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Help please by the "NEWSGROUP Cipher" challenge
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:27 am
by rariyan
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:34 pm
by niteria
log in twice
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:34 pm
by s0me0ne
what u mean log in twice.? I'm also stucked in that challenge..
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:45 pm
by the_impaler
"NEWSGROUP" is a hint here.
Log in twice.
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:21 am
by unflies
the answer is from the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:03 pm
by touetoue
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...
clues
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:47 am
by paradox.is.taken
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.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:15 am
by therethinker
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.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:02 pm
by touetoue
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...
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:51 pm
by gfoot
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.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:08 pm
by touetoue
ok... thank u
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:13 pm
by therethinker
gfoot: certainly! It started in the early 1980's, no? What I meant was they died down around that time.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:43 pm
by touetoue
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
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:10 am
by touetoue
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 >:( )
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:39 am
by Broker
Look at the number inside the text!
