Chinasaur got my sig!

[magnav0x]

Finally someone got curious enough to figure out what my sig said (binary part)! Maybe I should make a game out of this. I'll change it later tonight, maybe to HEX and then when that's figured out I'll move on to some simple encryption techniques and you guys can compete over finding rights :D

[PY 222]

Hmm... interesting. Very creative magnav0x.

0101100101101111011101010010000001010100011010000110000100100000010011010110000101101110

[the-mk]

01100111011011110111011000100000010110010110111101110101

[RacerX]

Any chance you will let the rest of us know what it says?

[the-mk]

Originally posted by RacerX
Any chance you will let the rest of us know what it says?

First I wanted to post what that 0100101010101010100110010000100101-thingy says, but that wouldn't fun for the others. Start your brains :D

PM me if you want a tip...

[magnav0x]

Ok guys I changed my sig, this time you have a riddle. You will not find the answre on the net as it's completely original. In one weeks time I will give a hint if no one has discovered the answer. BTW I will be keeping tallies of scores. First one was worth one, this will be worth five. Difficulty ratings will be set 1-5.

Chinasaur: 1
Everyone else: 0

Post guesses here, start a new thread for it, or just PM if you don't want to lead anyone else to the answer by mistake.

[Chinasaur]

RacerX - http://www.sitinthecorner.com/binary/binary.php

[Chinasaur]

96262E9EAC4988953FB34C2EFF

[magnav0x]

No one has got the riddle yet, but someone has sent me a PM and was very close. :D

[PY 222]

Originally posted by magnav0x
No one has got the riddle yet, but someone has sent me a PM and was very close. :D

Come on.... give us a hint.

Pllleeeaassseeee.

[magnav0x]

Wirthi nearly hit it dead on the nose with his first guess. Maybe you'll get lucky and he'll share his guess with you guys. You still one more day before I post a public hint ;)

[wirthi]

Well, my guess was "Yahoo". Guess it must be search engine or so, and Yahoo was the only word I could find that acutally "sounded" (remember their ad).

I want claim a fair share of the reward if that helps you to find the correct solution :D

Guess the hint magnav0x publishes tomorrow will make it possible to find the solution.

Wirthi

[rshepard]

Google

decade to the century==10^100

[wirthi]

That must be it .... Gogol ... and that's 10^100 .... so, google sounds like gogol, what is a decade to the century. Impressive, rshepard.

Magnav0x?

[the-mk]

:crazy: gogolplexplex :crazy:

[magnav0x]

You guys are correct, unfortunately I recieved a PM from Nexuswith the correct answer at 03-23-2004 06:01 AM, one hour before rshepard posted the correct answer. Glad to see everyone here thinking outside the box. I'll try to have a new challenge up by the end of the day. Not sure how many unique riddles I can do on my own, I may have to go into encrypted messages. What sort of challenges do you guys prefer? A little of everything? Maybe all challenges should be worth one point? Give me some feedback.



Dear Magnavox,

The answer to your riddle is Google.

A Googol is 10^100 (a decade to a century), and Google is a search engine which explains the "thoughtless queries" part.

Nexus



Nexus 5 points!

[Nexus]

Woohoo!

Thanks, Magnav0x.:cheers:

[magnav0x]

New challenge has been updated in the profile. I was having troubles thinking of something realy challenging, but I figured this would give you guys something to do for a bit.

[Chinasaur]

Well it's not a simple substitution cipher...one rotor key letter per word ... backwards or forwards.

I'm afraid this contest is going to showcase why I'm not working for the NSA. :(

[magnav0x]

Do some research on the mechanics of the machine. You will find the rotation starts with furthest most rotor (rotor 4). Rotor 3 will rotate once for each full revolution rotor 4 will make. Rotor 2 will only rotate once Rotor 3 has made a full revolution. Maybe this will help, maybe it's made it a bit more confusing :D

[magicfan241]

I have a hrad enough time answering any questions in my GAMES magazines. How am I supossed to answer this?

I have problems with solitare hangman....:spank:

[magnav0x]

In the given cipher assume all rotors are the same ordered A-Z. No variation in the rotors alpha sequence. Rotors rotate in the same fasion as an enigma A->B->C->D, etc etc.

Using a standard reflector:
(AY) (BR) (CU) (DH) (EQ) (FS) (GL) (IP) (JX) (KN) (MO) (TZ) (VW)

[Chinasaur]

Ow! Fsck..my brain is hurting.... :haddock:

"Make him stop Mommy!! Make him stop!!!" :|punch|:




:cheers:

[wirthi]

Cheese .. I'm in the middle of encryption theory and what my beloved neighbours did good and wrong at certain times .. can't there be a program to just crack that message :) Let's write a distributed.net client core to solve that riddle ....

[magnav0x]

Maybe I should remove the current challenge and throw something else at you guys. What do you think? Or is one of you on the verge of getting this one?

[wirthi]

Well, I've read some dokumentation about how enigma worked, still I was not able to decode your message. Doesn't mean nobody else will be able to.

"Normal" riddles are easier to handle, you can think about them everywhere; for this one you need a computer or at least a sheet of paper to write the alphabet several times on.

[PY 222]

Damn... this is a tough one!

Arrgghhh.

[magnav0x]

http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/enigma/

That is a link I dug up that may help you guys understand it a little better. Has a (somewhat) step-by-step example on the ciphering (though they only use 3 rotors int he example). If not one is able to come up with something by next weekend I'll definatly scrap this one for later.