A data point on the effectiveness of this challenge: it took me about four minutes and two tries to get the passphrase. (My first try was too clever and used the URL to a post which has been censored.) I’ve been on LW for a little over a year.
It’s hard to tell what you’re expecting people to say in this discussion, given your spoiler downvote request. Any sensible response to the encrypted content is going to be more or less of a spoiler.
In the spirit of having fun, though, you can get at the (probably disappointing) remainder of this reply by using the full name of the writer who is the target of the allusion in the seventh paragraph of the post the URL of which is the above’s passphrase.
Since apparently GPG is too much of an annoyance, and serious security isn’t really going to work, I’ll try a Vigenère cipher for this comment. I’ll also try to make the password more closely dependent on the real dependencies of the discussion, as an extension of the exercise.
Here is the clue: After reading the article that is the original post’s key, you will have heard of two things that are needed for an idea to be taken seriously. The second of the two is Masks; the use of codes fulfills this function. The first of the two is not science-as-attire, but rather Science’s attire: the rightful dress of those who genuinely possess the Hidden Truth. This first is the Vigenère key.
Dm qsaeh jw lyou tsihjgagoumge wo xzv rjwulgtmge wt edisbhq sosvatoeiv sm b rgehsmnzom mftcozwewfruv: hiel ft sisuwok lys Tiilsogwj. Xvwl rg xmly gdmweqf, xzv sgjgih siilwsiv kc pzwiqpqw kvf kweijrw uwgjatimxq too fw dcumnrhfh tp abrmwodxmiwok s tcowhzqvsmj, hbrlrzjdaeu, mikjss hawtjgmchz.
A data point on the effectiveness of this challenge: it took me about four minutes and two tries to get the passphrase. (My first try was too clever and used the URL to a post which has been censored.) I’ve been on LW for a little over a year.
It’s hard to tell what you’re expecting people to say in this discussion, given your spoiler downvote request. Any sensible response to the encrypted content is going to be more or less of a spoiler.
In the spirit of having fun, though, you can get at the (probably disappointing) remainder of this reply by using the full name of the writer who is the target of the allusion in the seventh paragraph of the post the URL of which is the above’s passphrase.
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin)
jA0EAwMCC6+CgqSHk/5gycCAbdqenzgWRTAMf6txIWGx9XjBlZ2KTFJKuSy5HhZN HdryjGegrR0lbYJzd7V3pgQ1RFRrsgzEH7JE+r5g3q+nufHIr33BkEj4VoDui56d 2SmdfIthdjYNvk1IM4H6N8zegsBSlptB2BYWv7xBE3MzekqDRO5QBkP1mDar0ca2 zx9bfU5L4XtMcgNc3rVGpyRWARDZkzluozVQwwLuTmeNrjpVubtbUKNlaoy+LgiR BHuRC5We6NBZR1mc8Q/TIhDltW2y4G81pzChff0yJc6YkE7uasMgmmJC9qtu7VSW wcPkVgLOoQrXQQmHKMb3eOrr9iAyPQlYaRgPLcOazloQj7CeCqAFm6zQrNoZrUUH aX1Sm4nS6gQK7fa5hS8Lw/4oT/CQJrYj33dWtseial8phYW5U7rGe8i8qyK5G136 5l8= =jgi1
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
Since apparently GPG is too much of an annoyance, and serious security isn’t really going to work, I’ll try a Vigenère cipher for this comment. I’ll also try to make the password more closely dependent on the real dependencies of the discussion, as an extension of the exercise.
Here is the clue: After reading the article that is the original post’s key, you will have heard of two things that are needed for an idea to be taken seriously. The second of the two is Masks; the use of codes fulfills this function. The first of the two is not science-as-attire, but rather Science’s attire: the rightful dress of those who genuinely possess the Hidden Truth. This first is the Vigenère key.
Dm qsaeh jw lyou tsihjgagoumge wo xzv rjwulgtmge wt edisbhq sosvatoeiv sm b rgehsmnzom mftcozwewfruv: hiel ft sisuwok lys Tiilsogwj. Xvwl rg xmly gdmweqf, xzv sgjgih siilwsiv kc pzwiqpqw kvf kweijrw uwgjatimxq too fw dcumnrhfh tp abrmwodxmiwok s tcowhzqvsmj, hbrlrzjdaeu, mikjss hawtjgmchz.
Sx tcvvkv kf aglzer’l noox lf vbzw jsqejrhf tsjgxsjug brv iwehdvg pr wrqi tgjh—nyuy zfwk vodl ufanifk—fbxzvf, xi’v noox s jwokdv zpgc fb feuy hjij’j tpvmd.