Just got an e-mail from a certain "friend" of mine. Any thoughts?
"Have Fun:
35 30 20 33 61 20 35 63 20 34 61 20 37 36 20 36 31 20 37 31 20 36 32 20 36 61 20 36 36 20 35 63 20 35 39 20 36 32 20 37 34 20 36 36 20 35 63 20 35 30 20 34 66 20 34 36 20 35 63 20 37 61 20 36 63 20 36 31 20 37 36 20 37 34 20 37 35 20 36 37 20 36 32 20 36 31 20 36 37 20 37 35 20 37 32 20 36 37 20 36 32 20 36 61 20 36 31 20 32 65 20 37 37 20 36 33 20 37 34
-TA"
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Can you tell us about your "friend"?
ReplyDeleteThinking that TA indicates TheArsonist, Katie :)
ReplyDeleteDang... doesn't translate to anything through my decoders. My next (far-fetched) guess would be coordinates of some kind...?
ReplyDeleteGood luck.
I'm glad to hear that you're committed to this 100%, Damien. Most would take the selfish route and just try to dodge the situation as long as they could. Not you, though.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I'm horrible at these puzzles. I find it odd that The Arsonist would throw something like this at us at this point.
A puzzle like this when he seems so aggressive to get things finished, it almost seems like a diversion...
Probably nothing, almost certainly nothing, but if you run the numbers through a hexadecimal translator and then translate the text back through the hex translator here, you get what looks almost exactly like the location of a file on a hard-drive.
ReplyDeleteP:\Jvaqbjf\Ybtf\POF\zlavtugbagurgbja.wct
Just so you guys know, .wct files are a valid filetype, a visual basic file.
That's all I've got at the moment.
Upon further inspection, there is a type of cryptography where plaintext can be enciphered as a string of double-digit numbers. If this is the case we need a key to crack it and somebody with some cryptography skillz.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought, and I tried a frequency analysis but if you look at the twenties, they show up every two numbers. So I don't know what to do with it.
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean now, yeah. They must be there as delimiters or some sort of regulator for whatever code, I don't know. Crypto isn't my big strength.
ReplyDeleteUPDATE: I put the result from the double hex'd location through a ROT13 encryption on a hunch, and we have a winner!
ReplyDeleteC:\Windows\Logs\CBS\mynightonthetown.jpg