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feeed

@Wonder_Woman said:

@feeed said:
Could it be a playfair cypher? https://www.boxentriq.com/code-breaking/playfair-cipher

The key I'm guessing is related to the italicised words in the original message:

see one position three five ring a two

The first something, at the thirty fifth position, something ring a two (interesting they're all spelled out)

Could be forum post related? Or something hidden on the vps.blackfriday website?

The italicized words are:
see one position to three five ring a two

You're missing the "to", not sure if that's important yet.

Could be a sequence of shifts, like

1. "see one position": This might mean to look at the first position.
2. "to three": This could mean to move to the third position.
3. "five ring": This might mean to move to the fifth position and then wrap around (ring) back to the start.
4. "a two": This could mean to move to the second position.

That definitely changes the message, hmmm

I on the other hand have been ringing the vps.blackfriday test alert button over and over and getting just lots of dading dadings

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Wow, need some secret code for it...

Never mind, its gone.

FrankZ

And he is gone again. That was even faster than I expected.

VirMach

A few people have noticed very important things about the puzzle, others are way off and would end up wasting an insane amount of time. One of them noticed something that really impressed me that would put you guys a big step ahead if combined with another comment. Of course I won't tell you which comment.

@FrankZ said: You have the best AI ticket system I've ever seen.

It's really really cool. I can't wait to enable the feature where the AI can actually take (some) actions. Feels like magic. A lot of times when it says it's going to be doing something, that means it has that ability in the backend but it's just being rejected by default. There's a whole action queueing system.

"Hey I want to upgrade my service"

"Did you mean you want to DELETE your account? I've gone ahead and processed this for you. Goodbye."

Wonder_Woman

@VirMach said:
A few people have noticed very important things about the puzzle, others are way off and would end up wasting an insane amount of time. One of them noticed something that really impressed me that would put you guys a big step ahead if combined with another comment. Of course I won't tell you which comment.

Oh no

Wonder_Woman

I'm gambling on the step ahead being the playfair cipher, as I'm starting to think the 5 character "words" in the instructions should be used in a grid

EDIT: And, as we've previous seen, I'm a glutton for wasting a ton of time on things when it's much simpler than I anticipated.

localhost

@Wonder_Woman said:
I'm gambling on the step ahead being the playfair cipher, as I'm starting to think the 5 character "words" in the instructions should be used in a grid

EDIT: And, as we've previous seen, I'm a glutton for wasting a ton of time on things when it's much simpler than I anticipated.

but you are our only hope...

VirMach

@Wonder_Woman said:
I'm gambling on the step ahead being the playfair cipher, as I'm starting to think the 5 character "words" in the instructions should be used in a grid

EDIT: And, as we've previous seen, I'm a glutton for wasting a ton of time on things when it's much simpler than I anticipated.

Okay I'm going to step in here because you're probably going to play a pivotal role in this actually being solved if it is solved, and we're already three hours in (and it's not looking good.) It's not the playfair cipher. There are some indirect connections, similarities in purpose. There's a reason for the grouping for both. Both the playfair and the other were used during an important time period.

Wonder_Woman

Well that was short lived for @Flying_Chinaman

skorous

Enigma?

user123

@Wonder_Woman said:
Well that was short lived for @Flying_Chinaman

vyas

@localhost said:

@Wonder_Woman said:
I'm gambling on the step ahead being the playfair cipher, as I'm starting to think the 5 character "words" in the instructions should be used in a grid

EDIT: And, as we've previous seen, I'm a glutton for wasting a ton of time on things when it's much simpler than I anticipated.

but you are our only hope...

Wonder Woman is (also) Obi Won ??

cybertech

i didn't sign up for da vinci code

superman

@VirMach said:

@Wonder_Woman said:
I'm gambling on the step ahead being the playfair cipher, as I'm starting to think the 5 character "words" in the instructions should be used in a grid

EDIT: And, as we've previous seen, I'm a glutton for wasting a ton of time on things when it's much simpler than I anticipated.

Okay I'm going to step in here because you're probably going to play a pivotal role in this actually being solved if it is solved, and we're already three hours in (and it's not looking good.) It's not the playfair cipher. There are some indirect connections, similarities in purpose. There's a reason for the grouping for both. Both the playfair and the other were used during an important time period.

Vigenère cipher?

Wonder_Woman

@VirMach said:

@Wonder_Woman said:
I'm gambling on the step ahead being the playfair cipher, as I'm starting to think the 5 character "words" in the instructions should be used in a grid

EDIT: And, as we've previous seen, I'm a glutton for wasting a ton of time on things when it's much simpler than I anticipated.

Okay I'm going to step in here because you're probably going to play a pivotal role in this actually being solved if it is solved, and we're already three hours in (and it's not looking good.) It's not the playfair cipher. There are some indirect connections, similarities in purpose. There's a reason for the grouping for both. Both the playfair and the other were used during an important time period.

Oh no x2

Wonder_Woman

@superman said:

@VirMach said:

@Wonder_Woman said:
I'm gambling on the step ahead being the playfair cipher, as I'm starting to think the 5 character "words" in the instructions should be used in a grid

EDIT: And, as we've previous seen, I'm a glutton for wasting a ton of time on things when it's much simpler than I anticipated.

Okay I'm going to step in here because you're probably going to play a pivotal role in this actually being solved if it is solved, and we're already three hours in (and it's not looking good.) It's not the playfair cipher. There are some indirect connections, similarities in purpose. There's a reason for the grouping for both. Both the playfair and the other were used during an important time period.

Vigenère cipher?

That's what I was thinking previously, but I thought I was the one who wasn't on the right track. Maybe I'm still not...

VirMach

@skorous said:
Enigma?

Rare photo of @Wonder_Woman

user123

@skorous said:
Enigma?

I'm still playing around with it, but seems the most promising based on nothing but @VirMach's clues lol xD

Wonder_Woman

@user123 said:

@skorous said:
Enigma?

I'm still playing around with it, but seems the most promising based on nothing but @VirMach's clues lol xD

Yeah, the "Instructions" do look like output from Enigma Machine, and the emphasized words might line up with rotor and ring settings

user123

@Wonder_Woman said:

@user123 said:

@skorous said:
Enigma?

I'm still playing around with it, but seems the most promising based on nothing but @VirMach's clues lol xD

Yeah, the "Instructions" do look like output from Enigma Machine, and the emphasized words might line up with rotor and ring settings

Yeah, it's just that there's a lot of missing information about what lines up where :P

VirMach

Thinking about the differences between a VirMach deal thread and what's going on in the other OGF thread made me chuckle a little bit. "We've doubled your bandwidth!" versus "here's a cipher, you have 10 hours. This WW2 museum photo will help."

vyas

@VirMach said:
Thinking about the differences between a VirMach deal thread and what's going on in the other OGF thread made me chuckle a little bit. "We've doubled your bandwidth!" versus "here's a cipher, you have 10 hours. This WW2 museum photo will help."

You can double the timeline to break the cipher

user123

@vyas said:

@VirMach said:
Thinking about the differences between a VirMach deal thread and what's going on in the other OGF thread made me chuckle a little bit. "We've doubled your bandwidth!" versus "here's a cipher, you have 10 hours. This WW2 museum photo will help."

You can double the timeline to break the cipher

And double the discount and double the clues to break the cipher :P

vyas

@user123 said:

@vyas said:

@VirMach said:
Thinking about the differences between a VirMach deal thread and what's going on in the other OGF thread made me chuckle a little bit. "We've doubled your bandwidth!" versus "here's a cipher, you have 10 hours. This WW2 museum photo will help."

You can double the timeline to break the cipher

And double the discount and double the clues to break the cipher :P

Virmach can also double the complexity of the cipher

superman

@VirMach said:

@skorous said:
Enigma?

Rare photo of @Wonder_Woman

https://www.soler7.com/IFAQ/Enigma.htm

The picture may come from here

tuc

The only thing I found is the encryption was done using substitution cipher. However, combination of two different algorithms of this approach makes super hard decrypting.

tuc

It's much harder than reverse engineering a flutter app which was obfuscated

FrankZ

@superman said:

@VirMach said:

@skorous said:
Enigma?

Rare photo of @Wonder_Woman

https://www.soler7.com/IFAQ/Enigma.htm

The picture may come from here

The repetition of the message key was a weakness of the Enigma system and was the starting point of Rejewski's attack. Specifically, there was a relationship between the first and fourth letters of the initial six-letter message, as well as between the 2nd and 5th, and the 3rd and 6th. If he got enough intercepted messages Rejewski could compile a table of correspondences between the first and fourth letters under the current day key, eg the letters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz would be turned into qaweszxdrtfcvgyuhbnjiokmlp. He would compile similar tables using the 2nd and 5th positions, and the 3rd and 6th. Rejewski looked for patterns in these tables and focused on cycle length. Thus B might be encrypted as G, G as F, F as R and then R as B, completing a cycle of length 5.

feeed

Looking at enigma:

There are some configuration options for the decoder:

Rotors ⚙ (from left to right) (Walzenlage)
Reflector ⇄ (UmKehrWalze)
Positions of rings ∘ (Ringstellung)
Positions of rotors ⌖ (Grundstellung)
Connections pairs (Steckerverbindungen)

Trying various combinations, and guessing stuff, but it's really a stretch

see one position to three five ring a two

Rotors: "see" = C?
Positions of rotors: "position to" = 5, 5, 5? 2, 3, 5?
Position of rings: "ring a" = A?

FrankZ

So I am thinking the comment

You'll see that one of you might not be in the position to figure it out, but maybe three or five might ring a bell or two

has to do with the rotor position ring on the enigma machine.

The instructions

qlorm calwe aiyvf tdcqm ofvqf ieiqm ydoek phmbx poquf cgwgy fbibm lvgps cbpqa ooshf vimrk awpti qwfmn oddyk xaywg >gunjo niwdm sqaem mhgaq isnwz xqabu xuxmg sbmqt uapyf tfrpu yzlqv mffkd zqyvg eksnb tvyih bglzv pjyvt zdmjo kletq rgnal >wgmdl axwfd gcyfp lucye vfsjz

look like the ciphertext expected for input to enigma. But I am getting nothing but garbage so far.

EDIT: Ok, Wonder_Woman said this better a hour ago. So I am well behind the leader.