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Jeromy
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| The question about things I would have done differently will describe it in more detail |
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impulse
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Jeromy wrote: | | The question about things I would have done differently will describe it in more detail |
*sitting tight and waiting* |
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Esteed
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Man, and here I was hoping it was Faye that decided to kiss me. 
Seriously, you did a great job playing Maddy. Kudos! |
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QtheC
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmmm, I'm a little surprised you answered that question.
I was wrong, but I figured the real answer would be that it was you some of the time, and the actress some of the time, but it makes more sense that one person take care of it now that I think about it.
I was only in chat with Maddison there a couple of times... the one extended session was about trying to decrypt the message with the salt+water and there was a little prompting toward the solution asking us about cyphers, etc. that was a little revealing, shall we say, lol.
I bet you were screaming at the computer salt water ... NaCl H2O ..., yes Vignere, yes, ... come on people! |
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Jeromy
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| It was especially frustrating because there were multiple folks who claimed to already try NaClH2O. I was VERY afraid that the "Answer" was going to be dismissed and never returned to again. |
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deagol
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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I had your back man. Just wish I had gone on chat straight from work and let you all know I was getting somewhere. It would've saved everyone from a couple of stressful hours and a lot of trouble. Sorry.
Btw, did you choose autokeyed vigenere without knowing of that plaintext attach, or was it an intentional backdoor for us wacky decrypters? |
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QtheC
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Jeromy wrote: | | It was especially frustrating because there were multiple folks who claimed to already try NaClH2O. I was VERY afraid that the "Answer" was going to be dismissed and never returned to again. |
I'm not sure about other people, but I was using the wrong type of Vignere to decode with here:
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/index.php
There is "keyed Vignere" and "Vignere autokey."
I was trying to guess at passphrase + key solutions on the "keyed Vignere" page. I also tried a bunch of keys only on the "keyed Ceasar" page. I never tried "Vignere autokey." oops. |
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ignatzmouse
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| deagol wrote: | | Btw, did you choose autokeyed vigenere without knowing of that plaintext attach, or was it an intentional backdoor for us wacky decrypters? |
Yes, wacky decrypters need to know, was the use of the known-plaintext "hurry" a deliberate invite for cryptanalysis?
| QtheC wrote: | | I was trying to guess at passphrase + key solutions on the "keyed Vignere" page. I also tried a bunch of keys only on the "keyed Ceasar" page. I never tried "Vignere autokey." oops. |
Me too. D'oh!
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Jeromy
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| deagol wrote: | I had your back man. Just wish I had gone on chat straight from work and let you all know I was getting somewhere. It would've saved everyone from a couple of stressful hours and a lot of trouble. Sorry.
Btw, did you choose autokeyed vigenere without knowing of that plaintext attach, or was it an intentional backdoor for us wacky decrypters? |
I was curious if you could decrypt it if you knew a word in the phrase. I figured there was a way, but I didn't know what it was. I did keep the "Hurry!" in on purpose, but I never thought it would be so that hard cores like yourself would be able to untangle the cipher manually
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Hippie
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| ok well this doesnt make me any more or less wanting to have been in the chat... though i can understand some problem when many of you were in chat connecting to "maddi" |
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silverblue
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Hang on, what happened with the nicks in chat? I obviously wasn't there. 
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