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raistlin · Kilroy Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 2

I only had 10 minutes to play around with the cypher, so no solution yet.
But the hint (FIL Pick Up) looks like it's referring to Fixed Input Length, as used in Block Cyphers (DEA and similar). Impossible (well, with a little bit of patience.. like 25000 years) to brute-force.

Do we have some other hints? I'll take a printout of the text with me today, but don't expect too much.

so long...

//edit: Just realised the numbers in italics. They're the only one being together. Having a try on that then.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:00 am

Uberg33k

I got a sound file in my email! Looking for hosting now to share it with you all, but its Michael Jackson's Beat It with something embedded into it. I'll get that cleaned up in short order hopefully.

Edit : here's the important part of the sound file. The numbers I can make out are:
25
26
121
4
126
?
35?
81
118

The original is a .wav file and about 9 megs, so I'm still trying to figure out how to share that with everyone.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:15 am

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**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:36 pm

Mod Re Flux · Boot Joined: 16 Dec 2008 Posts: 18

Newcomer here, Im pretty excited that I found an ARG to jump on that is brand spanking new.

As for uploading that file, there are a variety of free hosting sites, such as putfile.com that you can upload it it. I can get you links, but I gotta run right now.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:59 pm

Dregyn · Decorated Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 162

I got this for numbers in the sound file. Read this down. The or ones are indistinguishable.

25
26
131 (or 121)
4
136
185
88 (or 80)
81
118 (or 180)

Now what code.

EDIT:
Upon further listening (and a little help from my fiancee) I think it's:

25
26
121
4
136
185
80
81
118

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:29 pm

Dregyn · Decorated Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 162

Mod Re Flux · Boot Joined: 16 Dec 2008 Posts: 18

I quickly tried the numbers from the audio file in some of the converters on purple hell and didnt come up with anything useful. I tried them both individually and as a single string. I'll try again with the revised list, and see what happens.

Dregyn · Decorated Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 162

Purple hell?

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:16 pm

thebruce

well it could be broken into lines. starting with a number, ending with a "#."

that would produce

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**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:25 pm

Dregyn · Decorated Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 162

Well that would have been helpful forever ago. Thanks! lol

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:30 pm

redct · Entrenched Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1233

Wow, am I ever late to the party. School > ARGs for now.

Anyways, I'm in. Smile

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:33 pm

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Mod Re Flux · Boot Joined: 16 Dec 2008 Posts: 18

I took what you had and reorganized them numerically as best as I could. Its strange that some lines start and end in the same number and some dont. Perhaps thats how you string them along (I.E. Start with 1, that line ends in 1 so the next line starting with 1 goes after it, and so on and so forth).

That would get hairy with the 5's though, I dont know what the order for those would be. Also I dont understand the two random quotation marks.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:39 pm

thebruce

That's why I don't think they need to be reordered... the quotes are proper opening and closing quotes, and in reasonable places in the original text to denote encoded text and grammar... I'm thinking the numbers are key to decoding each sentence.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:46 pm

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Dregyn · Decorated Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 162

Why do I have a feeling 4 F L K C 5 = M A R T I N?
He IS a pro at this kinda thing.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:47 pm