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[PUZZLE] SD5/My Journal/journal00380.txt

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Cookster
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[PUZZLE] SD5/My Journal/journal00380.txt

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Heading: Tuesday � Stop, Start, Stop, Start, What a Day!

Another late night I fear.

Tomorrow will come too soon, I guess.

Undone yet are way too many things, including writing that FAQ.

Still, I shouldn't complain, at least it is cash.

Just because I'm tired, there's no reason to be a lazy slob.

Despite the long hours. it does pay the bills.

Ugh, what a long day it's been and I still have to sort through my briefcase which is an absolute mess.

Underneath this pile somewhere is the last sales report I need to include in the monthly batch.

Johann will not be happy if he does not receive the monthly report with my daily e-mail.

Never mind what his boss will say, now that he's department head.

Finally, there you are you little bugger!

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If you take the letter after each fullstop (as we call them in the UK), you get tusjdiuujnf, which can be ROTed to strichttime.

This doesn't appear to be a password (but don't take me for granted on that), so I tried googling 'stricht' and it looks like it might be something to do with programming, which is a bit beyond me...

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:13 pm

rowan
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Re: [PUZZLE] SD5/My Journal/journal00380.txt

Cookster wrote:

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Just a thought...

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I wonder if that period in the middle of the line isn't a mistake. If you remove that, you are left with tusjduujnf which would be strict time (rot-25) - which may or may not make a little more sense.

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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:34 pm

nivra
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According to babelfish. stricht translates to "painted" and strichttime translates to "painting time"

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:44 pm

jlandgr
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nivra wrote:

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According to babelfish. stricht translates to "painted" and strichttime translates to "painting time"

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babelfish is incorrect.
"painted" is "gestrichen" if it is used in the passive form or "strich" if "painted" is used in the past tense. "Strich" can also be a noun and mean a stroke (of paint etc.), a line etc. But "stricht" doesn't exist in German and neither does "time" (time in German is "Zeit"). And I don't think they're going to mix up languages, part German, part English.

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:37 am

clalonde
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a few thoughts

I tried looking at this in a number of different ways without much success. I'm sharing what I did in case it causes anyone else to think of something and/or to save anyone else the time of trying these.

Looking at each comma or period as a binary and got:
,=0 .=1
1010100101110111010
,=1 .=0
0101011010001000101

Which didn't translate into anything meaningful.

Then I tried counting the number of letters before each comma and/or peeriod (both with and without spaces)

number of letters before commas & periods w/o counting spaces
21 23 6 28 23 5 18 15 19 28 19 17 3 78 78 71 27 25 7 26
number of letters before commas & periods w/ counting spaces
25 27 8 34 27 5 21 20 22 36 22 22 3 98 94 87 33 30 7 32
I then tried using these numbers as a string for hex & octal decodes with nothing meaningful.

I also tried counting just the number of words before each period and got:
571191245211717127
which I tried to decode using hex & octal w/ no luck.

I also tried using the above to translate into letters (w/ each number corresponding to the appropriately numbered letter in the alphabet a=1,etc.) which I then tried ROTing
egkildeuqqlg (is the letter string)
and got nothing useful.

I also tried the number of words before the commas & periods and tried the same as the above w/ no luck
55274135484512017177516

Scratching my head I went back and re-read each of the journal entries and started wondering whether we are looking at the wrong entry.

journal00381 states:

Quote:

Tomorrow's subject is a number game.

The interesting thing about this is that the top line of entries 00379 through 00381 all begin with: Heading:

only journal00382.txt begins with

Quote:

Subject: Thursday - I'm Almost Home

I think that we need to play a number game with the subject line for 00382 which is what I'll be trying to do during lunch today and before I get stuck in meetings most of the afternoon - man sometimes my job gets in the way of me having fun Wink

I've already tried treating consonants and vowels as binary digits and it didn't seem to render anything useful.
Strings:
consonants = 0, vowels =1
00100010101001000101

consonants = 1, vowels =0
11011101010110111010

- CL

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:47 pm

clalonde
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on the Subject: Thursday - I'm Almost Home

I also tried encoding "Thursday - I'm Almost Home", "I'm Almost Home" and "Im Almost Home" with and without spaces into binary and octal and using those number strings as passwords without any luck.

I have a few meetings this afternoon but I'll try to play around with this idea again later.

- CL

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:26 pm

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