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chiarac
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Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 38 Location: Italy
Quote:
blog post changed, no more 'ands'
also phrases just before and after apples and bananas changed: I think there was no "Seems i got it a bit wrong." beforehands, and in the end it now says "until you get bored, or hungry ^^", before it was something else instead of "hungry", cannot remember the exact word, but I'm sure as I did not know its meaning!
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:06 pm
MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 4310 Location: Des Moines, IA
If you look at the source, you'll see that each is followed by a non-breaking space (nbsp) and then a space, to give two spaces between each word. HTML only gives one space, so you have to use nbsp's if you want more. In this case, they all have 2 spaces between, so I don't know that it gives us anything more, or why two spaces between is important.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:08 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
chiarac--"hungry" has replaced the original word "gagged".
Haven't a clue if that's important and this is officially making me cuckoo...
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:33 pm
magnet0
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 398
There are 1290 Apples and Bananas. 1290 = 43 x 30. I am trying binary to hex using 5 and 6 character words, but it doesn't seem to make any sense.
EDIT: It definitely looks like morse with the first word being TIME. It's gonna take some of that to put the spaces in the right places.
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:23 pm
wj1975
Boot
Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 16
a's and b's i dunno if this helps but the apples and banana song is by that Raffi guy. I was thinking maybe the meter to the song might be the code to putting the spaces in ?
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:38 pm
Cryptfiend
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Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: tampa
with no real way to figure out where the spaces go, it would be up to alot of interpretation as far as morse code goes. you could almost make it work as anything you wanted.
for example, in her first coded blog entry...what she actually said (due to 2 spaces being off) was something like wfhqwed...i took the morse code for 'watched' and looked at it, and with just the spacing fixed, it became watched.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:50 pm
Madhouse159
Greenhorn
Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 5
Ok, I got what I think seem like the first three words "Time at the" which follows on from the uncoded text before she starts with the apples and bananas; it would be "Ooh, I like time at the", although like cryptfiend says you can pretty much make it say what you want.
If it is morse then there must be something to tell us the letter length hidden somewhere.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:56 pm
chiarac
Boot
Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 38 Location: Italy
do you know any automatic tool to reverse text? maybe it's binary reversed
EDIT: found the tool (too easy: http://www.textreverse.com/ ), but didn't work
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 6:10 pm
EnigmaFisk
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Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 156 Location: kentucky?
hahahaha
Quote:
do you know any automatic tool to reverse text? maybe it's binary reversed
EDIT: found the tool (too easy: http://www.textreverse.com/ ), but didn't work
that pretty much sums up arg's in general...XD
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 6:21 pm
Cryptfiend
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Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: tampa
so i sent providence an email that essentially said 'i think we've got the idea, but the particulars arent working out'
i switched that to binary and then switched the binary into apples and bananas.
hi, annoying ways to converse :/
on the other hand, i think im going to write apple and banana communiques to my parents. my mom will go nuts trying to figure it out
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:06 pm
Cryptfiend
Boot
Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: tampa
providence's reply:
Quote:
Re: Dearest Providence
From: Providence Turing (expandingmyhorizonsSPLAT gmail.com)
Sent: Tue 5/20/08 7:14 PM
To: Raymond Blair (kiaransaleealSPLAT hotmail.com)
I also like steganography
she also sent me another email that said
Quote:
I don't understand what you are getting at? do you like greasy foods? No need to be shy..
essentially she is saying that the binary was wrong i think. i dont see how she got greasy foods out of anything i said though. :/
steganography. thats hiding messages in other messages, so that only the people who know where to look can find it.
ok. so where do we look? :/
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:27 pm
kninjite
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Most Recent Post I'm new to this so forgive my presumption. Steganography. Sounds like a hint to me... Anybody considered a Baconian cypher? I'll give it a shot. let you know what happens.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:28 pm
S.P.I.
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Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 485
Re: Most Recent Post
kninjite wrote:
I'm new to this so forgive my presumption. Steganography. Sounds like a hint to me... Anybody considered a Baconian cypher? I'll give it a shot. let you know what happens.
Welcome to the boards. ^^ Good luck and smart thinking!
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:37 pm
SuperSlug
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Re: Most Recent Post
kninjite wrote:
I'm new to this so forgive my presumption. Steganography. Sounds like a hint to me... Anybody considered a Baconian cypher? I'll give it a shot. let you know what happens.
It's definitely Bacon (hmmmm, bacon....).
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:25 pm
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MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 4310 Location: Des Moines, IA
Good catch on Bacon!
This might have made things go quicker
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/baconian.php
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:38 pm
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