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Nope! That's a dead end ....

Whereby 1.5 doesn't make sense ....

It's more than three years ago that i solved this one, therefore i don't remember exactly what i did and how i did it, but there's one thing for sure, i never thought about or met any prime numbers in my attempts.

The second part of the challenge - are there any parallels to the NG games?

You won't believe it - i also started with the RS232 specs (because of the homophone of Cereal and Serial) and in the end it helped. Ok, you don't have to take the specs too precise, i played a lot with different settings (Start-Stop-Parity-Bits), but as i said, with all these attempts in the end i ...

Nope

(maybe 2 or 3 tries, but no real brute force)

No, as far as i remember there are no additional things to look for.

They are not meaningless - read them and think .....

Hi,

since a few days i get the following error on the homepage of www.hacker.org:

Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/hacker_apache/html/hacker/html/util/topten.php on line 18

I guess, it's nothing serious, but just for your information .....

Hm, I think those would rather have five letters than four?

I meant aside the first character in front of the "-" ...

Most of them remind me on some Aircraft Type Identifiers .... unfortunately a few of them do not exist

Wow, got it!
Thanks for all the hints
For me the second part was much harder than the first one, probably because the second one was so easy that i didn't even think about such an idea.

My problem is rather willing (or not willing) than being a blockhead: I've decoded the three sentences (in- and excluding interpunctuation) and since i'm pretty sure, that it is not possible to encrypt two different plaintexts with two different algorithms and get the same ciphertext (the one from t...

This last hint helped? Oh jeeze, what am i doing wrong

Tetragraphs ???
I thought, English has no tetragraphs ....