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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: The lost key
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 21:20:50 +0100
Organization: Fix this later
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On 06/04/2025 21:14, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 4/6/2025 3:41 AM, Marcel Logen wrote:
>> Richard Heathfield in sci.crypt:
>>
>>> On 06/04/2025 02:26, Marcel Logen wrote:
>>
>>>> 49184 87069 85461 51598 38286 31222 99049 92521 48220 18433
>> [...]
>>
>>> 38811 65216 66401 68566 71607 88766 30093 20785 13788 66768
>> [...]
>>> 53109 21508 67876 04651 44198 09199 66939 09980 53449 11974
>>> 77016 06674 253
>>
>> OK
>>
>>> (Quite a practical little cipher as it turns out.)
>>
>> ACK
>>
>> The five-groups remind me of the "number stations" from the
>> Cold Ware era.
> 
> Shit. I was not paying attention to the five groups.

And why should you?

> For some 
> reason 3+8+8+1+1 = 21, is that mapping to an alphabet?

No doubt it could be made to be if one were determined enough... 
but no, I was just trying to make it easier on the eye than a 
great wodge of digits, and there is no need to read anything more 
into it than that.

I will be posting a (very small) hint tomorrow.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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