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The guy is absolutely smashing. I recall he had organized the code breakers event for Techtatva’06. And Boy! It was class apart from all other events that we had. As far as I can recall, it used classical ciphers to encrypt description about geographical places.The description was in simple English and once you broke the code to extract the description, you were in! You were supposed to locate five places in the world map in this manner, and when you joined the five places on the map by straight lines, it formed a pentagon.The center of the the pentagon was the solution.

The first level was easy, but definitely not substandard. If you shifted each alphabet of the code by 13 places to the right, you could see the code unfold itself. And the key was simple. The code had the word *rot*, which anyone knowing the ‘c’ of ciphers, could guess it was a simple Caesar Cipher. I can not recall the exact code, or I would have shown it to you here.

I have known ID for quite sometime. And I knew that the first level was only a warm up, more of a bait to get people going. I remember remaining awake all night long trying to break through the second level, searching for all sorts of code breaking techniques, but couldn’t make any foray. Ever since, I have been his fan, not just for his brains, but also for his managerial skills and a high fun quotient. Whats more, he has promised to write in here, so you could be reading him soon. He is also the part of the official Techtatva Committee

Its always best to hear it from the horse’s mouth

~Quote Of The Day~

~”If computers get too powerful, we can organise them into a committee – that’ll do them in.“~