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Digital Fortress: Code at the end by Dan Brown

#1 NightShadow

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Posted 13 January 2005 - 09:04 PM

Anyone else understand the code at the end? I found it, but I had to grab a tip from the web as to the relavence of the numbers. I had to guess how to get letters from each place it refered to. PM me if you want a tip.

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Posted 15 February 2005 - 03:19 PM

please I want a hint about the code at the end of the book, right now i don't have a clue of what it is about

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Posted 25 February 2005 - 06:08 PM

Because it's 16 letters long, should it be arranged in a Cesaer Square? I just read the book yesterday during a 4 hour bus trip from NYC, and I saw the code but haven't put much thought into it yet...

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Posted 07 March 2005 - 08:02 PM

good guess draeger.... no...

clue.... 1st letters.

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Posted 07 March 2005 - 08:26 PM

Glad to see my topic still lives, and you got it to paris?

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Posted 08 March 2005 - 07:57 PM

alright the code is in one of his other books too. Dreception Point, can't figure the code out either. for anyone who has not read the book i suggest you do its a good read.

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Posted 19 March 2005 - 07:03 PM

k anyone who doesnt know what to do with the code at the end needs to get their head examined.

this doesn't contain the answer but if you need help or the answer e-mail me at jack_a_allen@hotmail.com

presuming u just read the book you should recognise the number 128 instantly.

then considering that the idiot characters in the novel have just spent about 20 minutes looking at a particular type of code you should use this to solve the nosense you've just produced.

if you want to solve more puzzles go to http://www.danbrown....rets/index.html and do the challenges which are good fun if you've got some spare time hanging around.

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Posted 07 April 2005 - 01:19 PM

hello
ive gotta say the codes starting to annoy me i cant get it! Can anyone help with a hint? please email me at klshakeshaft@hotmail.com

thanks!

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Posted 12 April 2005 - 12:01 PM

Wait, is Digital Fortress worth reading? it's one of the only one of his which I have yet to read.

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Sleep till 6, eat shower and get dressed.
And I can't help but feel depressed
As the moonlight greets me.

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Post icon Posted 13 April 2005 - 12:29 PM

hey, i think digital fortress is worth reading not as gud as angels and demons or the da vinci code but stil a worthwhile read. plus i finally found out what the code means as the end of the buk!

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Posted 16 April 2005 - 12:18 PM

hahah, the book is really good. and the code at the end...just say i went thorugh figuring it out for nothing, but hey if yu want help email me.. ghettopimp29@hotmail.com

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Post icon Posted 06 May 2005 - 04:04 AM

It's TWO very easy codes that you will need to decypher. If you can't crack the first one than you are a worthless pile of techno-crap Wannabe. The second one isn't that hard, providing you paid a little bit of attention to detail in the last chapeter.

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Posted 14 July 2005 - 12:56 PM

Finally read this book, and I got the code at the end. Pretty easy, that was.

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Sleep till 6, eat shower and get dressed.
And I can't help but feel depressed
As the moonlight greets me.

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Posted 18 August 2005 - 12:27 PM

just finished readin it, great book. the code took me about 5 mins to figure out, pretty cool actually. if you need any help e-mail me - zaphod_beeblebrox1@hotmail.co.uk

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Posted 13 January 2006 - 09:16 AM

´We are watching you´

numbers correspond to the chapter. Take the first letter of the first word of the first paragraph. Put in to Caesar square. Simple!

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Posted 18 January 2006 - 02:27 PM

I read it a while ago, and can't find my book right now. I never actually tried solving it, but I do know a lot of ciphers and such beause I used to by a crypto freak myself.

As far as I can tell, it's combinations of numbers. An old cipher I recall used a specific book, and the numbers represented either words or individual letters. The first number was the chapter, the second could be the paragraph or page or something, hell the first could be the page. The other ones are smaller denominations of groupings. I.e. Paragraphs, sentences, words, letters. And so on.

That's the only lead I've gotten. If anyone could pm me the answer, I'd do it myself but...I just can't find the book. It's buried somewhere near the back of my shelf.

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Posted 25 January 2006 - 11:09 AM

QUOTE (Fheivir @ Jan 18 2006, 02:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Uh.. yeah.. if you want a hint.. look at the post RIGHT before yours.. the person put the answer.

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 03:55 PM

it's not a bad book....totally wrong about spian though,just in case anyone wonders people don't kiss 3 times in spain,that's in france...,the bathroom's in the seville airport were brand new in 1998 when the book was written,spanish hospitals don't put patients on beds nearly on the floor AND i find it a little poor to base the book on the secret love a boss has for his hot assistent....other than that the book was ok....Angels and Deamons is my personal Dan Brown favourite.

By the way i'm spanish so i'm pretty sure about the mistakes...

And sorry,to stay on the subjet,the code was pretty easy.

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Posted 29 January 2006 - 09:04 PM

I wonder if people in symbology found Dan Brown's two main books as god awful as I found this one. Not to say the story wasn't gripping or anything, but I know computers well, it's my field and I fould the over explanation of everything made me want to stop reading many, many times.

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 12:59 PM

QUOTE (NightShadow @ Jan 13 2005, 04:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The code that appears in the end of the book

128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78

is decrypted by looking at the first letter of the chapter for each number. For example, chapter 128 starts 'When Susan awoke'. The resulting text is

WECGEWHYAAIORTNU

Decryption is performed using a columnar transposition cipher, termed a "Caesar Square" cipher in the book (this is unrelated to the Caesar cipher). The letters are arranged into a square:

WECG
EWHY
AAIO
RTNU

and read from the top down.

WEAREWATCHINGYOU

Add spaces and you get the plaintext,

"We are watching you"

a reference to the NSA's monitoring systems.