nonconformist
Miserable
It's not mathematical?
The X^2 reminds me all-too-much of X squared.
The X^2 reminds me all-too-much of X squared.
Challenge! Decode this text
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@anarres: you don't need hex. The translation is a text, in English.
@stormbind: You don't logarithmic functions. There is a complex algorithm either. In fact, I could read it quite quickly once a few manipulation have been done.
The translated text contains letters and the following characters " , .
It it case sensitive.
The keyboard place of the characters is very important when coding the text. But not when deciphering it. A character in the code has a unique translation.
varwnos : There is one number in the decoded text. What make you thik that I and A are necessarilly encoded by one character?
@masquerouge : yes, capitalized letters are important
@Sparta: the coding does not use 26 characters... In fact, you can 't solve it if you think in direct character substitution. As I said, it's more subtile thant that. There is a substitution. But not character for character.
@Truronian: space are encoded as space.
The caps symbol and repeating word aren't diversions
@Gelion: the decoded text is plain English. However, it contains some words which are proper names, and that you may not know. Spaces represent spaces. It's a 1:1 substituion. Except you should not substitude character to character...
@Masquerouge: hard to answer. Two word which are related when coded are related when decoded... Because they have roughly the same length and some common part. But that should not help much
@stormbind : it's a bit more than a different character set. Your remark about an extended alphabet is a good one. It is not reallyu made specificaly for this puzzle. It's something "well" known, but adapted to this puzzle (or I would say adapted for my own usage, and I use it for the puzzle).
@Masquerouge: the fact you have letters or symbols is not very relevent for the problem to solve. In fact, not relevent at all.
@Sparta
@Sparta and Masquerouge : I don't think trying to find what character are in or not will help you much
@Mathilda: the keyboard has an importance. In fact, when composing the message, I used an English configuration keyboard.
However, you don't need to know the actual keyboard configuration to decipher the message, only to write it relatively quickly.
@RoddyVR: the carriage return just mark an end of paragraph
@nonconformist : it's not mathematical
I'll give another free hint. The software that can be normally found on any computer is used to transform all these letters into something else very quickly once you know how. Then, the result should be easier to decipher, or at least give some hints.
@anarres: you don't need hex. The translation is a text, in English.
@stormbind: You don't logarithmic functions. There is a complex algorithm either. In fact, I could read it quite quickly once a few manipulation have been done.
The translated text contains letters and the following characters " , .
It it case sensitive.
The keyboard place of the characters is very important when coding the text. But not when deciphering it. A character in the code has a unique translation.
varwnos : There is one number in the decoded text. What make you thik that I and A are necessarilly encoded by one character?
@masquerouge : yes, capitalized letters are important
@Sparta: the coding does not use 26 characters... In fact, you can 't solve it if you think in direct character substitution. As I said, it's more subtile thant that. There is a substitution. But not character for character.
@Truronian: space are encoded as space.
Indeed.
The caps symbol and repeating word aren't diversions
@Gelion: the decoded text is plain English. However, it contains some words which are proper names, and that you may not know. Spaces represent spaces. It's a 1:1 substituion. Except you should not substitude character to character...
@Masquerouge: hard to answer. Two word which are related when coded are related when decoded... Because they have roughly the same length and some common part. But that should not help much
@stormbind : it's a bit more than a different character set. Your remark about an extended alphabet is a good one. It is not reallyu made specificaly for this puzzle. It's something "well" known, but adapted to this puzzle (or I would say adapted for my own usage, and I use it for the puzzle).
@Masquerouge: the fact you have letters or symbols is not very relevent for the problem to solve. In fact, not relevent at all.
@Sparta
Perhaps because single-character words in the cipher do not necessarilly correspond to single-character words in the plain text? And vice versa
@Sparta and Masquerouge : I don't think trying to find what character are in or not will help you much
@Mathilda: the keyboard has an importance. In fact, when composing the message, I used an English configuration keyboard.
However, you don't need to know the actual keyboard configuration to decipher the message, only to write it relatively quickly.
@RoddyVR: the carriage return just mark an end of paragraph
@nonconformist : it's not mathematical
I'll give another free hint. The software that can be normally found on any computer is used to transform all these letters into something else very quickly once you know how. Then, the result should be easier to decipher, or at least give some hints.
Yek yek yek.stormbind said:
Blasphemous
Graulich
I'm not very experienced with this kind of decryption (nor any other kind for that matter) and I'm not going to devote the great amounts of time needed to decrypt this alone right now, so I'll just give my two cents every now and then.
One idea that came to mind is that when the Shift key is used this is represented in a way different from the normal capitalization that results, and that in turn capitalized letters represent something else, perhaps the same thing that was used to replace capitalization - a 1:1 switch.
One idea that came to mind is that when the Shift key is used this is represented in a way different from the normal capitalization that results, and that in turn capitalized letters represent something else, perhaps the same thing that was used to replace capitalization - a 1:1 switch.
It's simplier than that. And more complex at the same time.stormbind said:Unicode character map?
@Blasphemous : I'm not sure I understand what you mean... But I can tell a capitalized letter is not related to the non capitalized one. It's just another character. So I have more than 26 at my disposal...
@all: about the 1:1 substitution. A character in the cypher translate into one unique "something". However, the "something" can translate into different characters in the cypher, althought there is a rule for that (i.e. it's not random)
Blasphemous
Graulich
I just realized what I meant was basically the fairly obvious idea that 'A' and 'a' are separate characters both in decoding and in encoding. ><
nonconformist
Miserable
Would it be translatable using Word?
Word can help to transform it into something else that is easier to translate, or at least give a big hint where to find some help to decipher it.
However, Word alone is not enough. You need a little something else.
However, Word alone is not enough. You need a little something else.
nonconformist
Miserable
Fine, is a micrisoft utility used commonly by blue-collar workers,
et, pour l'amour du ciel, Steph, donnez nous quelque-chose
et, pour l'amour du ciel, Steph, donnez nous quelque-chose
Code:
From RoddyVR's list:
10
.. =
7
.. \
7
.. lT
6
.. !
6
.. @
5
.. Q
4
.. -
4
.. 2^x#5
4
.. nE£
4
.. Z
3
.. ~N6z|
3
.. lEÅ
3
.. lT¥
3
.. w&1= and @ are common entities, and they also appear together as = @. They are not assumed to be one letter words.
Could they be any two words, such as IN THE?
P.S. I do not have MS Word. I have MS Notepad
You don't actually need Word. Any text editing program that has the require functionnality can be used.
Notepad is not one of theml. but wordpad is.
OpenOffice can be used to.
Notepad is not one of theml. but wordpad is.
OpenOffice can be used to.
Some common words, such as the, and, or could indeed be represented by a single character
Blasphemous
Graulich
Has it got anything at all to do with fonts?
More generally - is the code based on the shapes of the characters?
Or is it perhaps a mathematical code?
More generally - is the code based on the shapes of the characters?
Or is it perhaps a mathematical code?
A few things that haven't worked:
Font swapping
Internet searches
An idea for those that can touch type:
Try turning the keyboard around and touch typing that way
Font swapping
Internet searches
An idea for those that can touch type:
Try turning the keyboard around and touch typing that way
Using the correct font will help
nonconformist
Miserable
Wait...I think there's the word "Nazi" in there...am I correct steph?
Steph said:
Iv tried all the symbol fonts
Is it a font that cant display certain symbols, thus eliminating them?
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