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VMs: Crypto question



Jim

How would you go about cracking this cipher? What would be your first step?
BTW this is a famous quote. It works on a very simple principle. I can write
a program to produce more of this if of interest.

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Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gillogly" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 28 April 2004 17:24
Subject: Re: VMs: Re: Re: Congratulations, Jim! [forwarded for Pierre
Berrigan]


> ajb wrote:
>  > Like the poor Hemulen, discovered by his friends one day wandering
>  > forlorn and disconsolate.... his collection of stamps was complete! He
>  > had them all, and so his passionate interest was no good any more...
>
> When I started writing my first chess program, my colleague,
> mathematician Lloyd Shapley, was horrified: he felt "solving"
> chess would destroy it as a pleasurable and challenging
> human pastime.  Of course, he was an even better Kriegsspiel
> player than chess player at the time, so I wasn't threatening
> his entire future happiness.
> --
> Jim Gillogly
>
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