I had to run the headline through my ROT-26 uncrypter to figure out what it was saying.

SIU YDO
GBIWL TAHXQ LFUPR AJGQV AYRVU
OKEHU QYLKD DFJXQ GRMWE MFPEK
QEOPY DMZBE IZBJY UYUIQ GOPSU
VUVKE XORDC JIDSC WZZPU AXJBN
JUIVX FPOON EEXUP OYRSD PHYNA
GJNBA BAXQW GQDHL JPAHC FJEKR
VUVFI MNLYE XUGBN

/Settings in profile, procedures can be found by googling.

I hear they're interested in buying up Qwghlm too.

Arkanaut: I hear they're interested in buying up Qwghlm too.

As a former SIGINT weenie, and a bit of a student of the history of both WWII SIGINT and the Ubootwaffe, that book sucked long and hard. I call it "The Craptonomicon".

dittybopper: Arkanaut: I hear they're interested in buying up Qwghlm too.

As a former SIGINT weenie, and a bit of a student of the history of both WWII SIGINT and the Ubootwaffe, that book sucked long and hard. I call it "The Craptonomicon".

Do you mean the general messiness of the plot, or the actual discussions of cryptography in it?

caught sayof?

Arkanaut: dittybopper: Arkanaut: I hear they're interested in buying up Qwghlm too.

As a former SIGINT weenie, and a bit of a student of the history of both WWII SIGINT and the Ubootwaffe, that book sucked long and hard. I call it "The Craptonomicon".

Do you mean the general messiness of the plot, or the actual discussions of cryptography in it?

Yes.

I love reading good books over and over. My copy of "The Codebreakers" by David Kahn is falling apart from use. I read The Craptonomicon once. The characters were idiotic, as was renaming things (like Purple to "Indigo"), or coming up with non-existent stuff (the aforementioned Qwghlm, for example). And the u-boat stuff was just as bad.

Perhaps I have such a dismal view of the book because I know the true story of what went on, and I actually have experience in the field. Like how actual fighter pilots laugh at crap like Iron Eagles, but some of those who don't find it exciting.

DammitIForgotMyLogin: dittybopper: /Settings in profile, procedures can be found by googling.

Have you decoded the headline then?

You'll have to decode my post to find out. Or not.

Since when are headlines written in Welsh greenlighted?

Cootys Rat Semen?

Ovaltine!?

WTF?

OK, so it's been 5 hours, and none of you really smart people out there has posted the plaintext of my message above?

I mean, here are the Enigma settings for it, straight out of my profile:

My current cipher settings
Wehrmacht Enigma (5 letter groups):
B III V IV 20 08 13 AT BE CJ FW GQ HI KU LZ NO PV

And a simple Google of "Enigma machine procedure" brings up this page as the first link.

DammitIForgotMyLogin: dittybopper: OK, so it's been 5 hours, and none of you really smart people out there has posted the plaintext of my message above?

I mean, here are the Enigma settings for it, straight out of my profile:

My current cipher settings
Wehrmacht Enigma (5 letter groups):
B III V IV 20 08 13 AT BE CJ FW GQ HI KU LZ NO PV

And a simple Google of "Enigma machine procedure" brings up this page as the first link.

Googling your current settings brings up an amusing result, given your previously stated opinions on Cryptonomicon :)

Yeah, that's not me. Someone else is using my settings, probably because they saw them on Fark. I generated those settings a *LONG* time ago, at least 4 years ago now. Certainly predating that post.

To reiterate: That book sucks.

dittybopper: SIU YDO
GBIWL TAHXQ LFUPR AJGQV AYRVU
OKEHU QYLKD DFJXQ GRMWE MFPEK
QEOPY DMZBE IZBJY UYUIQ GOPSU
VUVKE XORDC JIDSC WZZPU AXJBN
JUIVX FPOON EEXUP OYRSD PHYNA
GJNBA BAXQW GQDHL JPAHC FJEKR
VUVFI MNLYE XUGBN

/Settings in profile, procedures can be found by googling.

ooo! enigma code. let me dust off my emulator....

dittybopper: OK, so it's been 5 hours, and none of you really smart people out there has posted the plaintext of my message above?

Now where would be the fun in saving everybody else the work? The only online emulator I found that supports all the settings is a bit of a PITA, but learning the procedure was kinda cool. You could have picked a more unique side note, though; it's hard to tell who's read your message and who's just jerking a knee at a crypto headline.

Also, I've been trying to figure out the headline. The usual trivial ciphers haven't turned up anything sensible. I'm probably being dumb about something.

THE REASON THAT GOOGLE IS INTERESTED IS BECAUSE THE STORY OF BLETCHLEY PARK IS SO DAMNED INTERESTING AND IT IS ENTWINED WITH THE HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER XX AS A SIDE NOTE BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE X

got it, buddy!

ravenaries: THE REASON THAT GOOGLE IS INTERESTED IS BECAUSE THE STORY OF BLETCHLEY PARK IS SO DAMNED INTERESTING AND IT IS ENTWINED WITH THE HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER XX AS A SIDE NOTE BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE X

got it, buddy!

WINNAR! You get the Arthur Scherbius Memorial Virtual Golden Rotor Award.

dittybopper: ravenaries: THE REASON THAT GOOGLE IS INTERESTED IS BECAUSE THE STORY OF BLETCHLEY PARK IS SO DAMNED INTERESTING AND IT IS ENTWINED WITH THE HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER XX AS A SIDE NOTE BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE X

got it, buddy!

WINNAR! You get the Arthur Scherbius Memorial Virtual Golden Rotor Award.

yay! thats going right on my wall.

Thanks! That activated my copy of Office 2003!