Well, if you can see a purple hand thingy off to the right, then you’re looking at the new and improved Wyrmworld homepage. I got sick of having to manually update it whenever I wanted to make a change, so I turned it into a JSP. Pretty cool huh?
So, the question everyone is asking – What happened for the rest of my time in Kalgoorlie? Well it was cool. I read a whole load more Bill Bryson, watched some videos, and on Friday we all headed down to Esperance (four hour drive each way, but well worth it). I just haven’t got around to writing it up yet.
I’ll probably get it done over the weekend. I’ve just been generally bumming around since I got back, playing Caeser III, watching the shows I got the folks to tape while I was away (yeah, like I’m going to miss Stargate). That kind of thing.
Anyway just to put something up here, I’ve decided to set my readers (if there are any of you at all 
a challenge. During my time in Kal I re-read Simon Singh’s The Code Book. This led me to come up with a new (pretty damn simple, but new nonetheless) system of encryption. So naturally I’m inviting people to try and crack it. The encrypted sample is below. The first person to email me with the solution and a description of their decryption method will win…. um, the kudos of having said name posted here as the winner I guess (oh yeah, that’s such a big incentive
Just to give you all (by who I mean the few bored cryptologists who might happen to stumble over this and decide to waste a few hours on it) a bit of a hand, it is in English. I also did all the encryption by hand, so there’s obviously no complicated mathematical algorythms involved. Apart from that, well, anything goes
01 81 10 08 02 29 00 50 10 48 01 85 00 93 30 97 31 39 30 37 22 01 42 01 01 49 03 77 12 53 30 87 00 91 14 08 32 07 01 25 14 12 30 67 01 99 00 08 30 17 01 40 00 40 32 07 10 18 02 53 32 07 00 58 32 37 40 51 02 01 00 58 13 98 13 79 00 16 01 89 44 01 30 27 00 55 13 74 22 88 30 87 41 51 21 81 13 79 20 53 31 89 03 75 11 45 30 17 30 47 40 11 10 58 44 10 30 17 11 88 02 29 01 85 00 54 10 38 03 79 21 50 30 07 12 53 31 57 10 42 30 37 00 18 01 89 43 70 03 99 20 52 34 17 00 52 01 45 32 07 11 25 03 74 20 80 02 01 32 07 00 08 03 75 11 25 03 74 20 83 10 05 30 27 01 81 00 17 01 49 30 17 10 44 31 97 04 11 20 52 43 70 20 80 02 55 30 77 02 05 03 70 11 59 10 42 30 67 11 85 32 07 00 58 03 70 01 57 41 21 03 74 14 15 13 74 20 80 03 75 01 20 02 09 21 20 03 75 14 11 01 49 40 71 31 99 30 77 10 18 20 52 43 70 11 59 30 77 10 05 10 45 10 94 00 87 23 70 21 50 31 97 01 83 00 15 10 53 10 08 13 79 01 41 03 74 01 57 10 45 10 94 00 87 23 70 00 90 10 58 14 14 04 05 30 17 31 97 01 21 22 50 32 37 00 08 01 99 10 51 13 78 21 53 13 94 23 70 02 18 14 18 23 70 01 41 22 05 00 98 10 74 44 10
I’ll probably be writing a program to encrypt and decrypt using this method shortly, so if anyone actually does decide to try this and needs a larger sample text, please email me.
So, until the weekend then.
