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...
Sep 1, 2001 12:03 pm
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The Serendipity of Science. 9.00 PM BST, BBC Radio 4, Wed 5 Sept. A new 3-part series about the happy accidents that have led to revolutionary discoveries in...
Terry Froggatt
TJFROGGATT@...
Sep 4, 2001 9:57 am
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Hey, Serendipity is my "nom" in the National Puzzlers League. How .... serendipitous! Alexandra...
alexandra.dixon@...
Sep 4, 2001 4:33 pm
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... And the BBC website can't spell phosphorus either ;->...
Fred Bone
fred.bone@...
Sep 5, 2001 5:25 pm
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Terry wrote: strange glows - from phosphphorous to will-o'-the-wisps. Fred replied: And the BBC website can't spell phosphorus either ;-> Sorry about that,...
Terry Froggatt
TJFROGGATT@...
Sep 5, 2001 9:16 pm
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Does anyone know what happened to this? I haven't been able to access the website for quite some time. John Lobert...
John Lobert
lobert@...
Sep 5, 2001 9:34 pm
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Same complaint here!!! Been trying to access the site for some time now... Hriday....
Hriday Balachandran
hriday@...
Sep 6, 2001 3:29 am
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... Me too. I haven't even been able to get a Ping response. Regards, Dave...
Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Sep 6, 2001 3:59 am
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David Sutton wrote to Terry Froggatt on 31/08/01 Re: [CipherChallenge] Bletchley Park News : August 2001 Terry, All other things being equal I plan to go May...
Terry Froggatt
TJFROGGATT@...
Sep 7, 2001 8:42 pm
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Hello: Does anyone know how Queen Mary of Scotts received the key to decrypt and encrypt messages? Simon Singh never explains how the key was transported. ...
Ali Hamidian
hamidian@...
Sep 8, 2001 11:02 pm
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In a message dated 9/8/01 6:03:13 PM, hamidian@... writes: << Hello: Does anyone know how Queen Mary of Scotts received the key to decrypt and encrypt...
lobert@...
Sep 8, 2001 11:40 pm
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Well, obviously she would need a key - she thought the cipher was unbreakable. So if she thought that she herself could break it, then how could she trust that...
Andrew Pamment
apamment@...
Sep 9, 2001 1:07 am
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In a message dated 9/8/01 8:51:26 PM, apamment@... writes: << Well, obviously she would need a key - she thought the cipher was unbreakable. So if she...
lobert@...
Sep 9, 2001 3:08 am
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... Ok, I understand what you are saying, but if Mary was foolish, she therefore would not have realized she could use frequency analysis. So, she would need ...
Andrew Pamment
apamment@...
Sep 9, 2001 3:31 am
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... Andrew, Singh mentioned that the cipher was popular amongst Catholics at the time (I can't remember if this is in the book or if it was in the TV series.) ...
Mark Murphy
bigdog@...
Sep 9, 2001 8:12 am
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... That makes sense. Thankyou. Andrew...
Andrew Pamment
apamment@...
Sep 9, 2001 9:22 am
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In a message dated 9/8/01 10:33:13 PM, apamment@... writes: << So the question remains, how was this privileged information gotten to mary queen of...
lobert@...
Sep 9, 2001 3:03 pm
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THINKING OF YOU...
jimbrady@...
Sep 13, 2001 12:56 am
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Thank you, Jim. Your support, and that of other people of good will around the world, means a great deal to us here in New York. The memory and the images of...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Sep 13, 2001 1:13 am
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I'd like to join in, if I may, just to add a word of solidarity to all of you co-members of CipherChallenge who live in the United States. I believe that deep...
Aurélio Moreira
antauro@...
Sep 13, 2001 5:34 pm
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Many thinkings to our american friends We are on your side in this terrible time Didier...
Didier
dhallepee@...
Sep 13, 2001 11:49 pm
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I'm not sure how I got into this thing but after reading this below that means a lot. Here in Chicago were not even holding our summer street fairs . Sporting...
Rick McCarthy
rick119@...
Sep 14, 2001 2:00 am
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I got this too, from someone in the National Puzzlers League. Apparently it was written in 1973 during the gasoline crisis in America. Alexandra ... From:...
alexandra.dixon@...
Sep 14, 2001 3:37 am
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Dear Cipher Challengers, Please forgive the off-topic post but this is the largest email list I know of... I received this forwarded from, it seems, about 100...
alexandra.dixon@...
Sep 14, 2001 7:41 pm
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For those seeking some relief from terrible recent events, in the form of a new intellectual challenge, I reproduce here a small section of an article in The...
Tim Roberts
t.roberts@...
Sep 15, 2001 3:02 am
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... Looks to me like initials of words, based on a totally eyeballed frequency count. It might be worth running some standard Gutenberg works through a filter...
Jim Gillogly
jim@...
Sep 15, 2001 3:33 am
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Dear friends, I hope this will also spread over Europe and many people here showing solidarity with the Americans. Still do not know what 2 say how 2 express...
MAG
mag@...
Sep 15, 2001 7:03 am
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Please dont send any more emails to this address. ... From: "MAG" <mag@...> To: <CipherChallenge@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday,...
Katharine Pratt
georges@...
Sep 17, 2001 9:17 am
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Hello Cipher Challengers, The sad events in the USA last week have added fuel to the debate as to whether governments should have right-of-access to all ...
Terry Froggatt
TJFROGGATT@...
Sep 17, 2001 12:17 pm
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... On a less depressing note, on Friday BBC Knowledge are showing "Breaking the Code" followed by a debate chaired by SS: "The Turing Test: To coincide with...