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[IMPLOSION] The Ballad of Michael Adams
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follow your heart
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 		A Playfair with a 36-character set uses letters and numbers.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:58 am
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G3K
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 		The address is OOG, and I'd appreciate it if it was taken down - although I haven't talked to her since I left I am pretty sure that my friend did not intend for that to become part of the public record, nor part of this increasingly pointless game. This is kind of irking me on my vacation *mad*
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follow your heart wrote:
A Playfair with a 36-character set uses letters and numbers.


Yeah, but a Playfair-36 wouldn't have double-letter sets, whereas this puzzle starts out with "7U 88 5R". Might be Vigenere on a 36x36 grid?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:29 am
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follow your heart
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 		If I may say


Nyah nyah nyah boo boo! Razz


kitty.jpg SOLVED:


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
M I C H A E L H O N E S T L Y I M G E T T Y I N G C O N C E
R N E D I W I S H Y O U C O U L D J U S T U N D E R S T A N
D T H E I M P L I C A T I O N S O F W H A T Y O U R E S U G
G E S T I N G Y O U K N O W A S W E L L A S I B Q I V E N S
W O U L D H A V E N O P R O B L E M S E N D I N G Y O U T O
T H E B O T T O M O F T H E C H E S A P E A K E F O R R E V
E A L I N G T H E S Q E C R E T S T H E B R O T H E R H O O
D S T I L L H A S F A I T H I N Y O U B I V E N S H A S F A
I T H I N Y O U I H A V E F A I T H I N Y O U P L E A S E S
T O P B E F O R E I T S T O O L A Y T E A D A M
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Deciphered using 'Seriated Playfair cipher'.
Using the alphabetic key 'to realize what your past holds, and how it defines your present'.
The length of the plain tex is 294 letters.

Plain text alphabet is 36 Letters: A,1-J,0-Z.

Character matrix:

A 5 H O G 2
1 J 8 C 7 M
K 0 I 3 V U
D X 9 Q S W
4 F L P T Y
E 6 N R B Z

The following letters are used as nulls: XYZQP
Seriated in groups of 20letters.
The following letters are used as nulls: XYZQP

Operation prepared in 421 ms.
Text processed in 0 ms.
Output formated in 0 ms.
Total running time 431 ms.



which cleaned up gives us something like this:

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Michael,

Honestly, I'm getting concerned. I wish you could just understand the
implications of what you're suggesting.

You know as well as I Bivens would have no problem sending you to the bottom of
the Chesapeake for revealing the secrets.

The brotherhood still has faith in you.

Bivens has faith in you.

I have faith in you.


Please, stop before it's too late.

Adam



Brotherhood? Secrets?

Bivens?

Seems we're taking baby steps towards something pretty big.
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Falafel
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 		Always with these brotherhoods, they are. I guess Michael's betrayed/exposed them in some way.

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Loudboy
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 		i got playfair right, but how did u figure that out?!


very very nice job on this Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:00 am
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follow your heart
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 		Well, I figured it was a Playfair, and as I stated above, it needed a 36 character set.

Standard key (to realize...)

Not that hard, really.

Just had to try a few different ways.
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Dionysus
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 		Im a little confused how you inserted numbers into playfair gird.. could you show us a copy of the grid you used?

Chesapeake?!!! Thats Maryland! Possibly Baltimore! I only live like an hour or two away from there up in PA! If there are live events, I'm goin"!
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Dionysus
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 		Sorry for the double post, but Mike has updated his LJ!

As of today (the 6th) at 10:43am:

"EVERYTHING IS WELL.

PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE.
"
No hidden text that I can find.

I'm goign to email Michael.. mention we onyl want to help and see if he'll tell em who Bivens is.
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Loudboy
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 		i do live in baltimore...bout 50-70 minutes from the cheaseapeake.
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Falafel
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 		Wait, whats all this talk of Chesapeake?

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follow your heart
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 		I used CipherClerk to solve it.

I know nothing of the technicalities of ciphers. Embarassed
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Greyelf
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 		For those who had a little problem with understanding how 'follow your heart' exelent Playfair solve works.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

The Playfair solve using CipherClerk's Applet.

1. The combo boxes across the top of the applet sould be set to:

  • Decipher
  • Polygraphic Substitution
  • Seriated Playfair Cipher


2. The text to be decrypted:

7U885R P8CR69 44LU87 NYYL3H 21HH36
BBB9U9 UTA4AV 8AKYQ8 KQ4VHQ 6BQY2H
QYOR38 4F37GY 9ARQGL D81LP2 KBZDIH
2B9B3H 74HVDB 2Q2QDB YT5DVG 995ZRW
9AKNS2 5UBRGL BGRPBC WRZQ3H ALGK4H
PO6RGY 427A44 8N8OB9 1TR136 4GBBNK
6GNKR2 4GAQDA 1B6PQP ABENGL 86ZO2G
9T49TN OGX4G3 PG9RPG 3RKSBH 9B5DT5
UP23H4 GVKGG3 RT10PO KHLGIL NZ5WN9
4G46AL GNN9YT 4GA424 BB5QH1


3.Options To Decipher:

  • Alphabetic key: to realize what your past holds, and how it defines your present
  • Character Set: 26Letters: A,1-J,0-Z
  • Alphabet Scrambled By: Interupt. Transp.
  • Fill Matrix By: Column
  • Seriation: 20
  • Nulls: XYZQP


4. Output Options (not really important)
5 Group/Line
6 Chars / Group


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 		Thanks for making up for my laziness. Laughing

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Dionysus
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Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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Location: Philadelphia Area

 		Michael has update his livejournal.

Quote:
The final city has been revealed.


Someone, please, I need your phone number.

They have me.

I need to call you.

Help.

HOpefully, as soo n


Weird hunh? I emailed him my phone number. I'll report back when/if he calls.
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Playing: Nothing, but at least Im alive

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