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Re: [cryptography] coderman's keys

From: Daniel Llewellyn <diddledan () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 22:42:42 +0000

I also forgot to mention that the ciphertext also includes the readable
words "IF", "THEN", "RUN", "you" (next to tip) and "URDAD" besides those I
already mentioned.


On 3 November 2013 22:33, Daniel Llewellyn <diddledan () gmail com> wrote:

the quote is from a savant called "Daniel Tammet":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet

the clue is to count primes, not just count. I got as far as spotting that
the ciphertext has the words "clue" and "tip" where clude is at character
locations 11, 12, 13 and 14 - 11 is a prime. I gave up after reconstructing
what looked like a base64 encoded string by counting all the primes from
teh first 1000 prime number set starting from the prime "3" because the
number 3 is located very close to the word tip and happens to be a
prime-numbered distance from the word "clue". I also reconstructed a
hexadecimal value "AAD50AD65B52324ECB602D12FA2477F" by stripping all
non-hex characters from the base64 string that I reconstructed
"sdkR/VHfGppgptLSRJsyyRSoxxOIxUoabuGpqTJQr+xayphMtkZYkq+rWcJOoazSgRywtj=XridRKPbppycgyxOvIjwIiSGkwwgSGeUUOKOcZqsKJMwN".

I don't know if any of that is the correct way of approaching the problem
because I'm not a security expert. (I monitor this list for early warnings
of potential issues with softwares that I run rather than because I'm
clever.) If I'm on the right track maybe someone else can get further and
win the ~$200, but it isn't going to come my way, unfortunately, as like I
said above I've given up (I feel like I'm close though).


On 3 November 2013 20:19, Daniël W. Crompton <daniel.crompton () gmail com>wrote:

As the text looked like a riddle my first guess was that it was a clue to
"just count" which to me sounded like a Caeser or Vigenère cipher with the
date being the key and the quote the obfuscated address. Giving the factors
for generating the keys does sound more logical.


012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
born on January 31 1979 .. all prime numbers .. I would sit on the floor
in my bedroom and just count.

D.


On 3 November 2013 05:53, Pedro Worcel <pedro () worcel com> wrote:

When you import the public key it says this:

hidden@dot.onion ("born on January 31 1979 .. all prime numbers .. I
would sit on the floor in my bedroom and just count.")

My guess is that you need those three primes (1 31 1979?) you can
somehow generate the public key for the hidden service where the mail
address is. I tried to determine how onion addresses are generated but
unfortunately I am a noob and I couldn't do it.


2013/11/2 Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey () goldmark org>

On 2013-10-31, at 11:11 PM, coderman <coderman () gmail com> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:55 PM, coderman <coderman () gmail com> wrote:

my contempt for email is well known and reinforced by choice of

provider.


there are myriad rebuttals to email as private channel, of which i
agree fully.  however, if you pass muster, i can be reached via

secure

email.  yes your default client will balk.  this is a feature not a
bug...  "you must be this high to ride..."



still no successful encrypted responses.

let's try an experiment: one bitcoin (~200$USD) to whoever
successfully encrypts a message to my key.


That’s a serious sweetener. So I assume that I have misunderstood
something about this challenge.


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