Sunday, August 8, 2010

Messaged...

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"

9 comments:

  1. Can you tell us about your "friend"?

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  2. Thinking that TA indicates TheArsonist, Katie :)

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  3. Dang... doesn't translate to anything through my decoders. My next (far-fetched) guess would be coordinates of some kind...?
    Good luck.

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  4. 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.

    That 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...

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  5. 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.
    P:\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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. That'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.

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  8. I 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.

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  9. UPDATE: I put the result from the double hex'd location through a ROT13 encryption on a hunch, and we have a winner!
    C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\mynightonthetown.jpg

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