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I am trying very hard to find an original version of this cipher with no luck. It almost sounds like this whole thing is a hallucination...? Can anyone point me to a PDF of the original Cyphral Distich as printed?

I don't see it in https://archive.org/details/worksofsirthomas0000urqu or https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-170...

I also don't find it on the site of "Klaus Schmeh" that it claims to be on a list of "Top 50 unsolved encrypted messages": https://klausschmeh.net/?s=Cyphral

Looks like the best source I can find is this: https://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/2014/11/17/we... which seems real-ish?


I found this german blog: https://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/2014/11/17/we...

which links to: https://archive.org/details/s9notesqueries03londuoft/page/12...

which is in reference to the original proquiritations here: https://archive.org/details/worksofsirthomas00mait/page/416/...

i had also never heard of this before today and wonder if people had even seriously tried to decipher this at all?


Is it wrong to presume they tried to run a similar prompt on all ciphers that come before this one in search results, and this was the only one that worked?

Thank you, and SahAssar for doing the due diligence here. Like many others, I have at least a passing interest in cryptography, and I'm confident I'd never even heard of this before.

Couldn't you put !.gitignore et al in your global config file?

FWIW, the Original version looks misaligned on my Linux phone running Firefox. Fixed is, well, fixed.


It means they rebased all their changes on top of the new version. This is usually time-consuming because AOSP is not developed in the open, so you can't do this incrementally as things change -- you just get a massive drop sometime after release.


No, they got it booting on bare metal a few posts down.


Though I think it also boots in a VM if that's your preference. Also very cool that it's on real hardware.



You should probs edit out the spoiler, or encode it somehow for others who haven't watched it yet!


Fair enough. I assumed everyone would have watched it by now from here :)


For example ... I just finished it 2-3 months back and started only because of a thread here :)


It was bundled with XP.



Thanks! I've s/48061938/48039362/'d the GP.


What does that have to do with Americans specifically?


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