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."
@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.
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.
@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.
@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 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.
@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 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 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...
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."
@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."
@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 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
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.
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.
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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
Wow, need some secret code for it...
Never mind, its gone.
And he is gone again. That was even faster than I expected.
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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.
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."
Oh no
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...
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.
Well that was short lived for @Flying_Chinaman
Enigma?
Wonder Woman is (also) Obi Won ??
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i didn't sign up for da vinci code
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Vigenère cipher?
Oh no x2
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...
Rare photo of @Wonder_Woman
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
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
blog | exploring visually |
And double the discount and double the clues to break the cipher :P
Virmach can also double the complexity of the cipher
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https://www.soler7.com/IFAQ/Enigma.htm
The picture may come from here
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.
Virmach Deals
It's much harder than reverse engineering a flutter app which was obfuscated
Virmach Deals
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.
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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
Rotors: "see" = C?
Positions of rotors: "position to" = 5, 5, 5? 2, 3, 5?
Position of rings: "ring a" = A?
So I am thinking the comment
has to do with the rotor position ring on the enigma machine.
The instructions
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.
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