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[LOCKED] Wanted: Code/Cipher Book Contributors
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SpaceBass
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 		Wanted: Code/Cipher Book Contributors
I just received an email from our old friend Elonka Dunin, who is working on a code and cipher book for a British publishing company. Elonka is looking for contributors who can churn out codes for the book as well as (in)famous quotes and stuff to be encrypted. The focus isn't on difficulty so much as quantity, and her strong preference is for ciphers that can be decrypted using only pencil and paper (so RSA-640 is probably out).

This project is very fast-track, as she wants to ship it off to the publisher by the end of the month. If you're interested in helping out, reply to this thread or PM me and I'll put you in touch with her so that she can get you started. Please don't post any codes or ciphers to this thread, although quotation resources or quotes themselves are probably all right to post, if you don't want to bother joining the project group but have the info to give anyway.

Elonka wrote:
This is not so much a book *about* codes, as a book *full* of codes to solve, ranging from easy to hard. It will also have a few pages on "solving tips", and of course a description of some of the famous Unsolved Codes in the world, including Kryptos.

Unsolved codes aside though, I'd especially like the book to have a couple thousand very simple ciphers to solve. Like Presidential (and Prime Minister!) quotes that have been encrypted using a simple substitution cipher.

The deadline on this is fairly short -- I'd like to have everything collated by the end of this month, so that the publisher can meet a publishing deadline that they've set [...].

Would you, or anyone in your community, like to help with this project? I could use assistance in everything from coming up with the plaintext quotes and passages to encrypt, to encrypting those quotes, and of course testing things to make sure that everything's done correctly!

Credit would of course be given in the book to everyone that helps, so it'd also be a fun way to see your name in print!

[Emphasis added.]

[EDIT] Unstickied and locked, as this is getting rather old --Gisk
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Tiny
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 		I could help out, I have a pretty good knoweldge of codes and cyphers, Mind putting me in touch?
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DeformedUncleLouie
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 		I'll help, just tell me what to do.
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jamesi
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 		Re: Wanted: Code/Cipher Book Contributors
On November 9, SpaceBass wrote:
This project is very fast-track, as she wants to ship it off to the publisher by the end of the month.


I'm thinking you might be a tad late, Louie.
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DeformedUncleLouie
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I'm thinking you might be a tad late, Louie.


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ScarpeGrosse
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 		Just wanted to let you guys all know that Elonka's book is now on sale (just got them at the bookstore on Saturday) and is as mammoth as the title proclaims Smile
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