Hi all, Ive been set the challenge by one of my fellow Maths Ungraduates of cracking a code that I claimed was easy to break. Basically the Plaintext is put...
Hello Simon ... Probably because I am dumb, but I can't quite understand the explination you gave. But, trying to read between the lines, it sounds a bit like...
Andrew Bruno
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Nov 18, 2004 12:26 am
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... Hi Andrew, Well my explanation was a bit rushed, and not all that clear, first you will need to know how Matrices Multiply, and http://tinyurl.com/6w7yo...
Hello Simon ... Yes. I shall look at the link now and study it a bit more. Regards -- Andrew Bruno abruno@......
Andrew Bruno
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Nov 20, 2004 8:29 pm
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Hello Simon (What's happened to everyone else?) Well after reading the link you sent and breaking it down to a simple form and from what I understand: For any...
Andrew Bruno
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Nov 20, 2004 8:45 pm
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... From your description, this appears to be the Hill cipher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_cipher You could conceivably brute force the matrix, presuming...
Hello matt_crypto ... Struth! Just had a look at that link and it is written in some foreign language! ;-) I can't understand much of it at all. But I think...
Andrew Bruno
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Nov 22, 2004 5:12 am
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Thanks to everyone whos sent me their thoughts on this, it looks like Matt has found a version of it and will be passing the info to my friend. Ill try to...
For 250 years it has exercised the minds of theologians, historians and scientists. Charles Darwin was observed pondering its meaning, and Josiah Wedgwood...
Its all about the Quest not the Grail! ... and scientists. Charles Darwin was observed pondering its meaning, and Josiah Wedgwood spent many an hour attempting...
Hi, folks, I see that this group is still alive. Those of you who are into the history of code breaking will know that this group was formed last century, in ...
Hi Steve, I'm not sure if this constitutes "light" because I haven't solved it either. The description of using a cipher wheel with a specific alphabet...
Looked at this very briefly. He lays out the cipher alphabet used, presumably in the right order, and says the keytext is in the letter. If you brute forced...
Good to hear from you again, Alexandra. I actually tried using the entire text of the letter as a running key, but didn't find an entry. On one attempt, I...
Although we don't "see" much of each other, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Keep up the energy and the good work you are ...
Aurélio Moreira
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Dec 23, 2004 6:14 pm
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Looks like we're all starting to crawl out from under our rocks. Hello, Alexandra. Long time, no read. Hello to you again, Dave. I just took a serious look at...
Hi John, Stretch - Yawn - Blink -- waking up is so much fun! I put a copy of my program in the files section of this group. It's called Vig39Drags.exe. Its use...
Seems my last post got lost. I am thinking some cribs for the plaintext might be. "forty four" or "44" "seventy three" or "73" "degrees" or "degs" "point" or...
John: Yep. When you hit encrypt first, you merely encrypt the crib in the first position. Each subsequent hit of the drag button (or the <enter> key) moves the...
Dave: Thanks. I actually figured it out last evening after my post. Clever app. I've tried dragging just about every logical crib I can think of through this,...
Merry christmas all: From the tests I've run. I don't see any signs of it being a short keyword. I'm kinda thinking the keyword is the same length of the...
You may be right about the length of the keyword, but in analyzing bigrams, the most common factors are 2, 3, 5, and 7. Two and three are unlikely lengths for...
Most of the geocaches I've done where a cipher is involved, The plaintext would say something to the effect of: please go to N 44° 22.541 W 074° 11.673 in...
Well, some are real short. Yet some I've seen are pretty long. They contain other instructions beside just the GPs coordinates. So the length of the cipher...
