Help please by the "NEWSGROUP Cipher" challenge

rariyan · Post by **rariyan** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:27 am

Hi all can u help me by the "NEWSGROUP Cipher" challenge

please help me

The code is :

Guvf zrffntr vf rapelcgrq va ebg 13. Lbhe nafjre vf svfupnxr.

niteria · Post by **niteria** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:34 pm

log in twice

s0me0ne · Post by **s0me0ne** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:34 pm

what u mean log in twice.? I'm also stucked in that challenge..

the_impaler · Post by **the_impaler** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:45 pm

"NEWSGROUP" is a hint here.
Log in twice.

unflies · Post by **unflies** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:21 am

the answer is from the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

touetoue · Post by **touetoue** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:03 pm

hmmmm... i tried to figure it out like the rest of you, doy, but i still couldn't... i'm not asking for the answer... but i am asking if anybody can give a better clue...

paradox.is.taken · Post by **paradox.is.taken** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:47 am

I just solved this one but still have no idea what "newsgroup" means or what the clues given are supposed to tell you. All I can say is get a crypto book and read the first few chapters.

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:15 am

If you weren't yet actively using the Internet back in 2000-2002, you've missed out and you just won't get the clue.

If you did, you'd get this immediately.

touetoue · Post by **touetoue** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:02 pm

ok... well... i guess i missed out and will never get it

and i wasn't that good with codes until i tried that one... i had a set of (literally) 5 code books out and was reading through them (and now i know more about codes/cyphers than most people near me ever will

this part was unnecessary... but i is happy about it) but in that set of 5 books i still wasn't able to find anything out...they all came out wrong...

gfoot · Post by **gfoot** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:51 pm

Heh, it dates back a lot further than that!

The message is a bit short for frequency analysis, but the books and their techniques will come in handy for other ciphers later on.

You should be able to find enough information via Google. When people say "newsgroups" they usually mean "Usenet" - the main worldwide newsgroup system - and you might get better results searching for that.

touetoue · Post by **touetoue** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:08 pm

ok... thank u

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:13 pm

gfoot: certainly! It started in the early 1980's, no? What I meant was they died down around that time.

touetoue · Post by **touetoue** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:43 pm

ok... but if it died down so much that not even google will help me (humph

) then i'm just going to try and get somebody to help me figure out

touetoue · Post by **touetoue** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:10 am

ok... i decided to give this one a try again... does anybody know a site or book that can help me learn usenet? (that doesn't involve paying any money... i looked and i found 300+ but they all required payment >:( )

Broker · Post by **Broker** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:39 am

Look at the number inside the text!