The FBI Needs You to Solve this Code
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Wouldn't your average high school dropouts amateur code be harder to break. He will likely not conform to any rules normally used in cryptography, hes making it up as he goes. Being a high school drop out also makes it less likely for him to have studied books on the subject. He could have just seen the Da Vinc Code, thought it was cool and began making his own.
For that mater it might not be a code, just short hand mixed with a homemade language or mutant phonetic spellings. There's several letter combos there that could be interpenetrated as shortened words but no recognizable punctuation or word structure otherwise. Punctuation could be hidden or nonexistent. It takes forever to piece together ancient, lost languages, and that's with a library of examples, not just two scraps of paper.
If I had to hazard a guess, I would say the numbers are not part of the code though.
That'd be a simple, reasonable solution, yes.thingymuwatsit said:
No, that wouldn't help, unless everyone involving in trying to break it (and by extension, the world) has somehow overlooked something fundamental about ciphers that he managed to think up himself.mazeut said:
That would be perfectly possible, yes. If you're mucking around with some form of language you've invented yourself, it's much more like a code than a cipher.mazeut said:
No one else seems to have mentioned it yet, but a code isn't the same as a cipher. A cipher is where you play around with the letters and replace them with other letters or numbers or so on. A code is completely different, it's where you replace entire words or phrases.
For example, if I say "Hello there", I mean "Hello there", but if I say "Hi there" I mean "the lizard people are coming for you".
You can't crack a code simply by sticking in a computer, you have to find a codebook or someone who knows the code. Alternatively, you can wait until the code has been used lots of times, and carefully watch the people giving and sending the messages and see what they do, but there's no guarantees that way.
i've been doing cryptography for a while..
and it looks like he's using more than one cipher..aswell as brackets... but without the context of the encryption or cipher nobody will ever know what it meens.
and it looks like he's using more than one cipher..aswell as brackets... but without the context of the encryption or cipher nobody will ever know what it meens.
GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First note:
This cycle of misery ends with me.
I am haunted by thoughts about apples and trees, I will shield S&S from a life filled with confusion, questioned allegiances, guilt, hopelessness, codependence, and insecurity.
We both loved each other but the evil world had its way. All that's good turns bad. All that's bad turns worse. It was a relationship filled with drinking and drug use. It became toxic and dysfunctional until it became violent. Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.
First note:
This cycle of misery ends with me.
I am haunted by thoughts about apples and trees, I will shield S&S from a life filled with confusion, questioned allegiances, guilt, hopelessness, codependence, and insecurity.
We both loved each other but the evil world had its way. All that's good turns bad. All that's bad turns worse. It was a relationship filled with drinking and drug use. It became toxic and dysfunctional until it became violent. Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.
"Note to self, need more notebook paper. Ran out of room on the last peace so i couldn't write down the key"
So this might well be another pointless endeavor that there is no strict answer to, making this either somebody trolling us or a convoluted FBI recruitment test.thaluikhain said: