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In England where the British broke those codes.Some of the best mathematical minds in the world had worked on them, led by Alan Turing, for whom the Turing Award was named. This is a mathematical equivalent of a Nobel Prize, and I knew somebody who had won one. It was indeed an honor. My aspirations were much more humble. I just wanted to break what must necessarily be a simple code. Or so I hoped. I doubted that a separate key was needed to help break it.

The more complicated the code, the more difficult it would be for Eric’s people to keep track of. A code people can’t decipher isn’t any use. Where to start? Look for a simple answer. The simplest would be a apartamente de vanzare bucuresti straight substitution code with each letter in the code standing for another. The problem was that the message was very short, only twenty-five characters. It went like this: DLROW EHTGN IVAST ODMOC BTCJT I made a list of how many times each letter appeared in the code.

As anyone who has watched Wheel of Fortune on television knows, the most common consonants are R, S, T, L, and N. E is the most common vowel and by far the most commonly used letter in the English language. A and O are also common. T appeared four times, O three times, D and C twice. There were fourteen other letters, each appearing once. Eighteen letters in all. In a twenty-five letter message? That must be unusual. This wasn’t supposed to be The quick young fox jumps over the lazy brown dog, a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet. I substituted the most common letters in English for the letters that appeared more than once, to see if I could spot something. Nothing caught my eye. I didn’t have a long enough message to work with. I wondered how the cryptographers in London were doing. Were they channeling Alan Turing? Could the message be in a different language than English? Nordahl was an American.

English would be his apartamente de vanzare bucuresti first choice.

It was hard enough to code a message without doing it in a foreign language. I tried to think about what the contents of the message would be. Probably something about Nordahl’s plans. Travel plans—who he was going to visit. He was apparently a world traveler. I substituted different countries, but I still couldn’t make sense of it. I flopped on a bed on my stomach and stared at the message. Enoch and Alice would return and I would still be staring at all, having accomplished nothing. Enoch would be apartamente de vanzare bucuresti justified in calling me an amateur. That’s what I was. I was staring at the first five letters, DLROW, getting sleepy because I hadn’t slept all that well in the dormitory with the noises and the odors. I was trying to stay awake. The letters started moving in front of my eyes. They rearranged themselves into a word: WORLD. I jumped up, now fully awake. The first five letters were an anagram for WORLD. Actually, they were apartamente de vanzare bucuresti WORLD backwards, making them a palindrome. I looked at the rest of the message backwards. It read COM DOT SAVING THE WORLD plus five nonsense characters: BTCJT. It had to be an Internet URL: SAVINGTHEWORLD.COM.

I grabbed Alice’s tablet and entered the URL. Yes, it was a website, but not a website relating in any way to Eric Nordahl, as far as I could tell. I was disappointed. However, there had to be something to this. After some apartamente de vanzare bucuresti thought I typed it in backwards, as it appeared in the message: DLROWEHTGNIVAST.COM. I got a blank page. This had to be a website, however, because I didn’t get an error message. There must be other pages. How could I get to them? There were no links to follow. On a whim I plugged the other five characters in at the end of the URL: DLROWEHTGNIVAST.COM/BTCJT. This time I got an Internet page with something on it. It was an interactive page. I could enter information. What did it want me to enter? I didn’t have the faintest idea.

At that moment, Alice and Enoch walked through the door. Well? Did you figure it out? By Enoch’s tone, he obviously expected me to have nothing. I could rub his nose in it, at least partially. I showed them the Internet page I’d found. It took me a couple of minutes to explain my reasoning. Alice got excited and immediately called Abie. Abie wasn’t there, but she was able to speak to Hermione. Hermione gave her another number to call where the cryptographers were working, and a code word to indicate who we were (appropriate). When Alice reached someone she put me on the line. Hello, this is Carol. I was greeted with a British accent. I’m Dax. Pleased to meet you. What have you learned? When I explained it to him apartamente de vanzare bucuresti he sounded impressed. Good show. We got that far also. It’s the next step that has us in a bit of a stew.

I was mildly disappointed that

Dax and his apartamente de vanzare bucuresti crew had already found out what I had. However, they were professional code breakers. We chatted for a few minutes about various possibilities. They had tried entering combinations of characters on the Internet page. It appears it’s looking for five letters and a number. When you do that you get an enigmatic message. Try it yourself and you’ll see what I mean. Let me know if you find out anything more. We’re not proud. We’re just looking for results. And if you ever need a job, look me up. Thank you. I will. I took that as a compliment. I disconnected and passed on our conversation to Alice and Enoch. It sounds like they’re close to breaking it. Dax wants apartamente de vanzare bucuresti me to keep working on it. Alice said, Hermione told me Abie wants us to spend another day here. If it gets solved quickly it may save us some travel. That is, if you want to continue.