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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When you import the public key it says this: >> >> [email protected] ("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 <[email protected]> >> >>> On 2013-10-31, at 11:11 PM, coderman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:55 PM, coderman <[email protected]> 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... 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So I assume that I have misunderstood >>> something about this challenge. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >>> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >>> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> GPG: http://is.gd/droope <http://is.gd/signature_> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >> > > > > -- > blaze your trail > > -- > Daniël W. 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