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[Danives]

Well at any case, here is the program Ive made. Its very simple to run, just double click on the bat file. To start it running, just put in the location of the dictionary file you want to use (if you wish to use your own, make sure every word is on a different line) then put in the keyword you want to search the cipher text for, eg. "THE" (you shouldnt have to worry about putting it in caps, the program converts it to caps anyway), and then the text you want to decode. It will save the results in the folder you extracted the zip file to, under "saved.txt" if memory serves me right.

Make sure you extract the files within the zip to one folder, and run the bat file. The only condition for using it is that if you get the solve, it must be posted. Thanks

Oh and in reply to you bilbo, it may not help, but the more people you have doing it, the more varied results it will bring I guess! And theres always room for people to do their own dictionary attacks on it

PS: Just for those who dont know, a dictionary file is just a text file with a list of words in it. Happy hunting!

[Danives]

Also, the program does require a lot of cpu power, and will slow your computer down. With a small dictionary list (under a meg) it shouldnt take very long at all, but with higher dictionaries it could take upto 5 minutes possibly. You just have to let it run, and it will notify you when it is finished now. I didnt manage to make something that states the program is running, but the start button stays depressed until its finished.

[Danives]

Ok, I SWEAR this will be my last muliple post now, lol. Ive created a second version of the program, which allows people to enter a keyword to check all the solitaire cipher results against, like the first one, but also allows you to make a list of keywords, so you could leave the sofware running overnight. You create these words like you would the wordlist e.g. text file with each word on a line. An example would be

RECEDA
CUBE
THE
WOMAN
HELP

Then it will run using all the different dictionary words as keywords, and then look through each cipher result and see if any of your chosen words show up. This is basically version 2 of the program. The reason I dont delete the other is because I havent fully tested this program yet :S lol. Anyway, good luck all!

[BBuck]

Thanks Dan. Hope you got some sleep after that coding. I'll download at home tonight and try out. In the meantime, someone might want to try the keyword

[Maldax]

Just a thought. How do we know we have to decrypt the message and not encrypt it? could that be the 'Shuffled' as in the wrong order? Could we have hit the right passkey just the wrong action?

Fun Fun Fun

Mal

[doomsdayred]

[doomsdayred]

one more thing, ok two.

It wasn't a magic lamp as such. The lamp was an ordinary oil lamp that the genie was bound to. Maybe try oil lamp.

Djinn wiki link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djinn

[doomsdayred]

Apologies for multi posting but I that maybe think I may have just struck gold.

While I don't have the time right now to check if this works, I have found this phrase,

[groovygirl20]

i found some anagrams!
EODMFXRUTH > the fox drum
FHURGIFULP > ruff lip hug!

but while i was lookin i found the anagram of my name is we clay laura! which sounds painful...

i dont think im onto anything i was trying to be watshername out of digital fortress

[cthrag yaska]

I haven't re-trawled old messages, but I can't remember this being mentioned. I was thinking about the common idea here that the middle 108 characters code for the initial deck configuration, assuming each pair of letters in the 108-block codes for one card in the starting deck.

However, if you take them in straight pairs (WB, BM, CH etc), then the pairs SM and VM occur twice each. If you take them in two rows of 54 each, and read the pairs downwards (WR, BX, BI etc) then there are four pairs that occur twice each: BX, LH, YO, YV. If there's a straight mapping, we can't have duplicate pairs.

Unfortunately -- since I liked the idea -- this may suggest that the middle block doesn't encode the starting state of the deck; or if it does, some more devious method has been used.

DISCLAIMER: I don't have the card in front of me, and am working from the Card Catalog page here. If this has transcription errors, the above might be meaningless.

[groovygirl20]

i dont have the card either but found some more anagrams:
If entropy wins, outward looks should leave you cold
personify twin(fine snowy trip), look toward us, A cell you should dove(a chevy duel loud solo /Aloud love she cloud)

i searched some:

[BBuck]

[cthrag yaska]

[doomsdayred]

Uhhhm yeah thats what I was thinking

Sorry what? I don't understand anymore!!!

[BBuck]