Any code breakers around here?

[GreyGeek]

The FBI needs help.

Despite extensive work by our Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU), as well as help from the American Cryptogram Association, the meanings of those two coded notes remain a mystery to this day, and Ricky McCormick’s murderer has yet to face justice.

“We are really good at what we do,” said CRRU chief Dan Olson, “but we could use some help with this one.”

There is some history here.

[MoonRise]

Re: Any code breakers around here?

Yeah, I looked at what they wanted broke. It will be very hard if not next to impossible to break because the person had been doing that since I think they said age 5. Many years refinement up to his death. Also, it came from a human mind that thought in an abstract way compared to others and again since the age 5. There is no way of knowing how his mind saw/interpreted things. To the person who can place himself there and crack it then that person needs to be put to work to figure out the meaning of life which I hear equals 42.

[dibl]

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To the person who can place himself there and crack it then that person needs to be put to work to figure out the meaning of life which I hear equals 42.

Yep, and when he's done with that, he can calculate the solution for world hunger!

On that code, I give it even odds that the guy was just a diabolical nut job, and it's random garbage done for his own entertainment.

[GreyGeek]

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I was interested until I read that history. His elevator didn't go to the top.

[MoonRise]

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Oh trust me. Yes that may be true of the guy, but those notes did have meaning and said something but only to him and why it will not be cracked.

[woodsmoke]

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There is the possibliity of course that it is a "book code".

The problem with a book code is having the book. But book codes can be broken also since there is usually a one to one association with the letters and enough computing power would eventually associate a certain symbol with a certain letter.

The next step up a book code of a book code would be, truely, impossible to crack since the first symbol hooks to a letter and page in the book which refers to another book,

In terms of Linux folk helping though, there is a possibility. It may not be known by some, but the Dead Sea Scroll "fragments" were greatly solved by use of the original gray Mac computer. It had a built in graphics editor that allowed dragging images that were selected easily and a lot of people just started "fiddling" with fitting the pieces visually together, as opposed to the primary researchers, who were working with breakable paper and metal under glass.

Now that was taking pieces of paper to make a picture which this is not but...

Since nothing else seems to have worked...maybe it might be possible that someone could just manipulate the individual images of letters or whatever to see if there is some kind of visual similarity, not a code really but does this letter somehow (interact/do/look like/don't know what) with that letter.

Of course the person could go nuts doing that!

woodsmoke

[Snowhog]

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Written almost seven years ago, but I watched 'something' on T.V. the other night that brought up quantum cryptography and what it implies should/when it becomes reality. Quantum Cryptography - Modern Cryptography and the RSA Cryptosystem

[GreyGeek]

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I read that. An recent news report tells about a Euro academic reaching 14 qubits. Only two more and he will have a word.

Quantum physicists from the University of Innsbruck have set another world record: They have achieved controlled entanglement of 14 quantum bits (qubits) and, thus, realized the largest quantum register that has ever been produced. With this experiment the scientists have not only come closer to the realization of a quantum computer but they also show surprising results for the quantum mechanical phenomenon of entanglement.

The is a huge gap between creating a 16 bit quantum register and creating a CPU with 8 or so registers. BUT, if they succeed then any password is useless.