The Sphinx's Lair

TheGreatEscaper

12:06 AM

@Sp3000 they aren't supposed to be instantly accessible, it's sort of an imgur maze

Sp3000

Oh, right. nvm then

Lukas Rotter

Would anyone even be interested in a website that 1) offers all the basic classical cryptography/cryptanalysis tools you already know from sites like rumkin 2) adds new custom cipher tools and articles concerning P.SE questions once they are solved (ofc only if the cipher isn't complete crap or just a series of known ciphers)

3) Do you have some other suggestions? The main purpose of it would be to make it an interesting resource for P.SE cipher enthusiasts and to make it able for people to try out every custom cipher they find on P.SE. I still think the idea is lacking something to make it actually interesting, so I'd appreciate some feedback.

boboquack

I suggest for the meanwhile we can vote with stars on the post

@LukasRotter Do you have an answer for that weird slot machine?

@TheGreatEscaper I think you can stick images (pngs) to the back of each other, so long as you download the image

Lukas Rotter

@boboquack Yes, and I hope it will never be discovered :P

Rubio

@LukasRotter Now that's just mean. (I like it. Muahahaaa)

Deusovi

12:17 AM

Can we at least have a hint?

(Also, I'm really sad that you deleted your main account on Puzzling. :c )

Rand al'Thor

@boboquack It's not weird, it's bizarre. Tut tut, get it right :-P

So Rotter is "weird" and Rotter's Slave is "bizarre"? — rand al'thor Dec 14 '16 at 17:43

@Deusovi Yes :-(

boboquack

@Randal'Thor Sorry :P

Lukas Rotter

The solution is pretty embarassing, especially because that puzzle was my last question on P.SE :D

I only posted that question because I desperately wanted to boost my slave's rep

@boboquack Good idea, but I guess "downvoters" have to separately post a "-1" message to me :P

(or a RO having a bad day just removes all stars)

boboquack

12:37 AM

By the way, for anyone wanting some bizarre analysis, I've got the differences between letters, backwards then forwards, and the actual letter values here:

11	15	21
24	2	10
12	14	12
23	3	26
12	14	3
5	21	17
9	17	12
20	6	3
7	19	9
5	21	2
14	12	23
4	22	9
19	7	5
9	17	12
17	9	3
11	15	12
20	6	1
5	21	7
10	16	2
25	1	18
14	12	19
4	22	5
8	18	1
8	18	19
8	18	11
4	22	3

####################

6	20	15
6	20	9
0	0	3
12	14	3
12	14	17
25	1	5
24	2	6
24	2	8
23	3	10
22	4	13
22	4	17
19	7	21
18	8	2
18	8	10
11	15	18
10	16	7
10	16	23
21	5	13
20	6	18
20	6	24
15	11	4
14	12	15
14	12	1
3	23	13
2	24	10
2	24	8

####################

21	5	5
9	17	10
1	25	1
18	8	26
14	12	8
4	22	20
11	15	16

With this python 3 code:

def letter(x):return ord(x)-96
def diff(a,b):return (ord(a)-ord(b))%26

s='ujlzcqlcibwielclagbrseaskcy'

for i in range(len(s)-1):
	print(diff(s[i],s[i+1]),diff(s[i+1],s[i]),letter(s[i]),sep='\t')

print('\n####################\n')

s='oiccqefhjmqubjrgwmrxdoamjhf'

for i in range(len(s)-1):
	print(diff(s[i],s[i+1]),diff(s[i+1],s[i]),letter(s[i]),sep='\t')

print('\n####################\n')

s='ejazhtpewqzurpxtqmwrdutyxwn'

for i in range(len(s)-1):
	print(diff(s[i],s[i+1]),diff(s[i+1],s[i]),letter(s[i]),sep='\t')

Note that it trims the letter value of the last letter

tio.run/nexus/…

boboquack

1:31 AM

Ahhh, @Rubio? Your template doesn't seem to be working.

Rubio

1:50 AM

Try reloading. I tested it on multiple devices and browsers and it worked on all of them.

It didn't even do the array lines so the mathjax didn't render correctly

Rand al'Thor

@Rubio status-reproduced: I see the same thing as boboquack.

boboquack

Did it a few times

And the MathJax box goes above the top of the page too

Rubio

Well poo. Ok thanks. What browser?

Volatility

It shows the same thing for me, but after a couple of seconds the correct formatting shows

boboquack

Google chrome

Rand al'Thor

2:02 AM

Actually, yeah, when going back to that tab after a few minutes I now see it displaying properly, same as Volatility.

Maybe MathJax is just slow to render properly?

boboquack

Bizarre - mine stays the same

Rand al'Thor

(Firefox.)

Rubio

Shouldn't take more than a couple seconds. And I use Firefox and chrome to test, plus safari on iPhone and Chrome on an android device. Renders correctly on all, though it does take some seconds on the slower devices.

TheGreatEscaper

2:24 AM

I see that only for a second

boboquack

2:37 AM

It's resolved to the correct image now.

Maybe the CPU was being a bit slow? Don't know much about internal processing...

Rubio

I do know sometimes if it's loading a resource from elsewhere to finish rendering it can halt painting the page with the MJ not properly run - but I don't see that often

boboquack

Though the box still goes above the page

Rubio

Thanks for the bug reports though :)

boboquack

Rubio

If the box is mis-located, you may have something local messed up - I've never seen it do that

boboquack

2:44 AM

The blue box is what happens when I click on it

Rubio

oh. huh. actually i see that in Chrome

boboquack

This is what it usually looks like

I've clicked on the 46=1+1+...

Rubio

Yah - I'll look into that. Shouldn't be happening that way at all

MathJax is squirrelly.

so the weird display you saw earlier is what is rendered by "Preview HTML", which is what you get before MathJax finishes loading and running all its code

Chrome's HTML-CSS gets the bounding box wrong for some reason

Firefox gets it right

rightclick->Math Settings->Math Renderer->SVG should make everything sane, but then it's being rendered "the hard way". Shouldn't have to do that. :(

Rubio

3:37 AM

yay. found a fix.

Rubio

4:45 AM

huzzah. template fixed, Chrome issue resolved, and even tightened the template macros code up a bit. Learning is fun!

boboquack

5:06 AM

Now it looks like this pre-load (thought it loads quickly now)

boboquack

5:20 AM

@humn Since it would be too chatty to keep commenting on the semiïnfinite autobinomonorownonomicrogram post, I just want to say I'm still working on the semiminibinononohohohologram, but can't seem to make progress one way or another

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