X-Git-Url: https://git.njae.me.uk/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=2018%2F7a.plaintext;fp=2018%2F7a.plaintext;h=d663066edbd63eaaff1b18fd5454a9e2f53efb7d;hb=4bf9ca8a1ed10576312b16948cf25db7767ad0c0;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=aa0f7d5a620e3cde5141ca221fefe29f77c460b9;p=cipher-tools.git diff --git a/2018/7a.plaintext b/2018/7a.plaintext new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d663066 --- /dev/null +++ b/2018/7a.plaintext @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +exactly what or who had hit me i wasnt sure but by the time i came around they had long gone if you +will excuse the p unit was a professional hit just the right amount of force to knock me out +probably no permanent damage the room had been expertly disassembled the shelves were emptied of +blacks mission files and much of the steampunk technology had been taken apart presumably to make +sure it didnt contain any further secrets the big beautiful roundtable had been cleared and ile +anton it to steady myself as my head swami guessed that whoever had followed me into the tunnels and +on into the headquarters must have known what i was looking for it was too much of a coincidence +that they had found me here probably they were connected with the emails that first got me +interested in black but in a confused state after my blackout i was puzzled why had they involved me +perhaps they just didnt know how to find the shadow archive and hoped i would be able to help +perhaps they wanted to implicate me in the theft of the shadow archive papers in that case they +should have hit me harder i wasnt going to hang around long enough to get caught something was +nagging at men one of the papers i had seen looked interesting enough to justify all this effort i +turned my head cautiously trying to ignore the throbbing behind m year and looked around the room +one more time to see what we were missing as i did so my foot caught on something and i bent down +topic kit up when they hit me i had been sitting reading blacks codebook it was full of marvellous +if dated ideas on cryptography and information security and i had just been reading the section on +transposition ciphers it seemed he was particularly keen on columnar transpositions and was arguing +that it would be best to read off the ciphertext column by column to confuse enemy crypt analysts i +was musing on just how secure that would be when the world went dark luckily as i had fallen i had +dropped the book and it had slipped under the table somehow they had missed it during the search and +there it was hidden in the shadows i took a deep breath to slow the spinning behind my eyes and +picked the book up but as i pulled myself upright again the tabletop shifted slightly to one side i +struggled to regain my balance and the table moved again and this time i heard a distinct click as i +shifted my weight the table rotated back and there it was once more a soft metallic c link as a +ratchet tooth engaged i stood up grabbed at the table and pulled sideways it turned again clicking +several times as it did so it was a noise i knew very well the tumblers on a safe made the same +sound though much much quieter \ No newline at end of file