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03-29-2011, 07:00 PM
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Torchbearer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: On Lake Harriet
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ping: FOFC Enigma
Years ago we had a running puzzle called the Enigma, which was passed from solver to solver by the solver getting the Enigma (username) password correct. No username and password this time around, but we do have a real life puzzle...
FBI asks public for help breaking encrypted notes tied to 1999 murder - Yahoo! News   |
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03-29-2011, 07:11 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Hmm....I may need to take a look at this one. Not that I expect to solve it or anything...but I am stubborn enough to try it.
Some of the comments are pretty funny BTW...here's one I had a good laugh at. Quote:
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03-29-2011, 07:24 PM
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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Cool as hell. Hope some nobody crushes this.
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03-29-2011, 08:33 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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Is there any reason to think it's a code and not just a crazy dude?
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03-29-2011, 08:56 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
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It's like one of those child support stings, they already know what it says but that doesn't help them. They figure the first person to come forward to claim they have decrypted it is the culprit (knowing that person will want to feel superior to the FBI and claim that he, or she, could do somethng that they couldn't).
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03-29-2011, 08:58 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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I'm waiting to hear back from one of my uncles who is an ex-crypto guy for No Such Agency to see what he thinks about it.
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03-29-2011, 09:23 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Mar 2008
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To me it seems you have to decipher it twice. I can't read half of it.
WLD, NCBE is repeated a lot TFRNE is repeated at least twice Seems to be lots of R's, T's 2nd page there are repeats of rtse, trse and different combos of those letters. |
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03-29-2011, 10:18 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
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SE, BE, TE in there a lot together. Encrypted in pairs I thought but there are some 'words' with an odd number of letters.
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03-29-2011, 10:19 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
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dola: it may not even decrypt into English...
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03-29-2011, 10:22 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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B...E...S...U...R...E...T...O...D...R...I...N...K...Y...O...U...R...O...V...A...L...T...I...N...E
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Thinkin' of a master plan 'Cuz ain't nuthin' but sweat inside my hand So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint |
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03-29-2011, 10:27 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
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Probably reading way too much into it but was that last page written from the bottom up? The smudging looks like a print a hand may make while writing which would mean the ink on the lower notes wasn't dry yet while writing the upper part of that note.
Dammit, now I just have to figure it out... |
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