, Photon cryptography is the stuff of which nightmares are made. However, a nice chap called Artur Ekert gave a talk last June in Oxford in which he ...
David Sutton
davidsutton@...
Jan 6, 2001 6:00 pm
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If I may ask a couple questions to all concerning Q. Cryptography. These are all very basic questions coming from my lack of understanding concerning the ...
cyphunk
mindmore@...
Jan 7, 2001 2:25 am
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Let me take a quick stab at your basic questions. Individual photons don't emit images of themselves as radio waves. Radio waves and light waves are COMPOSED...
Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Jan 7, 2001 5:15 am
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Emma, I feel that I am the one who should be apologising for being too open! The others were replying to my query. My excuse is just naivity!! I hope that...
selby.milner@...
Jan 7, 2001 7:39 am
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Thanks for the reply. I have d/loaded Playfair.exe and have had a lot of fun getting to grips with it. As you say you need quite a bit of practice. There...
selby.milner@...
Jan 7, 2001 7:52 am
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Dave, I have a few more questions concerning the implication of quantum crytography, 1. the cost how much would it cost for all of the equipment required, 2....
Simon Kilby
skukok@...
Jan 7, 2001 2:08 pm
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... I thought the following was in the files section but I don't seem to be able to see it scanning through the list quickly. So it must have been from one of...
Andy Bolden
conifer@...
Jan 7, 2001 5:06 pm
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Simon, Think of a photon as a tiny blob of vibrating energy that travels at the speed of light in a straight line forever (warped, perhaps, by space-time ...
Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Jan 7, 2001 5:26 pm
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... When I came to write something to the group back before Christmas I already knew that previous posts had made it fairly evident what sort of cipher it was...
Andy Bolden
conifer@...
Jan 7, 2001 5:54 pm
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Selby, I agree that trying cribs is the way gain entry into a Playfair cipher. Sometimes the crib is as simple as guessing identities for the most popular ...
Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Jan 7, 2001 5:56 pm
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Thanks very much. I have it. selby Llanddewi House ... From: Andy Bolden <conifer@...> To: <CipherChallenge@egroups.com> Sent: Sunday, January 07,...
Selby Milner
selby.milner@...
Jan 7, 2001 5:57 pm
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Hello Andy & Selby, Found it! The reference to Helen Gaines' Chapter XXI is in the LINKS area, probably because this takes up less of our space than putting a...
Terry Froggatt
TJFROGGATT@...
Jan 7, 2001 7:21 pm
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Everyone, First is anyone else stuck on S6 and want to work with me solving playfair the classic way i have a few contraditions in my 'plain'/cipher text at...
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