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So you wanna be a codebreaker?

Started by Brazen, December 01, 2011, 06:25:59 AM

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DontSayBanana

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Throwing some descriptions of what I'm doing in here, just for shits and giggles.  Right now, I'm counting off the individual values.  That should tell me what kind of data I'm looking at- if there are 26 values, I can be pretty sure that it's alphabetic characters, 27 probably means alpha plus spaces, and 36 and 37 would suggest the same thing with the inclusion of Arabic digits.

EDIT: Of course, this is a first pass, and I'm assuming a direct cipher.  There are ways (usually involving modulo) to map the same value to multiple characters, depending on context.
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Quote from: DGuller on December 01, 2011, 09:00:53 AM
WTF is this supposed to be?  It's hard to break a code if you don't even know what the end result should look like.  Is the end result a letter, a word, a gibberish number/letter combination, or a sentence?

I think you meant to post this on Yahoo.
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Another observation... 41 and 42 are the only couplets that appear more than three times in a row, and always to the end of the line.  That probably means they're bloat characters to fill up space.
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Grey Fox

I'm pretty sure first page is Assembly code.

Also it's step 1 of 3.

Also, the page is feeding out asp. Could be easier to SQL inject it & hack the answer.
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Quote from: Grey Fox on December 01, 2011, 11:00:24 AM
I'm pretty sure first page is Assembly code.

Also it's step 1 of 3.

Also, the page is feeding out asp. Could be easier to SQL inject it & hack the answer.

Actually, it reads like an 802.xx packet capture, come to think of it.
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Quote from: fahdiz on December 01, 2011, 10:52:54 AM
Quote from: DGuller on December 01, 2011, 09:00:53 AM
WTF is this supposed to be?  It's hard to break a code if you don't even know what the end result should look like.  Is the end result a letter, a word, a gibberish number/letter combination, or a sentence?

I think you meant to post this on Yahoo.

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Quote from: fahdiz on December 01, 2011, 10:52:54 AM
Quote from: DGuller on December 01, 2011, 09:00:53 AM
WTF is this supposed to be?  It's hard to break a code if you don't even know what the end result should look like.  Is the end result a letter, a word, a gibberish number/letter combination, or a sentence?

I think you meant to post this on Yahoo.
:face: Douche.  Err, I mean touche.

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QuoteSo you wanna be a codebreaker

No.  Citybreaker.
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Quote from: DGuller on December 01, 2011, 11:57:46 AM
:face: Douche.  Err, I mean touche.

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