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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: The lost key
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:36:34 -0700
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On 3/28/2025 12:44 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 3/27/2025 12:25 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> Here's a challenge for you.
>>
>> I lost my key, so it's not locked.
[...]
>>
>> The spaces are for readability only - the ciphertext consists entirely 
>> of digits. If you paste the above into a new file, s/ //g (remove all 
>> spaces) and add an ASCII 0x0a newline (which vim will do automatically 
>> for you), the resulting file will give you an md5sum of:
>>
>>    f5dfacff56e1494715ead7028fc288b5[...]
> 
> I don't have a lot of time to work on this, but:
> 
> scos 42 66
> 
> t3SF -hD &ua:2oP^'y L)6f?* vP .6R _ckN2 r1Y\ t l\_yJ}9G ? ;$q P(n Z@1bM 
> [0o G'5 g?4 bG#sOA*aSKZ
> 
> 

Never mind. I might have more time later on tonight.