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5300	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@yahoo...	Mar 1, 2001 11:54 am
5301	Has anyone read "Between Silk and Cyanide" by Leo Marks? Would you recommend it? John Lobert...	lobert@...	Mar 3, 2001 2:57 am
5302	John, Absolutely. If you go to http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007100396/o/qid=983605546/sr=8-1/0 26-7260456-6506010 and read the second review,...	David Sutton davidsutton@...	Mar 3, 2001 7:53 am
5303	John, Attached are the two documents I mentioned earlier. Regards David Notice ... Top WWII code cracker dies By: Lucy Sherriff Posted: 23/01/2001 at 17:15 GMT...	David Sutton davidsutton@...	Mar 3, 2001 10:58 am
5304	John, I read "Betyween Silk and Cyanide" about a year and a half ago. I couldn't put it down until I'd finished (well, I did put it down to eat and sleep). ...	Dave Smith dlsmith@...	Mar 3, 2001 3:42 pm
5305	David and Terry: Thanks for your responses re the book and Marks himself. I will read it. John Lobert [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...	lobert@...	Mar 4, 2001 3:22 am
5306	John I've bought the book and I'm reading it. Although I've just gone through some 200 pages of it, I cannot say I'm a big fan of Leo Marks writing style. I'm...	Aurélio Moreira antauro@...	Mar 5, 2001 3:54 pm
5307	One of my friends has managed to get his hands onto a program (virus?) that can make any mail seem to come from any address the mail looks identical to a mail ...	Simon Kilby skukok@...	Mar 7, 2001 11:11 am
5308	... There's nothing new about this - you can do it with Outlook Express. Select Tools - Accounts - Properties. Whatever you put as the email address is where...	Mark S Peace mark.s.peace@...	Mar 8, 2001 6:30 pm
5309	Not much notice but may be of interest. "Dr. Mark Baldwin - 'Codebreakers' Cirencester College Gloucestershire Thurs 22 March 7:30 PM Ł7 An entertaining,...	jimbrady@...	Mar 21, 2001 5:34 pm
5310	I feel like a late-comer to a party that ended hours ago. A close friend gave me a copy of TCB as a gift this past Christmas. Imagine my disappointment when I...	thomas_l_harmon@...	Mar 22, 2001 5:04 pm
5311	Tom, I'm glad to see that someone is still at it ... the Cipher Challenge, and this group, were a source of great intellectual pleasure and companionship to...	Richard Kaplan kaplan@...	Mar 22, 2001 9:05 pm
5312	Tom, I have to endorse Richard's appraisal that the Cipher Challenge was a source of great intellectual pleasure and companionship. As with most intellectual ...	Dave Smith dlsmith@...	Mar 22, 2001 10:01 pm
5313	Hi, everybody (Nice to hear you once more, Richard) Fine job, Thomas. Now, you know why so many people have enjoyed the challenge ! However, stage 8 by hand...	Didier HALLĂ‰P... dhallepee@...	Mar 23, 2001 10:00 am
5314	I think it would be funny to have news about our friends of the Challenge Are they still having fun or activities related to ciphers? Do they attack another...	Didier HALLĂ‰P... dhallepee@...	Mar 23, 2001 10:26 am
5315	... There are two weaknesses in the key that I know of, one of which making the problem within reach also with moderate computing power. / Gunnar...	Gunnar Andersson gunnar@...	Mar 23, 2001 11:04 am
5316	Gunnar, (1) I assume that Didier was referring to the known area of non- randomness in the middle of the key. You mention below a second weakness in the key....	Richard Kaplan kaplan@...	Mar 23, 2001 1:45 pm
5317	... There are at least two more weakness in S10: * DES instead of 3DES. * One of {p,q}+-1 is smooth. I think it was p+1 or q+1 and that it was smooth enough...	Gunnar Andersson gunnar@...	Mar 23, 2001 1:52 pm
5318	* One of {p,q}+-1 is smooth. I think it was p+1 or q+1 and that it was smooth enough for Pollard p+1 to give the factorization of N. Unfortunately, we only...	Richard Kaplan kaplan@...	Mar 23, 2001 2:17 pm
5319	Nice to hear from you all again!, ... That's the biggy of course - Jim G must have kicked himself! ... I remember some discussion about this, and although I...	ctcard@...	Mar 23, 2001 3:27 pm
5320	... Thorbear made a ballpark estimate that it was within reach. I don't know if he ever completed the factorization this way though. / Gunnar...	Gunnar Andersson gunnar@...	Mar 23, 2001 3:41 pm
5321	In a message dated 3/23/01 4:27:21 AM Central Standard Time, ... Most of us are still subscribed to the group, although some moved from daily emails to...	lobert@...	Mar 23, 2001 6:17 pm
5322	... I remember waking a few mornings ago to hear that the British had an Enigma maachine in their possession as early as 1923. It was bought/obtained at a ...	Charles Coultas charles@...	Mar 24, 2001 8:08 am
5323	Hi all, I think the same goes for me as for John; still listening in but also reading the odd book. Currently on 'Enigma - the battle for the code' by Hugh...	Ian Buxton ian@...	Mar 24, 2001 8:39 am
5324	Hi, forgot to say congratulations to Tom Moloney-Harmon on getting through to stage 8 with minimal help, I think that's very impressive! Ian B...	Ian Buxton ian@...	Mar 24, 2001 8:43 am
5325	I'm still plugging away at cryptograms. I've solved a few previously unsolved ones since the Cipher Challenge, including a diary, an unknown shorthand, and a...	Jim Gillogly jim@...	Mar 24, 2001 8:50 am
5326	In a message dated 3/24/01 2:51:04 AM, jim@... writes: << Looking forward to Simon Singh's talk at the ACA Convention in Denver next August. >> Not sure...	lobert@...	Mar 24, 2001 6:22 pm
5327	Jim wrote: < Looking forward to Simon Singh's talk at the ACA Convention in Denver next August. > For those who can't make it to Denver in August, or who would...	Dave Smith dlsmith@...	Mar 24, 2001 6:49 pm
5328	Hi all, anyone who plans a visit to the CeBIT computer fair, which currently takes place here in Hannover/Germany should not miss a special show on the history...	ralf.nuttelmann@...	Mar 24, 2001 9:46 pm
5329	Speaking of these, have any of the problems in Gaines with no answers been solved? Andrew Walker...	Andrew John Walker ajw01@...	Mar 26, 2001 12:49 am

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