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128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78

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Digital Fortress

So there are coupla Flash Developers and Internet Application Developers who shares similar taste of books with me. One challenge thrown to me was by one of my good friend, to break the code at the end of “Digital Fortress”.

I swear I never saw that before (I must have been too tired finishing the book in a day). 128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78

So, here it is, break this simple code, follows similar coding pattern as Dan Brown’s
19,15,20,12,12,16,13,19,2,5,1,13,
23,5,20,13,5,9,4,5,3,14,12,5,4

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2006, 1st January: The code breaks down to as “Spam comments will be deleted”. The numbers represents the English Alphabet.

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  • Anonymous

    Spam comment will be deleted... I thought of the Caesar box for the code at the end of the book.. but I can't find a way to reduce the numbers so that they fit into our 26-letter alphabet.

  • Anonymous

    Spam comment will be deleted... I thought of the Caesar box for the code at the end of the book.. but I can't find a way to reduce the numbers so that they fit into our 26-letter alphabet.

  • Anonymous

    Erm.. comments

  • Anonymous

    Erm.. comments

  • http://brajeshwar.com/ Brajeshwar

    In case of Dan Brown's, it is not the 26 english alphabet! It is something else, keep trying!

  • http://brajeshwar.com/ Brajeshwar

    In case of Dan Brown's, it is not the 26 english alphabet! It is something else, keep trying!

  • walmas

    1- In the last page of the book there are the following numbers:

    128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78

    2- If you go to the corresponding chapter and replace the number by the first letter of the beginnig of that chapter an rearrange them in what is called a Cesar Square, a 4 by 4 square, (the author gives you the explanation on the book)

  • walmas

    1- In the last page of the book there are the following numbers:

    128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78

    2- If you go to the corresponding chapter and replace the number by the first letter of the beginnig of that chapter an rearrange them in what is called a Cesar Square, a 4 by 4 square, (the author gives you the explanation on the book)

  • mag

    if you add the numbers to them selves like this 1+2+8 then all the numbers can corrispond to a letter in the alphabet but its random, k a l m a k q d f f g i l a n o

  • mag

    if you add the numbers to them selves like this 1+2+8 then all the numbers can corrispond to a letter in the alphabet but its random, k a l m a k q d f f g i l a n o

  • ryan

    whoa, tough code. take each number and go to the corresponding chapter. replace that number with the first letter in the chapter, and you should know how to work from there.

  • ryan

    whoa, tough code. take each number and go to the corresponding chapter. replace that number with the first letter in the chapter, and you should know how to work from there.

  • alex

    cool code! what a good book

  • alex

    cool code! what a good book

  • Adoomer

    I can't break the code, even though I read your comments. I think the Polish translation makes the breaking impossible (There is also a difference in the string - the first number is "129". I think it is only a mistake).

  • Adoomer

    I can't break the code, even though I read your comments. I think the Polish translation makes the breaking impossible (There is also a difference in the string - the first number is "129". I think it is only a mistake).

  • Anonymous

    nope, the chapter/letter thing is definately right. kind of funny, actually.

  • Anonymous

    nope, the chapter/letter thing is definately right. kind of funny, actually.

  • Chris

    The first letters are

    wecgewhyaaiortnu

    in a Cesar square

    W E C G
    E W H Y
    A A I O
    R T N U

    WHICH REARANGES TO

    WEAR EWAT CHIN GYOU

    changing the spacing makes

    WE ARE WATCHING YOU

  • Chris

    The first letters are

    wecgewhyaaiortnu

    in a Cesar square

    W E C G
    E W H Y
    A A I O
    R T N U

    WHICH REARANGES TO

    WEAR EWAT CHIN GYOU

    changing the spacing makes

    WE ARE WATCHING YOU

  • nASA

    That book was really cool. Thanks for the tip with the chapters.

  • nASA

    That book was really cool. Thanks for the tip with the chapters.

  • Tony

    Google is a very fast code breaker. Just enter in the code in sequence (lose the dashes) and instant decoding. Of course credit goes to Chris.

  • Tony

    Google is a very fast code breaker. Just enter in the code in sequence (lose the dashes) and instant decoding. Of course credit goes to Chris.

  • Josh
  • Josh
  • Null

    So did you break the code yet ?

  • Null

    So did you break the code yet ?

  • Bill

    If you read the novel The Rule of Four it uses a similar method to incript a code within the plot... Not sure which author wrote the book first.

  • Bill

    If you read the novel The Rule of Four it uses a similar method to incript a code within the plot... Not sure which author wrote the book first.

  • http://brajeshwar.com/ Brajeshwar

    The Rule of Four is written by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. I have that book on my shelf too since its release but never got around finishing it yet.

  • http://brajeshwar.com/ Brajeshwar

    The Rule of Four is written by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. I have that book on my shelf too since its release but never got around finishing it yet.

  • Matt

    Fun Book, my comments on the code. Same rules.

    99-116-117-10-91-10-76-113-85-74-78-72-78-91-117-112

  • Matt

    Fun Book, my comments on the code. Same rules.

    99-116-117-10-91-10-76-113-85-74-78-72-78-91-117-112

  • skyman00

    25 20 1 39 68 20 78 10 1 10 6 6 10 93 20 74

  • skyman00

    25 20 1 39 68 20 78 10 1 10 6 6 10 93 20 74

  • Anonymous

    This is just a guess, but i think the answer is

    wewatchtheguards

  • Anonymous

    This is just a guess, but i think the answer is

    wewatchtheguards

  • Anonymous

    Thanx for the tip! I took to pen & paper right after and saw the message.

  • Anonymous

    Thanx for the tip! I took to pen & paper right after and saw the message.

  • http://www.google.com/ Mr. Langdon

    In the norwegian translation of the book the code reads:
    103-88-60-105-42-113-18-70-62-116-55-110-41-88-59-85

  • http://www.google.com/ Mr. Langdon

    In the norwegian translation of the book the code reads:
    103-88-60-105-42-113-18-70-62-116-55-110-41-88-59-85

  • http://nigelcoldwell.co.uk/davincicode/ nigel coldwell

    Anyone interested in this kind of thing might be interested to know that i worte up the answers to the digital fortress, deception point and da vinci code puzzles on my site.

    http://nigelcoldwell.co.uk/davincicode/

  • http://nigelcoldwell.co.uk/davincicode/ nigel coldwell

    Anyone interested in this kind of thing might be interested to know that i worte up the answers to the digital fortress, deception point and da vinci code puzzles on my site.

    http://nigelcoldwell.co.uk/davincicode/

  • anonymous

    third time i've read the book, first time i noticed the code. thanks forthe hint, i tried every thing but chapters. from page number, letter count, and paragraphs. thanx again

  • anonymous

    third time i've read the book, first time i noticed the code. thanks forthe hint, i tried every thing but chapters. from page number, letter count, and paragraphs. thanx again

  • marissa

    I was able to figure it out once i quit focussing on the pages that had 3 dots at the top. (109,232,338,351,395) Any ideas there?

  • marissa

    I was able to figure it out once i quit focussing on the pages that had 3 dots at the top. (109,232,338,351,395) Any ideas there?

  • Brit

    Wow, thats creepy. We are watching you... AHH!!

  • Brit

    Wow, thats creepy. We are watching you... AHH!!

  • :>

    "In the norwegian translation of the book the code reads:
    103-88-60-105-42-113-18-70-62-116-55-110-41-88-59-85"
    the code turn out the same though.. it becomes: "vi vil alltid se deg"
    pretty easy to solve... if you got a brain..

  • :>

    "In the norwegian translation of the book the code reads:
    103-88-60-105-42-113-18-70-62-116-55-110-41-88-59-85"
    the code turn out the same though.. it becomes: "vi vil alltid se deg"
    pretty easy to solve... if you got a brain..

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  • alex littlejohn

    Do people really do this?

  • alex littlejohn

    Do people really do this?

  • alex littlejohn

    can someone mail me please at ale.xl@hotmail.co.uk telling me more about caesars box and if it really exists. Plus do people use this and what other code forms are there? Thanks, awaiting your emails, :)

  • alex littlejohn

    can someone mail me please at ale.xl@hotmail.co.uk telling me more about caesars box and if it really exists. Plus do people use this and what other code forms are there? Thanks, awaiting your emails, :)

  • Ben G

    The code that appears in the end of Digital Fortress:

    128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78
    is decrypted by looking at the first letter of the chapter for each number. For example, chapter 128 starts 'When Susan awoke', thus; the letter is 'W'.

    Chapter 10 starts with ''Ensei Tankado' which yields the letter 'E'.

    The resulting text is:

    WECGEWHYAAIORTNU
    Decryption is performed using a columnar transposition cipher, termed a "Caesar Square" cipher in the book (this is unrelated to the Caesar cipher). The letters are arranged into a square:

    W E C G
    E W H Y
    A A I O
    R T N U
    and read from the top down.

    WEAREWATCHINGYOU
    Add spaces and you get the plaintext,

    "We are watching you"
    a reference to the NSA's monitoring systems.

    P.S. I got the article of wikipedia and tweaked it a bit. Looks like Susan is way above my league when it comes to Cryptology!

  • Ben G

    The code that appears in the end of Digital Fortress:

    128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78
    is decrypted by looking at the first letter of the chapter for each number. For example, chapter 128 starts 'When Susan awoke', thus; the letter is 'W'.

    Chapter 10 starts with ''Ensei Tankado' which yields the letter 'E'.

    The resulting text is:

    WECGEWHYAAIORTNU
    Decryption is performed using a columnar transposition cipher, termed a "Caesar Square" cipher in the book (this is unrelated to the Caesar cipher). The letters are arranged into a square:

    W E C G
    E W H Y
    A A I O
    R T N U
    and read from the top down.

    WEAREWATCHINGYOU
    Add spaces and you get the plaintext,

    "We are watching you"
    a reference to the NSA's monitoring systems.

    P.S. I got the article of wikipedia and tweaked it a bit. Looks like Susan is way above my league when it comes to Cryptology!

  • Bearn123

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  • JJ

    you are all very clever but in Poland the code is also 128-10-93...... but the letters in ich start of a chapter are different. You have to translate every first world into englsh. it was for me hard to discovere

  • JJ

    you are all very clever but in Poland the code is also 128-10-93...... but the letters in ich start of a chapter are different. You have to translate every first world into englsh. it was for me hard to discovere