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Okay, now, plan of attack:
We've got fifteen entries in the parsec table. I can see two very general ways to try to use this.
1) The fifteen entries may each correspond to one cypher-key character, which would mean we can take the table plus the dials and find a key for decoding the message text @CG_SBCrumb gave us. Then just apply the same fifteen-character cyper-key string through repetition, a bit like the polyalphabetic(?) cypher someone mentioned earlier. This strategy leaves us with the problem of what to read off the dial once we've got it set correctly. I've had a couple thoughts on this, but it's not obvious to me yet.
2) The dials may combine with the cypher-text in Crumb's message in some way, where we set the dials and then find the associated character in the dial, and do something based on that. This has some obvious problems, though, because we've got characters repeated in the dials.
Another possibility, although I haven't figured out how to get this to work either:
3) The dials may give us the plaintext after some sort of manipulation I'm still not clear on. Arguing against this is that I don't have any idea how to get to that point. Arguing for this is the fact that we know every character appears in the dials, meaning that every character can be obtained through them. Then again, maybe that's just an argument for why the dials should be the cypher keys (since keys for many cyphers need to include every character in some way).
Going to try to play around some more, maybe see if I can manipulate the dial images manually on my computer. Anyone have any thoughts?
We've got fifteen entries in the parsec table. I can see two very general ways to try to use this.
1) The fifteen entries may each correspond to one cypher-key character, which would mean we can take the table plus the dials and find a key for decoding the message text @CG_SBCrumb gave us. Then just apply the same fifteen-character cyper-key string through repetition, a bit like the polyalphabetic(?) cypher someone mentioned earlier. This strategy leaves us with the problem of what to read off the dial once we've got it set correctly. I've had a couple thoughts on this, but it's not obvious to me yet.
2) The dials may combine with the cypher-text in Crumb's message in some way, where we set the dials and then find the associated character in the dial, and do something based on that. This has some obvious problems, though, because we've got characters repeated in the dials.
Another possibility, although I haven't figured out how to get this to work either:
3) The dials may give us the plaintext after some sort of manipulation I'm still not clear on. Arguing against this is that I don't have any idea how to get to that point. Arguing for this is the fact that we know every character appears in the dials, meaning that every character can be obtained through them. Then again, maybe that's just an argument for why the dials should be the cypher keys (since keys for many cyphers need to include every character in some way).
Going to try to play around some more, maybe see if I can manipulate the dial images manually on my computer. Anyone have any thoughts?
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