On 2009-03-20, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
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> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, comex wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Warrigal <ihope12...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ih...@normish:~$ echo 'SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ==' | base64 -d; echo
>>> Hello, world!
>>> ih...@normish:~$ echo 'Q0ZKOiB7VGhpcyBDRkogZXhpc3RzLn0=' | base64 -d;
>>> echo
>>> CFJ: {This CFJ exists.}
>>> ih...@normish:~$
>>>
>>> Gratuitous arguments: I consider these encoded messages to be
>>> practically unambiguous, as this seemed like the obvious way to decode
>>> them,
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>> Gratuitous: So did I, but Goethe evidently didn't understand the
>> message, prima facie evidence for it being insufficient for players in
>> general to understand. On the other hand, the message most likely
>> /is/ understandable by Murphy, the only officer responsible for acting
>> in response to the purported CFJ.
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> I figured it might be a fairly easy encoding to "break", but only glanced
> in passing. It would be interesting to see what "reasonable effort" in
> terms of decyphering. As I mentioned before, the previous cases that
> worked were either automatic via "most" readers, or natural-lanugage
> "close to english" obvious. -G.
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Base64 is ridiculously well known.
