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[zeighy]

if it's 5... then it could be "emily" or "orein" which I did try previously and failed at.... but those two words are teh most relevant once for the cipher that I could remember at the top of my head.....

EDIT: "genus" is also possible....

[Tharol]

Figuring the five digitals there.

[Lystella]

I'll take a look at those as well. Thankies for bringing them up, zeighy! \(^_^)/

One more frequency pattern I had noticed after going back to previous Vigneres in the level 7 folders was that once both the passphrase and key were correct, the frequencies of the letters tended to be very close (almost always exact) to the frequencies of a complete solve regardless of whether the key and/or alphabet had been further altered. I'm not quite sure why, but hopefully, it applies to emily too.

[zeighy]

well, if this was the cipher that emily unlocked in 24 hours of what the challenge should have been that the cipher could take a year for a human to decipher I'd certainly say it really might take us a year... hahaha,

I'd say we can feel honored if we are able to solve it.

[Lystella]

I asked Ruby about how manually restarting the glink directory (with the Orkudusu files) would work:

[godder]

*gobbles up a handfull of cake and grins sheepishly* Cake is good! What would happen if we restart /glink? I guess we could try it and see. The problem would be getting those credentials. *shoves another handful of cake in mouth*

[Lystella]

Indeed it is! *noms on corrogation*
Good point about the credentials. I don't know where us experts fit in with the our clearance. Though, come to think of it, would there be a good reason the process was terminated, and is it a good enough reason?

Also, LAINSY update!

[zeighy]

Aaahhhh!!! It's that location cipher thing again! anybody remember how to do that?

[Lystella]

What are the chances of getting a really nice looking frequency on the Vigenere as a coincidence? (I honestly don't know, so I ask.)

[themedic274]

[godder]

Well, this is what I came up with...

15.388892, .333333333, 8.5

Everybody check me to be sure I'm correct. I remember there being a trick that has to do with the negative signs.

Since there are three coordinates this time I assume we are looking at a point in space? I guess we could feed these to lainsy and see if she can tell us where the location is. Any other ideas?

[Lystella]

In terms of taking the negative numbers into account, I found this:

[godder]

Okay, so I did them again several more times and I think I worked out all the bugs.

15.3888922, 1.11110778, 7.6111068

I'm still not getting the same as you, Lystella. Maybe I'm still doing it completely wrong. If I have time, I'll try to post my equations so you can see what I'm doing. Oh, and I totally disregard significant digits, because that's how I roll. I'm a mathematical rebel.

[Lystella]

I don't trust myself with math, so here's what I did for comparison:

[godder]