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[RobMagus]

[EMAIL] Pi

[SkaterAl]

I don't know if this will help, but I reverse checked his e-mail address, and the name listed is:

first name: Ander
last name: Alex

So, maybe a clue that the code is reversed in some way?

[Ciaran_H]

A few different interpretations of the code, in case it helps anybody else. Punctuation has been preserved in relation to the position of the word it comes after.

Original:
9099, c7i n7iezg 790 6v 6ly4d f1y2. mdw2l 0v 4109g16m12y, btt mzyx.

Original split up into lengths of pi:
909, 9 c7in 7 iezg7 906v6ly4d f1. y2mdw2 l0v41 09g, 16m12 ybttmzyx.

Original reversed:
xyzm, ttb y21m61g9014 v0 l2wdm 2y1f d4yl6. v6 097 gzei7n, i7c 9909.

Original reversed and split into lengths of pi:
xyz, m ttby 2 1m61g 9014v0l2w dm. 2y1fd4 yl6v6 097, gzei7 ni7c9909.

When I split it into lengths of pi, the last word has 8 characters, not 9, so splitting it up like that is possibly a red herring. Hope this helps somebody... I can't make anything of it at the moment, but then it's getting late here...

[SkaterAl]

for the two words with two letters (6v and 0v), the "v" should be the same letter. Some common two letter words that could work are listed below:

as-is
as-us
is-us

an-in
an-on
in-on

at-it

do-go
do-to
go-to

if-of

[RobMagus]

Well... what if the digits of pi are being used to indicate how far to ROT the text?

Then the "v"s wouldn't necessarily have to stand for the same thing.

Also, if the ROTing key were 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, then the digits in the ciphertext could be accounted for.

I tried this specific one on the subject and got gibberish, but it seems like an idea we can work with.

Thoughts?

[SkaterAl]

something of interest, but I don't know if it is relevent to solving the code:

If you take the kf8 from the subject, without using the 8, if you ROT-12 it, you get "w" and "r", which are the letters of the next word, and if you ROT-14 wr, you get kf.

Ideas on this or is it junk?

[RobMagus]

A response from Alexander.

[RobMagus]

Reply!

[RobMagus]

And a reply to 42. Seems that Alexander is on right now.

[RobMagus]

Here's the picture.

http://www.bradthegame.com/jones/black-hat.jpg

It's a jones soda label.

I wish I could put the picture from the email up so people could play with it and steg.

The two pictures appear to be the same, at least visually.

[RedKnight]

Having already shown a knowledge of 1337, black hats is most likely refering to the kind of people who like to break into and do malicious things to other people's computers. For a better definition check out this entry in the jargon file http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/black-hat.html

RedKnight

[Ciaran_H]

[Hati]

Sounds reasonable to me.

[Rasputin42x69]

[RobMagus]

Okay, so I'm not up-and-up on my leetspeek. :j

Any other ideas on the first email?