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Shameless plug #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 12:02 GMT

...so you have to buy the book to see the puzzle. And the person who "alerted" you to the puzzle... will earn money from people buying the book.

Yet another ShamelessPlug (TM) by el reg.

The answer is.... #

By Dave Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 12:43 GMT

Forty two

Been there, done that #

By graeme leggett Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 12:49 GMT

In that it sounds rather in the same mould as Simon Singh's book on codes,

Though for his there was £10,000 up for grabs if you got beat all ten codes. The winners cracked a RSA 512 bit key on relatively low grade hardware.

I only got as far as about Code 3 amazing what you can do with Excel.

Solved it... #

By Mike Norris Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 13:29 GMT

Didn't really, good eye-catching title tho'!

Dumb it Down #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 14:02 GMT

Competition entrants today are too used to a low level of grey-matter challenge. Change the competition to read:

Whose codes were cracked by the Enigma machine?

A) The Nazis

B) Paris Hilton

C) Cheese

and then charge everyone a £1 to enter.

B - Paris Hilton #

By Rob Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 14:59 GMT

Who do I give the quid to? (what was the prize again?)

@AC #

By Spleen Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 15:12 GMT

Even better, put it on ITV Play.

"We're looking for eight words that could be encypted with the Enigma machine. Call us now and you could win an Enigma machine or £10,000! Calls cost £75 per minute."

"Oh I'm sorry, none of you saddos got it right. The answers were: rawlplugs, shindig, Schadenfreude, lemming, breccia, unscathed, catamite and Dangermouse. Better luck next time!"

zOMG that'll really make things less confusing!!!1!!one! #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 15:25 GMT

You've gone and set amanfromMars on them. I think he's trying to "help".

http://enigma.isg.rhul.ac.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=81&start=15

Run away!

RE: Dumb it Down #

By Jon Brindley Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 17:01 GMT

I am the only one who thought "Enigma was for ENcrypting not DEcrypting"?

A Sane DisRegard of Haste is an Elegant Prize #

By amanfromMars Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 17:11 GMT

"Run away!" ..... Any which way, AC?!. They will all lead back to the Beginning Any Way, anyway.

@ Jon Brindley #

By lglethal Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 21:29 GMT

You needed an Engima machine to both ENcrypt your message and to DEcrypt it at the other end.

All your enigma are belong to us #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 08:01 GMT

All your enigma are belong to us

All your enigma are belong to us

All your enigma are belong to us

All your enigma are belong to us

...

It is a riddle, #

By Tim Lane Posted Thursday 15th November 2007 13:08 GMT

wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma

...and no-one suspected... #

By Daniel Kay Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 16:00 GMT

...that the apparently incoherent ramblings of amanfromMars, when run through a series of complicated decryption algorithms, would hold the secret of eternal life...