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Code appearing at the end of "Het Juvenalis Dilemma" (Dutch translation of "Digital Fortress") by Dan Brown.
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%I #6 Sep 08 2019 03:06:13

%S 16,39,44,16,39,101,84,20,5,60,16,16,117,117,85,60

%N Code appearing at the end of "Het Juvenalis Dilemma" (Dutch translation of "Digital Fortress") by Dan Brown.

%C The original English version, Digital Fortress, contains a different integer sequence, which reads "We are watching you", see A121374.

%D Dan Brown, Het Juvenalis Dilemma, ISBN 9024553024 (Dutch)

%H Wikipedia (Dutch), <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Het_Juvenalis_Dilemma">Het Juvenalis Dilmma</a>.

%e The code is decrypted by looking at the first letter of the chapter for each number, resulting in ERPERDJLWTEEOOGT. 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:

%e ERPE

%e RDJL

%e WTEE

%e OOGT

%e and read from the top down.

%e ERWORDTOPJEGELET.

%e Add spaces and you get the plaintext, "Er wordt op je gelet" a reference to the NSA's monitoring systems.

%Y Cf. A121374.

%K fini,full,nonn,word

%O 1,1

%A Rob Golsteijn (Rob.Golsteijn(AT)hotmail.com), Jul 25 2006