I was gonna chime back in to the thread I was in earlier but Kyno shut it down. While I do enjoy the long Road Ahead reads, this puzzle is quite glorious and meets all my expectations for today, even if it dropped at 11pm(eastern). Well done, @CG_SBCrumb
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
Assuming for a moment I am correct about it being a Polybius cipher, there now exists a distinct possibility our friend CG_Crumb took it a step farther and over encrypted it.
Why? Because the name for the most popular overencryption of a Polybius cipher is a Nihilist cipher. Nihilus=Nihilist? It's a maybe to be sure but given that this is more of a stumper than most clues, this level of complexity would make sense.
Can you double-cipher something without it turning into mush? Like put it in one cipher, then that code into another?
Oh yes. Makes it very hard to translate without the key. If you have the key, you're golden. A standard google search came up with some tools that may help folks ti understand the cipher system but not necessarily translate this message.
Crap. Based on the little research I did (just now) the bottom looks like a Caesar key. But then that leaves the top as nonsense.
Assuming for a moment I am correct about it being a Polybius cipher, there now exists a distinct possibility our friend CG_Crumb took it a step farther and over encrypted it.
Why? Because the name for the most popular overencryption of a Polybius cipher is a Nihilist cipher. Nihilus=Nihilist? It's a maybe to be sure but given that this is more of a stumper than most clues, this level of complexity would make sense.
Or [insert funny meme of dog sitting at a keyboard, with text "I have no idea what I'm doing"]
Tsuo_Vook believes it could be a Playfair cipher instead which may be easier to decrypt than a Nihilist keyed Polybius cipher.
There is a chance, albeit a slim one, that both ciphers were used. That however would be very, very difficult to decipher without a lot of time and skills which belies the point of this puzzle being meant to be solved by anyone with the right idea.
"Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen...mostly"
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
It has to be this. I used a decoder tool online and the first section reads “the road ahead is a” and then turns to gibberish.
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
Nice, newershadow. That confirms what I just did by hand. Hadn't figured out that the weird characters on the end were a web address, though---I was wondering if there was just an extra cypher I'd been missing.
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
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Corrected hex is:
45 55 55 4B 41 49 5A 59 55 51 59 5A 4B 4D 49 5D 4F 54 58 59 4D 4E 4F 4E 4F 45 55 51 4F 5A 54 4D 4F 43 58 47 56 52 48 4E 58 49 45 55 54 4D 43 4B 55 4D 4B 59 44 4D 55 4B 42 41 54 4B
ASCII conversion:
EUUKAIZYUQYZKMI]OTXYMNONOEUQOZTMOCXGVRHNXIEUTMCKUMKYDMUKBATK
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
Crap. Based on the little research I did (just now) the bottom looks like a Caesar key. But then that leaves the top as nonsense.
Maybe related to this
https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/16756/the-pyramid-code
Or [insert funny meme of dog sitting at a keyboard, with text "I have no idea what I'm doing"]
There is a chance, albeit a slim one, that both ciphers were used. That however would be very, very difficult to decipher without a lot of time and skills which belies the point of this puzzle being meant to be solved by anyone with the right idea.
You got it, I think.
Solved using this webpage: https://www.dcode.fr/playfair-cipher
Message: THEROADAHEADISCOMINGSOXONTHEWAITWILXLBEWORTHITBITLYNAVERIDEI
(The Road Ahead is coming so/on. The wait wil/l be worth it. bit.ly/naveridei)
http://bit.ly/naveridei gives this image:
https://media.makeameme.org/created/friday-so-close-iao49b.jpg
It has to be this. I used a decoder tool online and the first section reads “the road ahead is a” and then turns to gibberish.
Well that’s kind of a downer lol
I'm happy with anyone who's canon.
Notice that the link at the end has Revan spelled backwards?
Nice, newershadow. That confirms what I just did by hand. Hadn't figured out that the weird characters on the end were a web address, though---I was wondering if there was just an extra cypher I'd been missing.
Good job!
Got it
Also, thank you Carrie. Figuring out the last little bit from that clip was extremely fun.
(Now if only I wasn't WAAAAY behind on farming KOTOR characters...)
bit.ly/naveridej
They should at least throw some shards your way for solving it.
It’s reven the short url says “revan I never died” I don’t know his story well but it seems to fit.
Check it out people! Revan is coming!
i can't believe i didn't see this