Cool! The riddle still is pretty neat: significance, blue Truth book, p. 86, the quoted verse occurring between the superscript 8 beginning the paragraph and the word "armies", etc.
Stump the expert.
by John Doe 45 Replies latest jw friends
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cyberjesus
haha and who and where exactly is the expert? 3 pages and not even one correct answer.
Damned I dont have that blue book anymore. I wonder if its online.
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HintOfLime
Yes, I see the vulnerability in your code now:
Alphabetical by Cipher Alphabetical by Plaintext AGB - after
AGJ – against
AHZ - all
AJZ – and
AKA - another
ALL - are
AWG – be
AYM - beginning
B – a
DQA - distress
EG - Earthquakes
FDB - food
FDL – for
HBV - in
IFQ – nation
IXC - of
INZ - one
JTW – kingdom
LNW - pangs
MJC - place
PAT – rise
ROT - shortages
UYL – there
UYT – these
UZI - things
VWQ - willA - B
After - AGB
Against – AGJ
All - AHZ
And – AJZ
Another – AKA
Are - ALL
be – AWG
beginning – AYM
distress - DQA
earthquakes - EG
food - FDB
for – FDL
in - HBV
kingdom - JTW
nation – IFQ
of - IXC
one – INZ
pangs - LNW
place - MJC
rise – PAT
shortages - ROT
there – UYL
these – UYT
things - UZI
will - VWQI was wondering earlier if you kept a codebook with two seperate alphabetical lists, if it was only intended for encodeing, or there was a handy trick for looking up the words for decoding - guess that answers that question.
Cool! The riddle still is pretty neat: significance, blue Truth book, p. 86, the quoted verse occurring between the superscript 8 beginning the paragraph and the word "armies", etc.
Ironically even though I guessed 1986 based on the "Year of Peace" - like an idiot I didn't go straight to page '86' but kept thinking it had some textual or biblical meaning (I literally 'paged through' looking for a sub-title that included that phrase, or mention of the return of the 'prince of peace').. and basically my eye hit "nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom" and it jumped out at me as a possibility. Then when I saw the page number I felt pretty dang stupid.
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Leolaia
Yup, you found the vulnerability. :) If I had done a simple trick like reversing the letters, how long would it have taken you to discover the pattern? I guess I should have a second layer of encryption for the three-letter codes, though the code is still pretty much unbreakable without much toil and effort.
Notice how "kingdom" is in the "wrong" place? I threw in a lot of arbitrary things like that at the local level throughout, same goes for *T "holy" in my response to John Doe (quoting Stan's response to Cartman), with the asterisk occurring in place of the intial letter.
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HintOfLime
Yup, you found the vulnerability. :) If I had done a simple trick like reversing the letters, how long would it have taken you to discover the pattern?
Longer for sure, but I think I could have spotted it. Just looking at the new set of words (even before I set to catalog them) I had a 'gut feeling' that there was a corrolation between codeword and plaintext. I certainly would have started moving letters around.
On my whiteboard with the original messages, I added in some 'rough limits' where I can expect the word to fall in the alphabet for each word.. but at this point I can still more-less make the sentence say anything I want, as the ranges are so broad. I now know CS.Σ is probably a plural noun, or a current-tense verb. HUL I can throw out a few supicions, and my current favorites would be 'is', 'it', or 'its' - but HUL appears between HBV and IFQ, which represents a huge multi-letter gap in plaintext. I can throw out a lot of words, but it still leaves a lot of words. AMY could be 'at'... or something completely different. AOR doesn't appear to be one of the common conjunctions, but you said it was a 'functional' word so I'm still thinking on that.
Still more-less impossible to solve this and know you've got it right.
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John Doe
haha and who and where exactly is the expert? 3 pages and not even one correct answer.
Damned I dont have that blue book anymore. I wonder if its online.
Every answer has been correct! Aren't you a killbuzz!