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[neuromancer]

CALLING ALL PROGRAMMERS!!!

We want YOU!

If you've got even a few months of programming experience with C/C++, and some free time then could you please post here or PM me? I'd like to get a big list of potential developers, so that we can share out the work and roll this app out faster. We need the client, a GUI, the serverside stuff and the stuff to organise the key-challenges.

[Langley Moor]

Just did the same calculations - have now revised it to try aaaaaaaa, aaaabaaa, aaaacaaa, etc.... this could take a while!

[Scott]

Here's a little perl script i came up with fFor this. it assumes we only want lowercase letters. It also scrolls an enourmous amount off the screen, such that if it did fFind the key, you may never know it. i wish i knew how to make silent so it doesnt return any output unless it fFinds the result.

[Jaeneas]

Yup "garbage and nonesense characters" pretty much sums it up.

Iin fact CCCCCCCC was ten times as much "garbage and nonesense characters".

but one of these babies is bound to work. . . . . eventually.

TTFN

More...

I have tried

reynolds/Reynolds/REYNOLDS -
3rdpower/3rdPower/3RDPOWER/3RDPower -
scarlett/Scarlett/SCARLETT -
E=MCCUBE/E=McCube -
13Labour/13LABOUR/13labour
hercules/Hercules/HERCULES
apremont/Apremont/APREMONT
iskander/Iskander/ISKANDER

all at 1 million keys.

Nothing.....

[TeamMfM]

Vons Message

[Langley Moor]

Unless someone else gets there first, I'll try it in an hour or so once this run finishes.... currently running aaaabaaa, will then try yours and move on to aaaacaaa.

Thanks for finding that program to try it for me, but i'd prefer something that's going to make any results obvious. such as you made..... then again, guess it can't hurt to give it a try!

EDIT: Is this a program for linux or windows? Wasn't an extention I recognised, so I've left it for now.

[Jaeneas]

OK

I'm just picking random eight character sets from the wiki now, but nil desperandum and all that. More unsuccessful combos are...

taversen/Taversen/TAVERSEN
marchant/Marchant/MARCHANT
wardlock/Wardlock/WARDLOCK
delfcast/Delfcast/DELFCAST
rc5crypt/RC5CRYPT

All at various capitalisations and run at 1 million keys.

[WolverineFan]

[walther]

SourceForge might be a good idea.

Anyway here's my addition to the work that has already been done. The zip combines BriEnigma's Windows exe and a modified version of Scott's perl script( Hope you guys don't mind). Basically added the following:
1. It will check all combos of (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) instead of just a-z
2. you can specify a range of values to check
3. included a compiled exe version for people without Perl installed.
4. It will create a dump file called LogFile.txt with some other useful information and the solution if found.
5. Use Ctrl-C to break and have the Break point written to the log

execute the rccrypt-work.exe file with or without the following parameters
rccrypt-work.exe [Start] [End]
for example you can
1. leave Start and end blank to just start at AAAAAAA0 and go for ever
2. put a start string in AAAACAA0 (Always use 0 for the 8th position) and leave end blank.
3. put a start value and an end value to process a block of strings AAAAAAN0 to AAAABAA0

Any Questions, Comments, Complaints just PM me. Feel free to add more to the code.

walther

[MontyWorm]

As much as I feel I don't want to burst your bubbles, you've overlooked some of the information PerplexCity have supplied you.

I will agree that the 5 distributed.net cows point towards rc5 as an encrypting algorithm

I did I search on RC5 online, and came up with http://jya.com/nsa-study.htm page. The parts that seem interesting to me are:

[locqust]

The grid of letters is the signature of Kurt one of characters who designed the card. We're not really sure what the playing card symbol means but seeing as they are on other cards too its probably nothing to do with solving the puzzle but part of a much larger puzzle across the whole set of cards.

I did wonder about the validity of the 64/12/8 being an algorithm but alot of the guys on this forum are way more intelligent than me when it comes to these things and seem to think it will work so..*shrug*

[neuromancer]

[Langley Moor]

Right, I left my computer running for a day on this, and 1 billion key attempts took about 18 hours. I started from hhhhhhhh as well, in case anyone is interested. However, I know this will have only have cycled the last 4 letters and done a part cycle of the third as well. So can anyone come up with some starting 3-4 lettersand I'll set my computer on it? That way there's more chance of hitting it, cos I can't think of any 8 letter words starting in 'hhh'

[beglee]

I know this has been mentioned before, but i thought id reiterate it since we now have an app to use. The title of the card "The 13th Labour" doesn't have any reference to the encryption technique (as far as i know, or can someone tell me what it is), so surely the title is a big clue to solving the card (i.e. the TLP card). I imagine that it is a clue to the keyword that was used to encrypt the message, so i think we should be looking into its meaning more and trying to come up with possible keywords to try with the app. I havent looked into it yet myself, and the only thing i remember from this thread about it is that it references a story about Hercules. So, i might, if i have time, look into this idea over the next week, and come up with suggestions to try with the app or download the app and try them myself

[beglee]

So after a quick look on Google and at some of the older posts on this thread, theres only one thing that the 13th labour would seem to point to and that is