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digamma
03-29-2011, 07:00 PM
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 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/fbi-asks-public-for-help-breaking-encrypted-notes-tied-to-1999-murder)

http://mit.zenfs.com/102/2011/03/image_large.jpg
http://mit.zenfs.com/102/2011/03/image_large-1.jpg
SteveMax58
03-29-2011, 07:11 PM
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.

It's my 2010 performance review with all of the reasons I didn't earn a raise. I'd recognize my bosses logic and handwriting anywhere!
QuikSand
03-29-2011, 07:24 PM
Cool as hell. Hope some nobody crushes this.
Passacaglia
03-29-2011, 08:33 PM
Is there any reason to think it's a code and not just a crazy dude?
EagleFan
03-29-2011, 08:56 PM
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). :)
cartman
03-29-2011, 08:58 PM
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.
Saul Goode
03-29-2011, 09:23 PM
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.
EagleFan
03-29-2011, 10:18 PM
SE, BE, TE in there a lot together. Encrypted in pairs I thought but there are some 'words' with an odd number of letters.
EagleFan
03-29-2011, 10:19 PM
dola: it may not even decrypt into English...
cartman
03-29-2011, 10:22 PM
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
EagleFan
03-29-2011, 10:27 PM
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...