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ActuaryTm

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Originally posted by: Nik
Some guy buried a shiotload of gold and silver. Roughly about 30 million worth. He left an incripted message with a best friend of his and said that if no one returned for it in 10 years (after the civil war was expected to be over) that he would be mailed a decription key. The guy never got it and has since died. I have a copy of the encrypted location.
I see. In that case, when you are rich beyond the dreams of Avarice (thank you, djheater), please contact me regarding some excellent beachfront property.

In Arizona.
 

Ameesh

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Originally posted by: Nik
Some guy buried a shiotload of gold and silver. Roughly about 30 million worth. He left an incripted message with a best friend of his and said that if no one returned for it in 10 years (after the civil war was expected to be over) that he would be mailed a decription key. The guy never got it and has since died. I have a copy of the encrypted location.

lol now im questioning whether i should finish writing the program for you...
 

AFB

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Java + StringTokenizer + Interation Loop ~= 5 minutes of coding = Sorry, I have HW to do
 

Tremulant

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Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: Nik
Some guy buried a shiotload of gold and silver. Roughly about 30 million worth. He left an incripted message with a best friend of his and said that if no one returned for it in 10 years (after the civil war was expected to be over) that he would be mailed a decription key. The guy never got it and has since died. I have a copy of the encrypted location.

lol now im questioning whether i should finish writing the program for you...

Just write it so it does like every 42 words instead of 71. :evil: :p
 

djheater

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Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Originally posted by: Nik
Some guy buried a shiotload of gold and silver. Roughly about 30 million worth. He left an incripted message with a best friend of his and said that if no one returned for it in 10 years (after the civil war was expected to be over) that he would be mailed a decription key. The guy never got it and has since died. I have a copy of the encrypted location.
I see. In that case, when you are rich beyond the dreams of Avaris, please contact me regarding some excellent beachfront property.

In Arizona.

avarice.
 

flexy

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if this encrypted message were legit (which has to be determined) then the ENCRYPTION of course is the key.

I think the one decrypting the message should get a fair share on the gold because without it you're f****d :)

$10MIO is want i want...say yes and i start up my VB right now :) Despites, you would have to proof to me that this encrypted msg is legit....

BTW. i remember seeing something about it on the history channel once....the decryption cannot be THAT easy....and, how do you know your de-cryption algo works ? Guessing ?
 

NikPreviousAcct

No Lifer
Aug 15, 2000
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There's more work that needs to be done than just rearranging the wording. That's one of the first steps. I'll handle the rest.
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Originally posted by: flexy
if this encrypted message were legit (which has to be determined) then the ENCRYPTION of course is the key.

I think the one decrypting the message should get a fair share on the gold because without it you're f****d :)

$10MIO is want i want...say yes and i start up my VB right now :) Despites, you would have to proof to me that this encrypted msg is legit....

BTW. i remember seeing something about it on the history channel once....the decryption cannot be THAT easy....and, how do you know your de-cryption algo works ? Guessing ?

I don't have the patience to get into it. Hell I don't have the patience to work with this damn thing in notepad on my own.
 

Cobalt

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Apr 3, 2000
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Originally posted by: flexy
if this encrypted message were legit (which has to be determined) then the ENCRYPTION of course is the key.

I think the one decrypting the message should get a fair share on the gold because without it you're f****d :)

$10MIO is want i want...say yes and i start up my VB right now :) Despites, you would have to proof to me that this encrypted msg is legit....

BTW. i remember seeing something about it on the history channel once....the decryption cannot be THAT easy....and, how do you know your de-cryption algo works ? Guessing ?

I saw that thing on the History Channel as well.
 

Lash444

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Sep 17, 2002
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He buried is during the civil war, but on his deathbed he pulled out his trusty compaq armada and left it in a nice .txt format for specifically for your best friend
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Originally posted by: Lash444
He buried is during the civil war, but on his deathbed he pulled out his trusty compaq armada and left it in a nice .txt format for specifically for your best friend

:roll: Stop being a douche.
 

brigden

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Originally posted by: Lash444
He buried is during the civil war, but on his deathbed he pulled out his trusty compaq armada and left it in a nice .txt format for specifically for your best friend

HAHAHAHAHAHA!
 

Lash444

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Sep 17, 2002
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Originally posted by: Nik
Done now, fvckers?

Why is it that I've seen more complicated issues solved faster and more easily (if they even existed in the first place) by programmers in junior high?
Well do you usually give junior high kids your homework? Then tell them theres a buried treasure chest with 30 million dollars in it that you are willing to split if they do it for you?
 

NikPreviousAcct

No Lifer
Aug 15, 2000
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Originally posted by: Lash444
Originally posted by: Nik
Done now, fvckers?

Why is it that I've seen more complicated issues solved faster and more easily (if they even existed in the first place) by programmers in junior high?
Well do you usually give junior high kids your homework? Then tell them theres a buried treasure chest with 30 million dollars in it that you are willing to split if they do it for you?

What you quoted is a bitter and cheap shot at someone else on this forum. Kindly eat the peanuts from my sh|t and die? kthnxbye.
 

flot

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Feb 24, 2000
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I sent you your algorithm for the letters 71 chars off, I'll take my millions in small unmarked bills pls. :)
B lxgm rhn rhnk tezhkbmaf yhk max exmmxkl 71 vatkl hyy, B'ee mtdx fr fbeebhgl bg lftee ngftkdxw ubeel iel. :D

(the word thing wouldn't be too difficult either, but probably not worth the effort to code, taht's not so hard to do by hand)
 

Klixxer

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Apr 7, 2004
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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Lash444
Originally posted by: Nik
Done now, fvckers?

Why is it that I've seen more complicated issues solved faster and more easily (if they even existed in the first place) by programmers in junior high?
Well do you usually give junior high kids your homework? Then tell them theres a buried treasure chest with 30 million dollars in it that you are willing to split if they do it for you?

What you quoted is a bitter and cheap shot at someone else on this forum. Kindly eat the peanuts from my sh|t and die? kthnxbye.

A simple shell script would do it, yo could make it portable to MSH if you wanted to, I would probably want to use tsch but bash would work just fine, however if i wanted a portable script, i would use ksh.

This is no big deal you know, give me a 92.6% cut and i will write one for you. ;)

You have to realize that people are skeptic of this, it sounds pretty far out.
 

NikPreviousAcct

No Lifer
Aug 15, 2000
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Originally posted by: Klixxer
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Lash444
Originally posted by: Nik
Done now, fvckers?

Why is it that I've seen more complicated issues solved faster and more easily (if they even existed in the first place) by programmers in junior high?
Well do you usually give junior high kids your homework? Then tell them theres a buried treasure chest with 30 million dollars in it that you are willing to split if they do it for you?

What you quoted is a bitter and cheap shot at someone else on this forum. Kindly eat the peanuts from my sh|t and die? kthnxbye.

A simple shell script would do it, yo could make it portable to MSH if you wanted to, I would probably want to use tsch but bash would work just fine, however if i wanted a portable script, i would use ksh.

This is no big deal you know, give me a 92.6% cut and i will write one for you. ;)

You have to realize that people are skeptic of this, it sounds pretty far out.

And you think I'm buying right into it? lol... give me some credit, would ya?
 

Evadman

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So has anyone written this, or should I? Seriously, this is like a 10 minute project.
 

NikPreviousAcct

No Lifer
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I've got two versions so far. Each does something completely different. I'd be interested in seeing how well you can follow directions, Evadman :laugh:
 

flot

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Feb 24, 2000
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Oh hell, I misunderstood. I thought you meant it needed to shift 71 letters in the alphabet, not 71 actual letters. Bah.
 

Klixxer

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Apr 7, 2004
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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Klixxer
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Lash444
Originally posted by: Nik
Done now, fvckers?

Why is it that I've seen more complicated issues solved faster and more easily (if they even existed in the first place) by programmers in junior high?
Well do you usually give junior high kids your homework? Then tell them theres a buried treasure chest with 30 million dollars in it that you are willing to split if they do it for you?

What you quoted is a bitter and cheap shot at someone else on this forum. Kindly eat the peanuts from my sh|t and die? kthnxbye.

A simple shell script would do it, yo could make it portable to MSH if you wanted to, I would probably want to use tsch but bash would work just fine, however if i wanted a portable script, i would use ksh.

This is no big deal you know, give me a 92.6% cut and i will write one for you. ;)

You have to realize that people are skeptic of this, it sounds pretty far out.

And you think I'm buying right into it? lol... give me some credit, would ya?

Actually i thought you were drunk, but hehe, yeah, i should know better.

:beer: Nik