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Dang you, Caterpillar

**Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:01 am

Justin_Case · Veteran Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 76

I just noticed someting odd on the bottom of the page...

on the bottom left there is this hyperlink:
poiuawreopjaskd;

Maybe it has to do with the "kljs;lkjldkj" title...
The link destination (http://adfgawdfsdfasdf/) look awfully like the classic randomizer: the one-hand keyboard mash...

Justin "variable" Case

**Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:07 am

InSoM · Veteran Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 109 Location: Newcastle

**Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:27 pm

JohnEvans · Boot Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 23

**Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:33 pm

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InSoM · Veteran Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 109 Location: Newcastle

DOH

**Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:45 pm

Hati

HE said what I was thinking.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:54 pm

spies · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 68 Location: Arkansas

ok new clues on the livejournal page.
this is tough.

i decoded the text as a vignere using the keyword from the usual place and i got this:

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:04 pm

spies · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 68 Location: Arkansas

notice the slash in the ciphertext? there will be a web address there. so the three letters before the slash can be com or net or org. how can we use letters we know to help us crack a vignere?

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:02 pm

InSoM · Veteran Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 109 Location: Newcastle

Found a handy little tool here
http://cs.colgate.edu/faculty/nevison/Core139Web/tools/vigenere-cracker.html

substituting for guessed letters and keyword length gives

keyword

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:20 pm

spies · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 68 Location: Arkansas

wow that tool is a lot cooler than the program ive been using.
at least i was right about the keyword length. but beyond that, im not sure how i would have solved that keyword. it isnt even a word.

i thought it had something to do with the isbn but i cant figure out what. im going to try some stuff. i want to understand how we were supposed to deduce the keyword.

but thanks for the help and the site. its awesome!

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:35 pm

spies · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 68 Location: Arkansas

still no idea where the keyword came from. can anybody figure this out? how, without brute force, were we supposed to solve for this keyword with the clues we had?

anyway, i went to the site, emailed the guy, am waiting on a response.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:55 pm

InSoM · Veteran Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 109 Location: Newcastle

What did you email him?

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:25 pm

spies · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 68 Location: Arkansas

i emailed him about his "unpublished" books about ghosts, since the other message we decoded was about a ghost trying to kill them.

anyway, its driving me nuts trying to understand how else we could have deduced this strange keyword. do you think its connected to the isbn of democracy in america?

**Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:12 pm

spies · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 68 Location: Arkansas

there may be more to that geocities page than meets the eye.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:13 am

InSoM · Veteran Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 109 Location: Newcastle

You found somethin??

**Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:19 am