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[TRAILHEAD?] Providence's Horizon
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chiarac
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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!

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MrToasty
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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.

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chiarac--"hungry" has replaced the original word "gagged".
Haven't a clue if that's important and this is officially making me cuckoo... Rolling Eyes
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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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wj1975
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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 ?

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Cryptfiend
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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.

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Madhouse159
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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.

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chiarac
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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

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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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Cryptfiend
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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 Smile

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Cryptfiend
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providence's reply:

Quote:
Re: Dearest Providence‏
From: Providence Turing (expandingmyhorizonsSPLATgmail.com)
Sent: Tue 5/20/08 7:14 PM
To: Raymond Blair (kiaransaleealSPLAThotmail.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? :/

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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.

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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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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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Good catch on Bacon!
This might have made things go quicker Smile
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/baconian.php

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