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The Reg set a crypto challenge and offered to give away 20 copies of Simon Singh's 'The Code Book' as a prize. It looks like we'll end up keeping them.

Boffin brainteaser book bonanza. Response was slow so we gave out a clue. Codebreaker conundrum confounds crypto-cretins



I've got it... It's a licence code for Win 2001 isn't it! Microsoft said they were going to make things harder to copy....

Cheers Dan.



It means nothing.

Do I win?



My god.... We're dealing with an advance algorithm that's taken shit all and expanded it to 346 characters.

What's sad is that you can do the same thing when pissed and patent it as a process.

Geoff



You posed a question which I'm most happy to answer seeing as there's some excellent Reg kit to be won.

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Contact me for an address to send the prize to.

Harold Bakker

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