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This is a test... (challenge)
My head. | Feb. 1st 2013 | Mad Dawgg

Posted on 02/01/2013 1:34:53 AM PST by Mad Dawgg

This is a test... OK it is a challenge. I know there are multitudes of smart people who lurk and post here on FR. Well I've been dabbling in Ciphers and Codes.

Why? Because a number of years back someone gave me the Cryptonomicon as a gift. It is a novel by Neal Stephenson. The story is hilarious yet based on actual historic fact. Places like Bletchley Park and people like Alan Turing loom large in the novel. If you are not familiar with the name or place it was where England broke the Enigma Code of the Germans in World War 2.

Anyhow after I read the book several times I got the cipher bug and have been messing around with them to see if I could make a simple cipher/code that is hard to break.

So you will hopefully find below my first public attempt. Have at it!

Good luck!


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: code; cryptonomicon
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1 posted on 02/01/2013 1:35:05 AM PST by Mad Dawgg
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"....thanks, it werk, it got the snot goo out of my morning eyes"

2 posted on 02/01/2013 1:40:34 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Well, OK then...

(But your answer is incorrect) ;-)

3 posted on 02/01/2013 1:42:52 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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Drink....Your....Ovaltine.


4 posted on 02/01/2013 1:44:17 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Can’t help you with the code, but wanted to express my $.02 on how great a book that is. Also the trilogy by him: The Baroque Cycle. Not an easy read, but a truly masterful opus.


5 posted on 02/01/2013 1:44:28 AM PST by expat1000
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To: Safetgiver
"Drink....Your....Ovaltine."

I came very close to riffing that for the first test but I knew Freepers would pounce on that one like a Chicken on a June bug!

6 posted on 02/01/2013 1:49:16 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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“The internet, where the men are real men, the women are real men, and the children are the FBI.”


7 posted on 02/01/2013 1:54:17 AM PST by 867V309
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8 posted on 02/01/2013 2:15:53 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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Well your compass is pointing in the general direction but you are not correct. ;-)


9 posted on 02/01/2013 2:21:01 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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10 posted on 02/01/2013 2:22:12 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Is the third glyph the letter “E” ?


11 posted on 02/01/2013 2:26:52 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Cancel that request - I meant to say the 4th glyph.


12 posted on 02/01/2013 2:27:40 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.
Possibly or maybe not.

I see you are using a frequency count. Mwah hahahah

13 posted on 02/01/2013 2:31:20 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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See post 13 but add several more hahahah’s to Mwah hahahaha


14 posted on 02/01/2013 2:33:33 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: P.O.E.
hah that one crossed my mind as well.

Classic!

15 posted on 02/01/2013 2:36:49 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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16 posted on 02/01/2013 2:37:47 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. But in the common tongue it reads "The power almighty rests in this lone ring. The power, alrighty, for doing your own thing. If broken or busted, it cannot be remade. If found send to Sauron (the postage is prepaid)".
17 posted on 02/01/2013 2:59:10 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (Common sense is the first casualty of a depraved mind.)
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Do I get a “reward” (am I getting warm?)


18 posted on 02/01/2013 3:10:30 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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19 posted on 02/01/2013 3:23:32 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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20 posted on 02/01/2013 3:23:32 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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