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Man Arrested For Enigma Theft
OwenF writes: "Well, the coppers have picked up some 50-year-old for stealing the enigma decoder. He's already out on bail, and they're still looking for a woman seen driving a red car at the museum. Very 'international superthief' type caper, if you ask me. Where's 007 when you need him?" I think it's clear to everyone that the woman in the red car is most likely Carmen Sandiego.
Well she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina
She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize
She'll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China
Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Steal their Seoul in South Korea, make Antarctica cry "Uncle,"
From the Red Sea to Greenland they'll be singing the blues
Well, they never Arkansas her steal the Mekong from the jungle
Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
She go from Nashville to Norway, Bonaire to Zimbabwe
Chicago to Czechoslovakia and back!
Well she'll ransack Pakistan and run a scam in Scandinavia
Then she'll stick 'em up Down Under and go pick-pocket Perth
She put the Miss in misdemeanor when she stole the beans from Lima
Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Oh, tell me, where in the world is...tell me, where can she be?
Botswana to Thailand, Milan via Amsterdam, Mali to Bali, Ohio, Oahu!
Well she glides around the globe, and she'll flim-flam every nation
She's a double-dealing diva with a taste for thievery
Her itinerary's loaded up with moving violations
Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Has anyone looked on e-bay yet?
In part of the game Jigsaw You have to break an enigma code, and can play with an enigma machine.
You need a Z-code interpreter to play it - I suggest frotz
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.sig.) That means that I've wasted 140 bytes. You just wasted about 400. (Though some might say that you wasted 839 bytes.)
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You repeated yourself several times in this post. The text of your message was 839 bytes. I've written "-Waldo" at the end of perhaps 10 messages. (It's not a
I write my signature at the bottom of my snail-mail, but it's on the envelope. I write my name at the end of my e-mail, but it's in the header. The world is full of redundancy. The world is full of redudancy. (Doh! That's 31 bytes!)
You must have the page for The Bandwidth Conservation Society as your home page, eh?
-Waldo
Based on Dante of course...
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After examining the clues and interviewing several people at the museum, I suspect that she is in Rio De Janiero.
/. forum in order to take action and take a flight there.
She *always* ends up there!
:)
I'll just need the general consensus of the
One version of the Enigma code was broken before the war. I thought the Polish had actually deciphered it at gave it to the English shortly after Poland was invaded. There were several different versions to the Enigma machine, the navy had one, other forces had others. The SS eventually developed an Enigma with ~12 dials (I think the original at the start of the war had 5 or 6).
Please don't trust what I've written as my memory is a bit shaky (I try to remember the important things and vaguely remember the rest).
Neil Cherry - Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
I can say that being the cryotpgeek that I am, if I was going to be a thief and take something I'd want to take an Enigma machine. It would be a bad ass piece to have in my study. My hat is off to the gent for ripping it off. At least he didn't take something useless like a painting or some jewel laced golden artifact, he stole something that was calssified for years.
This is my signature. There are many signatures like it but this one is mine..
I imagine that many Poles feel the same way about the hundreds of books and articles that say that the British cracked the Enigma.
The password file was encrypted with a mutant version of DES. The crypt(1) program used a one-rotor version of Enigma.
they could be breaking crypto export regulations
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Not if they took a large hammer and squashed it flat, pressed it into sheets, and put a cover on it. Then it would be a book, and protected free speech
Will in Seattle
LOL.
Well, I know she visited the Mechanic Shop and I know she was at the Football Stadium in Florida but I have to keep looking.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
I know the Enigma algorithm is known, but has anybody actually implemented it in C or anything? That'd be fun to play with.
Hey moderator? How about a clue. If I mark it OT in the subject line, you don't have to moderate it OT! GEez.
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I was investigating at the Library today -- someone dropped a teal and purple flower pot from a window and almost hit me on the head. Everyone knows that, when that happens, the villian is hiding out in town somewhere.
I still have to investigate the tourist center and sports arena, but I've already used the crime computer to generate an arrest warrant.
After this, I'm only two cases away from my next promotion!
Take care,
Steve
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Is it possibly some kind of really, really lame movie promotion for the new Bill Paxton movie?
U-571
Isn't it about a bunch of US Marines who end up dying after stealing an enigma machine off a German U-boat and thus help the allies win world war II?
Remember when "Armaggedon" came out and suddenly NASA decided an asteroid was going to crash into the earth in 2025.. then released that they're was a million to chance that an asteroid was going to kill us all... lame, lame, lame.
I wanted to see U-571 anyway, they didn't have to go and stage this lameness...
The Station-X guys were geniuses because they found ways to discover the keys used for messages by examining ciphertext, and hence recover the plaintext.
Of course, that didn't stop my government hounding Alan Turing after the war for being a homosexual, quite probably leading to his eventual suicide.
THe Enigma code was cracked by the Brits long before 1945.
There are (relatively) many Enigma machines, but there are only two -other- machines exactly like the missing one.
I think that was the Lorentz - a teletype based machine. An absolutely remarkable achievememnt when you consider that they hadn't even SEEN one of these machines.
Enigma was cracked because a letter could not be encoded to itself. Therefore if you knew the clear text, you could match it with the appropriate position on the cyphertext (No matching letters), and dramatically reduce the number of matching configurations. There were a few other tricks they learned too, such as a repeated letter sometimes matched onto the same code letter as the previous time.
Is 007 the IQ?
Fight Spammers!
May 14, 1945, Washington D.C. In a breaking story, noted adventurer and time traveler Mark Smith returned from a secret mission yesterday, carrying a mysterious contraption. Rumors suggest that this enigmatic object may be the secret to cracking secret Axis information packages, but the president has thus far refused to respond to reporters' questions.
More information to follow as the story breaks.
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Now i'm going to have to stop using the Winigma(tm) crypto program I just bought...
Wrong! Next month's code was sometimes passed around encoded with the current code to the operators. It was cracked when a long message had to be retyped by a disgruntled operator, who made one typing error in the message. From this, the girls at Bletchley Park (The UK's code-cracking center during the war and where Alan Turing worked, and eventually designed and built Colossus, the first programmable computer...) were able to work out the shifting of the wheels within Enigma.
Or something.
awx
Feel that power? That's mah MOUSING FINGER
Strange how the the Enigma save the planet (exagerated) and shortened the war (true). The people who cracked it were brilliant heroes (true). But the guy who wrote DeCSS is a criminal and a hacker (oh my god he's one of THEM!).
In todays society the people who cracked the enigma would be locked up, sued, and branded criminals. Ironic, it's all a matter of timing.
Neil Cherry - Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
So, in 1945, a coder was a machine, and a computer was a person...
What, me worry?
I think it's clear to everyone that the woman in the red car is most likely Carmen Sandiego.
Where in the world is she?
Breaks out into acapella song
After the cracking of CSS, they must be looking for a replacement technology. The article said this was one of two Enigma machines in the world...I wouldn't be surprised if the other one goes missing as well.
Try out genigma. Runs on X, released under the GPL. Way easier than getting arrested.
-Waldo
Does this mean they'll stop questioning Kevin Mitnick about this latest computer crime?
Geoff
I think I see a trend here. Maybe for them it really would be easier to muzzle the entire internet than to produce p