Path: ...!news.tomockey.net!news.samoylyk.net!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: The lost key Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 02:01:25 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <20250331mo131610@o15.ybtra.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:01:26 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e2c747021cf4b98cdbf0e00a9e01b7cd"; logging-data="3222936"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/PaB0T42rnqmhsjrsxfPRUFz2M+gss67E=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:kHe30Z0p049pJ7YgvFaGdxH5LAw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2372 On 4/4/2025 12:30 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote: > On 04/04/2025 07:53, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >> Not sure how the digits relate to one another. > > The relationship between the digits is much simpler than you think. It's > a relationship you've been using since you were 5 years old. > Shit. I can't stop yawning right now. Time for sleep. For some damn reason when I look at the digits in the ciphertext, I start to think of all these types of possible relationships... Then think of the following game that I remember having trouble with a very long time ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_and_Bert_Couldn%27t_Make_Head_or_Tail_of_It Shit!