josephine76

bury treasure, and leave clues in a vigenère code!
vigenère 1 year ago

is pretty tough to figure out. which should probably mean that the treasure should be worth a lot. either that, or i’ll bury the treasure in a common vacation spot, and post the keyword here, so that you all can participate in my treasure hunt! =)

Apr 10, 2007, 04:22PM PDT | 2 cheers


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carpe_diem_for_me is busy slaying the dragons..:-)

That sounds like such a fun goal! Keep us posted!

Apr 10, 2007, 04:25PM PDT | Respond to this

Got Papi? (Papacito) is headed back to Microsoft! :D

Why Vigenere?

There are other cipher methods that might be more fun for beginners.

Checkout my cryptography page. I wrote a program there that will help you in code and decipher codes.

www.davefer.net/atbash

I love this goal. Let me know how it goes.

- DaveFer

Apr 22, 2007, 09:15PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

josephine76

wow!

i don’t think the idea is to make it fun for beginners, the idea is to express my newfound knowledge. hahah, but wow, i’m so impressed with the program writing business. =)

Apr 23, 2007, 08:55PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Got Papi? (Papacito) is headed back to Microsoft! :D

Did you check it out?

Well, if you are burrying REAL treasure, then I guess you don’t want just “anyone” to find it.

But if you WANT someone to find it … then you might want to use a cipher that doesn’t require a knowledge of crypto-analysis to solve.

Did you check out my program? It might help you with writing your codes.

It has a variety of ciphers that you can use that range from easy to solve (Atbash) to virtually impossible (Dave’s Pseudo-Enigma).

Dave’s Pseudo-Enigma is a Vigenere-type cipher that is virtually impossible to solve without using computers to decipher it. It’s loosely based on the Germans’ WWII Enigma, but much simpler.

Apr 26, 2007, 07:41PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

josephine76

see, that's the problem exactly.

i want it to be real treasure, and i want for people to be able to figure it out with a medium-good amount of effort. but i don’t want it to be virtually impossible. haha.

Apr 27, 2007, 06:22PM PDT | Respond to this


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