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A Small Challenge

Answer, and explanatory story, to follow.

Very simple encryption

On the off chance that someone comments with the plaintext before I get around to telling the story, I will send them a $20 Amazon gift certificate or something like that.

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5 Responses to “A Small Challenge”

  1. Homo Sum » Blog Archive » Explanation Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
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    [...] Homo Sum:humani nil a me alienum puto As honest as a gambling man can be « A Small Challenge [...]

  2. Alex Wilson Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 10:59 am
    2

    ¡Dios mio! ¡Hay un hacha en mi cabeza!

  3. Mr. McLaren Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 11:12 am
    3

    Nicely done.

    Did you pull that out just from this, or using info from the next post too?

    Either way, I decided to send you the GC anyway. I recommend using it to get a copy of Little Brother, but do what you want.

  4. Alex Wilson Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
    4

    I only just started to read the other post when I jumped back to this. The punctuation was the give-away — once I saw it I just had to look up the text (it was my first guess) and just verify the letters since the word-lengths matched. With only one S, two E/Ns, and no R/T/Ls, it really would have made normally (English) frequency-based guessing impossible.

    Little Brother looks excellent, I shall get it.

  5. Mr. McLaren Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
    5

    Now go help Fermilab.

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