Suggestions

[_madness_]

Hey,

I’m suggesting that cipherchallenge.org have a fonts page. It could have these things:

1. A list of fonts used on the site over the years, maybe with links to where they can be purchased. Every year you choose a new font, and competitors might be interested in what they are called and where they can get them.

2. Some free fonts for ciphers. I myself have two that I made from ciphers in the Shadow stories, and one for the pigpen cipher, to donate.

Interesting idea! Will think about it. Harry

[_madness_]

What font are you using for the case files? It doesn’t suck and I may want to acquire it.

 

High praise indeed. You mean Babbage’s personal handwriting? Often attributed to Snell? Harry

[_madness_]

Thank you. Turns out I already have that font. That happens sometimes.

Now I can forge case files.

Would really prefer it if you didn’t! Could be a cause for confusion and I don’t want to have to set up a digital signature system for the Case Files. Harry

[Olivers]

When you solve a cipher, you can read it with spaces added

We do publish solutions at the end of each round, but prefer not to put our solution out there while each round is active. Reformatting your solutions other include word spacing is a non-trivial exercise (which I am sure is why you are asking for help with it!) and would put additional load on the BOSS computers, so if you don’t mind, I think we will have to leave that for you. Harry

[robb]

@Olivers #98571 Depending on 1) if you are using a programming tool, and 2) which one, there are some packages that can provide pretty good attempts at adding spaces into the long string of de-crypted text. For example, WordNinja in Python does a pretty decent job, but not perfect, you will still need to adjust for a few words afterwards. It is also is very simple to use in python code:

import wordninja

split_words=wordninja.split('longdecrypttextstring')
print(split_words)

[_madness_]

My suggestion is that you disclose the font used in the most recent case-file document.
(Thank you)

We shall see! I quite like the idea of letting the community try to track it down! You know what to do! Harry

[robb]

Harry, thinking about fonts … the light grey on white colour, when using the ‘Code’ style, can make the text a little difficult to read. Will you please use a text colour with more contrast to the background for future? Black would be ideal or at least darker grey would help.

Thanks for the reminder, have passed it on to the web team. Harry

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