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Continuing with http://www.eruditorum.org:

Yes, I saw the acknowledgement on the bottom of the page myself (about April 10), but supposedly this pertains to whomever can identify the source of the ciphertext, as opposed to deciphering it.

Hmmm....

Last I checked on the site, perhaps two weeks ago, it was up and he was saying congrats to a fellow that solved it - don't recall who he was or even where from. Perhaps that is why it is gone - interestingly enough, if you go to http://www.eruditorum.org/root - you will see a similar, yet slightly different page.

I don't mean to bitch, but this review is a bit late for anyone who wasn't aware of the book and wanted to participate in the contest.

According to the leader board, 8 out of 10 of the codes have already been broken, so get going if you wanted to participate in the last two!

On an unrelated note, was anybody able to break the code on http://www.eruditorum.org ?
It has been taken down.

crypto challenge ... Mind you the Poe cypher has been around 150 years, Stephenson's Eruditorum challenge has resisted solution for 1 (and counting.)

Hi, did you actually *check* that page recently?

I mean, scroll to the bottom of it, and read it?

Congratulations to micahj@io.com for being the first person to identify the source of the ciphertext.

So, Tyler/Poe's cypher is still the one to break. :-)

Another crypto inspired author and slashdot favorite, Neal 'Cryptonomicon' Stephenson, has his own
crypto challenge.
It is certain to be harder than this one.

I wasted half a day, and have since given up.

Mind you the Poe cypher has been around 150 years, Stephenson's Eruditorum challenge has resisted solution for 1 (and counting.)

Good Luck!

Neal Stephenson's own crypto challenge

http://www.eruditorum.org/

Which I am only posting here, because I have had zero success with it myself.

Besides, I am sure NS's 'neat prize' will be way cooler than amazon.con

...take a gander at http://www.eruditorum.org, as well.