So have you presented the answer or is this apparent mess
really something of mathematical importance?

[QUOTE=davar55;179635]So have you presented the answer or is this apparent mess
really something of mathematical importance?[/QUOTE]

The answer was implicitly posted by another poster. Who says things need to have mathematical importance in the puzzles section?

I eagerly await your reply in 2012

[quote=Orgasmic Troll;179837]The answer was implicitly posted by another poster. Who says things need to have mathematical importance in the puzzles section?

I eagerly await your reply in 2012[/quote]

Assuming all things go on as they are going now,
the anticipation has certainly started.
But all the way to 2012 with an unscrambled cypher?
That's not reasonable.
However, not being a being of infinite wisdom, I wouldn't want to
tell you what to do.

[quote]So have you presented the answer or is this apparent mess really something of mathematical importance? [/quote]I saw no rules here that puzzles have to be mathematically based.


[quote=Orgasmic Troll;161662]IDK YDJZIUR PBL UVZKTJST JS Z XLVIBLLBH SQ QMS HJLIKQ SJ ESZU; SP IS CDBD JIL PLB ISKQ YJDZUIR, IDK EBVR CVLUF JDDOB KZDB IKD DSOFJDXD.[/quote]


It could be a letter-for-word cipher. "IDK" can be "I Don't Know".

It could also be a code used during The Civil War. It can also be Enigma.

I was always fascinated by this stuff...

:smile:

[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_cipher[/URL]

I see that "4sigma" on your other forum solved the cypher,
and also that you subsequently gave an "enormous" hint.
You might want to "inform" us too.
I'll be curious until 2012.
And not a second more :)

Give this a try. Below are the characters used:

[quote]ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.,?![/quote]Below is the ciphered text.

[quote]UieOOYBi9Lz0P9rYIsUSV.U,ai.F6iViyOVQKxR Y0rvAiyEQLOoJaxuriL1cI9YOlJ?xLfFLL81f1QLWzPFM,lS81BiQl 71o719SOT9vUYyC2JjSh14Fh, ,y tJMiVLJFVf9qGJwLM,lSOLQhc.0jSJWFL1KOI1 Y 0xo71IWyhF!O[/quote]It took a little time to get this working. Encoding is easy. It is the decoding that can be hard. It does work, quite well.

:smile:

[QUOTE=storm5510;193399]Encoding is easy. It is the decoding that can be hard.[/QUOTE]

One would hope so.

[quote=Orgasmic Troll;193453]One would hope so.[/quote]

...and continuing to debug and making adjustments accordingly.

Same text and keyword:

[quote]JC2.f 7GD9BttOS3,e5Rx.WA129 G.8RyRd.fR2IAc6MIRP37SG9UZ9SxB0Gp.xGpe.ofhDk7GPI7fWQn.tBxMi.,CxZHePt.hSfm.lC7eH.nbRc6eF.
ZWtBAUQl.,fEhl sAgtA e 7,HB7CPA,BqS6GI.IGIBz9Cn9vF.iT5B0GpA5,Zgx2,.GGN 5w.y9hGC7eHeLZWQtBRh2ClBvCx.SBBUP G.YRHUm75RXB
G7TvfOU5ZtXQ9!37OzG8 5B.2AcCCP 5S0C5Pt29hlGN 5B0 vZBAeM6M7BGGI.pP,UAQSBLCP.4RiPUBj9B n.1B7RlA,AQWl IgHk7TvQUntOxGxe5
.Z.49SxB0Gp.2 5?Z.3vF.mC5B0RlN[/quote]Hint: March 4, 1861

[quote=storm5510;193512]Hint: March 4, 1861[/quote]
I guess the plaintext is:[quote=Abraham Lincoln]I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.[/quote](or some minor variation thereof)
Now, as for how you encrypted it, I haven't even tried to find out! :grin:

[quote=Mini-Geek;193513]I guess the plaintext is:(or some minor variation thereof)
Now, as for how you encrypted it, I haven't even tried to find out! :grin:[/quote]

Nice try. You're warm.

Same text and key word.

[quote] D,GGUjB7.d04U.61TQ3H5GEcM djlGhHfHYGUH ?cmC bH11B6pdH.dI4f!77G577XXTVgMyB71hBYE,YXUM4 PG ,5taX,4Og6Y0Gs,BQaOYEHmCQtG
75GvBTMczOQXyaVBXaco dgQjbGHYB73T 4Hm4Ixf7iTBodj9cN!Gb4EfB6Ete06z44xsaGh,8d0HBgZj0H 7bj3H0VBIlHPY3,rG7yoHcWFjYQzGx
3H06Xy6iBya
bH1T0VmjXjBBHyBfpBR4cC7,B4ayTGlH,4cm7jwy3iwsaE0HyjlGb4EfBYE,YXUgQHe47GYHfde0.m4HDGEib,ldH.dI4Bwf7H513HT9cTH,Cj.Gb4E,
0QdgY4P3vQBQHcH.Xc0[/quote]Hint: Arlington

I've worked on this for a while now. I had to get away from prime numbers, except for running P95. Crypto has been a bit of a passion for a long time. Most are for files, using the entire character set. Not so many do plain text. I did this only to see if I could make it work, and when it did, I made it more and more complex.

:smile:

Don't look at this too hard. :grin:

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".ti ]peeb[ dluoc I ]peeb[ a saw rae ym fI"[/quote]School yards and lavatories: Such high quality education.