Cryptography-Research Digest #788, Volume #1 Sat, 30 Jan 99 14:13:07 EST
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question - Do you know the answer ? (WTNJS)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WTNJS)
Subject: question - Do you know the answer ?
Date: 30 Jan 1999 10:49:21 -0800
Question : In one of Dorothy Sayers's mysteries, Lord Peter is confronted with
the message shown in following figure 1. He also discovers the key to the
message, which is a sequence of integers:
787656543432112343456567878878765654
3432112343456567878878765654433211234
Decrypt the message. Hint: what is the largest integer value?
I thought to see fairies in the fields, but I saw only the evil
elephants with their black backs. Woe! how that sight awed me! The
elves danced all around andabout while I heard voices calling clearly.
Ah! how I tried to see-throw off the ugly cloud-but no blind eye of a
mortal was permitted to spy them. so then came minstrels, having gold
trumpets, harps and drums. These played very loudly beside me,
breaking that spell. So the dream vanished, whereat I thanked Heaven. I
shed many tears before the thin moon rose up, frail and faint as a sickle of
straw. Now though the Enchanter gnash his teeth vainly, yet shall he
return as the spring returns. Oh, wretched man! Hell gapes, Erebus now
lies open. the months of Death wait on thy end.
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