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[kayte.meyer]

Frequency Analysis

[Tordek]

Okay, scratch all your progress because it's been officially rendered useless.

Contact with Kropp has sent me to Lex, who in turn told me:

[jdcool29]

I too was given that information 3-4 weeks ago and it hasn't helped yet.

[Transtar]

Well I kinda figured that each block wasn't a letter since there where only 9 types of blocks. After that I thought about what had components of 9: which are a num pad and a phone pad. Useing those as keys I took the sum of each row and the stated diag. I think I'm on the right track, but everything I get is pretty much gibberish. the closest thing I got was taking the phone pad key with a diagonal sum and after trying a monoalphabetic cipher, I got "ridtheworlfdofthenmonstervbeoksbb" which I think might be close, but I have to play with it a bit more.

I tried "rid the world of the monster maxwell" (since maxwell was the only longer named charecter with a double letter ending). But that was a nogo.

I think I am on the right track, the message leads me to believe that the rows are what is to be summed rather than the diag.

The only thing else I can think is to take the 0(no blue)-8(all blue) ordering of the blocks, and sum them to get a letter. I'm gonna try and do that when I get a chance though.

However, why whould they have a 0 unless it was ment as a place holder. maybe the "raw" numbers of each line have a meaning.

Thoughts?? (hope this brings a lightblub over someones head.

*sorry for the long post*

[Tordek]

0 is relative; it could very well be 1-9; and that would make the line that is currently "887" "998", 26, and that's the biggest number of the list.

Long shot, but possible

[notgordian]

While 0 is relative, there are actually 10 different types of blocks--remember, there are all blue and all brown blocks.

That "rid the world of the monster maxwell" thing sounds ridiculously close. It's a shame it didn't work.

As for things to do with large numbers, if the 0s are placeholders it would only be possible to be dealing with ASCII code if we're dealing with smaller numbers, I think. Interesting idea to try summing lines for results, though.

/me adds nothing to this conversation

[Tordek]

[notgordian]

Wow...I am out of it today . You're right, Tordek.

Heh...I said I wasn't adding anything to the conversation.

[kayte.meyer]

What if???

[Transtar]

Re: What if???

[Transtar]

Adding this in:

This is the Excel file I'm using to easly transition between all the different number combonations (phone/numpad/0-8/1-9...ect)

The base I used was if it was a num pad with 5 being an empty square.

The 2nd column "transform" can be changed by changing the second column of the key, and you can change the number > letter conversion by changing the letters in the "substitution" area.

Everything autochanges with the changes in the key and substitution.

I hope this helps... someone...

[kayte.meyer]

So I was doing some more research on this, thinking that I'd seen it somewhere before.

Anyways, take a look at this website, maybe it will ring a few bells for someone else. I haven't had a chance to try and break anything yet, but maybe it will help us get farther.

http://www.levitated.net/daily/lev9block.html

Seems like some of the symbols he's using ar similar to the ones of this nature.

[TGI Fridays]

Unicode?

[VQ.Wavecrest]

But Unicode has no triangles.
Aw... I was hoping that was it!

[TGI Fridays]

Just brainstorming - any chance "fifteen-year-old technology" could be a clue? This makes the year the technology came out 2022. Any common decryption/encryption program have 2022 in its title that uses these types of blocks?