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[jonatj38]

[kmduke]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, I see it now, many thanks for that. I can be slow at times

[kete00]

I'm not buying the whole rot thing for the number 1. In both the keys listed for rot 13 and rot 18, the numbers were merely rot 5. I don't think that it is proper roting techniques to rot a number. I'm sticking with May 1 on this one. Sorry.

Also...Richard Dreyfus is going to be so mad about his website...

[cpababe]

Back to basics

[His Royal Fastness]

Thinking along the lines of when I solved Missing Organs back at Rottentomatoes, I thought, well, what if these all apply to letters. I, admittedly arbitrarily, went 1-26 = A-z, 27-52 = A-Z, and so on, so forth. Here's what I got.

B T G F M T K F J K F X F X N F X N F X N W S F W F D F L F L M T T E Q S K Y L F G N F L T U

Only two vowels.

I'm going to try and see if anything else comes from doing this. Anyone else see anything of value?

[colin]

More on the persephone code

I've played around with it some more, and these are my conclusions:
I'm assuming that the number doesn't rotate. My answer is the same. My method is just a refinement of the technique of solving it, and was deduced by working backwards.

So doing the standard decimal->ascii, reverse the string gives:
"Ibt vo ng GES.but Znl 1 Gevf vf fnsr sbu obj". Assuming the clear text is "Log in at THF.org May 1 This is safe for now"
I can work backwards to find the key, this gives:

[colin]

I've found out about the mysterious rot18, it's here

"Using the following form you may apply various ROT13-based ?ciphers? to any desired string. The ROT13 algorithm (?Rotate by 13 places?) is a so-called Caesar cipher or shift cipher and replaces each letter with the letter thirteen places further along in the Latin alphabet. Since the Latin alphabet contains 26 letters, ?de-? and ?encryption? are based on the same constant key and thus two successive applications of ROT13 would restore the original text.

The ROT5 algorithm applies the same principle to numbers by shifting these five places. A combination of ROT5 and ROT13 ? therefore a transformation of both numbers and letters ? is represented in ROT18."

So it's possible the 1 gets rotated to 6.

(I have to say calling it rot18 is really stupid, and seems to come from a lack of understanding, but what can you do)

[catherwood]

[colin]

[Xanther Wolf]

Howdy again!

Firstly, those of us in the UK who watched the E4 broadcast are up to date with the states...

Secondly, it is now the 6th of may so if that ROT18 cipher is correct then we need to be logging in today... My question is where and how. I tried the Newsletter loggin again but it's still saying no new messages. Does any one have a clue as to where we need to be logging in?

[pk1]

maybe at http://webmail.thehansofoundation.org ?

although using what login i havent a clue!

[Strings]

[curiouscat]

[The Drunk Monkey]

[Rusty]

[UPDATE] persephone.thehansofoundation.org