3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

[Shouka]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

MD5 and SHA can be used in the construction of an encryption/decryption scheme, but by themselves they cannot be used to encrypt/decrypt data.

[YoshL]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

another thing to note is the parentheses, they're always properly grouped as ()

[gold stinger]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

No one has noticed the first hint from what has been posted in this thread.



edit: now that I think of it, I've given multiple hints.

Are ya done your skittles yet Velocity

[Velocity]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

Downloading Halo 5 beta, I'll get back to this when it's basically spelt out for me.

I'm terrible at these types of puzzles.

[andy-o24]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

What I find most interesting is that there are two U's in the thread title back-to-back, but no U's in the code.

-o24

[gold stinger]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.



Your 3 hour headstart is just about up as you all go into the first day of this. Lots of interesting takes on how to solve it, definitely not the way I was expecting it to be tackled.

A hint to all everything that isn't letters isn't part of the cipher stop trying to decode it as part of it or you're going to turn your brain into a pickle.

So far codebreakers have earned an honest 15,000 credits.

I'm going to go take a hot shower.

[MarioNintendo]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

I legitimately don't know what I'm looking for, here. Do we need a compiler? I'm so lost. wtf.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

Looking at this thread after an entire day of Fallout 2 scripting was not a good idea.

Just going from anagrams the end of the thread title, "fyeseeneymi", contains something like "yes if enemy". The parentheses give me the thought that there is some function included in the thread title that may be called, and part of the code inside the function/how it works.

[gold stinger]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

excellent work Dossar, excellent work indeed. There is definitely math & functions behind this.

I legitimately don't know what I'm looking for, here. Do we need a compiler? I'm so lost. wtf.

You got nothing but the clothes on your backs. If you want to go ahead and try to break it using programs be my guest. There are no rules in this game. None, zippo. This be the real deal junior, and these are some cases that crime detectives are forced to respond to when there's a hostage situation straight out of a movie.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

I can surely see the "YOU DON'T SAY?!" humor in my post, although at the same time it does bring up the idea that if there is a method determining on somebody as the enemy, the city that's supposedly going to be nuked could be protected if the setting for them was not an enemy.

The irony then would be if you could actually make this nuke blow up at the terrorist's site if they are identified as the enemy haha. But this is going by the assumption that what I said in the first place is correct.

[gold stinger]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

ahh you're overthinking it. Not what I meant at all.

the title is a smaller example of the big string for the thread. Haven't used any sort of anagram encryption. It's not anything like jquery or anything ridiculous where it's if ____, yes. if ____, no.

Since we're sitting here though with an empty thread, how are your days today guys? Besides loathing around waiting for a warhead to be dropped? Whatch'ya scripting on Fallout 2?


Codebreakers are now at 25,000 credits.
DossarLX ODI: 10,000
Celos: 15,000

[benguino]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

I'll give this a try later when I get off my phone and get on my laptop. I'm wondering if it's a simple substitution cipher of some sort (as in each letter in the cipher text corresponds to a letter in the original message, like q -> e, x -> r, etc). In that case, the letter frequency analysis someone posted earlier will be useful. If it's a simple substitution cipher, letters that appear frequently in the cipher text likely correspond to letters that frequently occur often in the English language (r, s, t, l, n, e, wheel of fortune)

[benguino]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

Ok, I don't have anything at the moment, but I'll bring up some points that may be worth considering.

Here are the original messages:
3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.
-zm+bakcag-ova11ohvok5jezb3x8fzyt15cbk+kcl4xsg()wzanjgn/kwxzs()vsn13ijgnxjb.

It's been said that we don't need to worry about the non-letters or something like that, so replacing the non-letters with spaces where appropriate yields:
svgl rhzp gz kmuuzs fyeseeneymi
zm bakcag ova ohvok jezb x fzyt cbk kcl xsg wzanjgn kwxzs vsn ijgnxjb

From this, one might think that the title for example is a 4 letter word, followed by another 4 letter word, followed by a 2 letter word, followed by a 6 letter word, etc. However, there is nothing that guarantees that the spacing in the above is representative of the spacing of the words in the original message.

I strongly believe this is the case since I threw fyeseeneymi into a cryptogram solver and it seems no English word has that form (if each letter in the ciphertext corresponds to a letter in the original).

I'm hoping this is a simple substitution cipher of some sort since that's how I'm trying to tackle it at the moment. However, it may be the case that the positions of each character in the original message is used in the encryption as well. Or, it may be a simple substitution cipher, however, maybe each "block" (i.e. section separated by numbers/symbols) is encrypted differently based on those numbers/symbols.

Anyways, looking at the numbers/symbols themselves:
3 / () 12 5
- + - 11 5 3 8 15 + 4 () / () 13

Interesting to note that the number of numbers are close to the number of symbols, as if an expression is supposed to be made with them or something, idk.

EDIT: Also, "jgn" appears twice in the longer string. Also, "kc", "jg", and "gn" are digraphs that make multiple appearances.

EDIT: Also, noticed that the OP didn't properly nest their italics and bold tags. I don't know if that's of any significance.

[benguino]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

yeah they're launch codes for a 550 kiloton RT-2PM Topol SS-25 Sickle ICBM warhead, encrypted.

a little birdy reminded me of this post. If the original messages really are launch codes then I'm guessing the original message is probably not intelligible in English. However, I don't know much regarding launch code syntax for warheads and I feel like googling such will have the NSA knocking on my door.

EDIT: And it's not like launch codes are made publicly available to everyone online, that'd be silly~

EDIT: I'm going to wait until I get some feedback from gold and/or there is more input from others because I don't want to possibly go off in a wrong direction with this.

[danceflashrevo]

Re: 3svgl/rhzp()gz12kmuuzs5fyeseeneymi.

d/w ben they made incognito mode for a reason