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BlackRectum · Boot Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 27

Help me crack a cypher

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:57 pm

BlackRectum · Boot Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 27

Oh, I ran it through a frequency table, and the letter frequency seems to match that of the English language - like its a 94 char anagram or something

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:29 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

I count 98, but your analysis seems sound.
In which case...
Good luck! Unless there's a regular pattern/key for the reordering, that should be nigh impossible to figure out. Doesn't appear to be a simple columnar transposition. Forward or backward.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:15 pm

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BlackRectum · Boot Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 27

ya, 98 - my bad.

I noticed that there were no numbers mixed in the cipher so I guess it isn't a tricky conversion from base-26 numbers to some other base.

Also can't be an MD5 hash.

The author of the cipher is an English major (from my deductions of which friend could have done this).

In the first email he says

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:24 pm

BlackRectum · Boot Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 27

I ran the ciphertext through each of the ciphers solvers at http://www.cryptool-online.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=29&lang=en using sales, and salesman as the key where ever it was possible to use a key - nothing

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:10 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

The "key" can be cryptogrammed into "custodians". (Provided you 'do' custodians Wink

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Or... about 100 other words.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:13 pm

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catherwood-offline · Guest

hey, i solved it! (and i'm still at work, ha!)

The stuff in spoiler blocks will look much better if you paste it into a notepad and change to a monospaced font. If i used the CODE tag here, the spoiler bars won't cover them up.

step 1:

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:53 pm

BlackRectum · Boot Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 27

wow, thank you. my instinct to take the puzzle here paid off in gold. I'll post the next puzzle he sends

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:06 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Good work, catherwood! I wondered about all the "X"s and even got them all in the last row of the transpose. Didn't even think of reordering the rows.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:36 am

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BlackRectum · Boot Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 27

Thanks for all the help so far. I just received the next cipher

y25u9*hyx*7kp*foro-b*7q*y3sow2pq*0wv4umoy*7kt-*3o0sb*5g3*0s*v7q6*wt*98w*ms7*41k2*21hj

any suggestions where to even start?

**Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:55 pm

catherwood

**Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:55 am

BlackRectum · Boot Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 27

No hints with this one. It just arrived in my inbox with no subject, or salutation.

I'm pretty stumped too

**Posted:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:25 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Running thru a leet translator, and removing the non-letters makes it look like something solvable, but no luck for me Sad

http://www.jayssite.com/stuff/l33t/l33t_translator.html

yzsug hyx tkp foro b tq yesowzpq owvaumoy tkt eoosb sge os vtqg wt gbw mst aikz zihj

**Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:36 pm