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I have a friend who is a professor of Mathematics at the University of Cincinnati. She is of Greek descent and her maiden name is Athena Psihountas. She is married to Rob Langdon, a Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology, but to those who’ve know her a long time, she answers to Tena Psi.
While playing cards one evening, the table conversation turned to the subject of passwords, and the difficulty of remembering them. I commented how cool it would be to use the password PSI.
I noted that since PSI is an engineering or scientific term, perhaps she would not find that suitable with her mathematics background.
Also it would be so easy to remember, but maybe not to secure.
To my surprise she said that in fact she does use PSI as her go to password.
However, the password is ingeniously encrypted, and perhaps the secret of secrets.
She described the encryption as an Arabic tribute to an ancient Greek with a little Latin twist.
She told me the password is a seven character alpha numeric code, and challenged me to discover it.
I’m a civil engineer not a math major and certainly not an Alan Turning of WWII code breaker from Bletchley Park fame, so it will be a challenge. I have tried starting with the most famous Greeks I know from my college history course.
Pythagoras
He’s known for the Pythagorean Theorem (a2 + b2 = c2), theory of proportions, and sphericity of earth (had to google this).
Euclid
He’s known for being the father of Geometry, conic sections, and number theory.
Archimedes
He’s known for archimedean spirals, pi, and areas of circles.
I’ve done puzzles with trigonometry (Pythagoras), and with geometry ( Euclid), and circles and Archimedean spirals.
Archimedean spirals are similar to fibbonacci spirals, which I’ve seen used in puzzles before, but I don’t know how to create a 7 alphanumeric out of Archimedean spiral.
I started thinking about a code simply building on the 3 famous Greeks, maybe PEA, but so far I’ve got nothing to show for that inspiration.
We also discussed Geocaching, and she had an idea. She could hide a cache and put the coords in Certitude. I’d publish a puzzle cache page, and the first to find it would have bragging rights. If you are up to the challenge, enter your password with certitude.
You can validate your puzzle solution with
certitude.