What could this mean??? (Road Ahead 10-5-18)
Anyone speak Star Wars??? ;)
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/184033/the-road-ahead#latest
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/184033/the-road-ahead#latest
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"EclecticsScott;c-1662523" wrote:
I was gonna chime back in to the thread I was in earlier but Kyno shut it down. While I do enjoy the long Road Ahead reads, this puzzle is quite glorious and meets all my expectations for today, even if it dropped at 11pm(eastern). Well done, @CG_SBCrumb- Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done. "APX_919;c-1662526" wrote:
"KausDebonair;c-1662522" wrote:
"APX_919;c-1662519" wrote:
Assuming for a moment I am correct about it being a Polybius cipher, there now exists a distinct possibility our friend CG_Crumb took it a step farther and over encrypted it.
Why? Because the name for the most popular overencryption of a Polybius cipher is a Nihilist cipher. Nihilus=Nihilist? It's a maybe to be sure but given that this is more of a stumper than most clues, this level of complexity would make sense.
Can you double-cipher something without it turning into mush? Like put it in one cipher, then that code into another?
Oh yes. Makes it very hard to translate without the key. If you have the key, you're golden. A standard google search came up with some tools that may help folks ti understand the cipher system but not necessarily translate this message.
Crap. Based on the little research I did (just now) the bottom looks like a Caesar key. But then that leaves the top as nonsense.- I thought it was hex too, but weird that it’s lacking C’s
Maybe related to this
https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/16756/the-pyramid-code - There is speculation that the bottom is a jedi holocron.
"APX_919;c-1662519" wrote:
Assuming for a moment I am correct about it being a Polybius cipher, there now exists a distinct possibility our friend CG_Crumb took it a step farther and over encrypted it.
Why? Because the name for the most popular overencryption of a Polybius cipher is a Nihilist cipher. Nihilus=Nihilist? It's a maybe to be sure but given that this is more of a stumper than most clues, this level of complexity would make sense.
Or- Tsuo_Vook believes it could be a Playfair cipher instead which may be easier to decrypt than a Nihilist keyed Polybius cipher.
There is a chance, albeit a slim one, that both ciphers were used. That however would be very, very difficult to decipher without a lot of time and skills which belies the point of this puzzle being meant to be solved by anyone with the right idea. "Tsuo_Vook;c-1662531" wrote:
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
You got it, I think.
Solved using this webpage: https://www.dcode.fr/playfair-cipher
Message: THEROADAHEADISCOMINGSOXONTHEWAITWILXLBEWORTHITBITLYNAVERIDEI
(The Road Ahead is coming so/on. The wait wil/l be worth it. bit.ly/naveridei)
http://bit.ly/naveridei gives this image:
https://media.makeameme.org/created/friday-so-close-iao49b.jpg"Tsuo_Vook;c-1662531" wrote:
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
It has to be this. I used a decoder tool online and the first section reads “the road ahead is a” and then turns to gibberish."newershadow;c-1662538" wrote:
"Tsuo_Vook;c-1662531" wrote:
Thank you guys for the catch on 7's vs. D's. Was just copying what had previously been posted.
I've got the cypher figured out. (It's the Playfair cypher if you want to try it out yourself.) I'm getting a number of errors in my cypher so far, but this should explain it. I'm also getting enough plaintext that I'm 100% sure this is what was done.
You got it, I think.
Solved using this webpage: https://www.dcode.fr/playfair-cipher
Message: THEROADAHEADISCOMINGSOXONTHEWAITWILXLBEWORTHITBITLYNAVERIDEI
(The Road Ahead is coming so/on. The wait wil/l be worth it. bit.ly/naveridei)
http://bit.ly/naveridei gives this image:
https://media.makeameme.org/created/friday-so-close-iao49b.jpg
Well that’s kind of a downer lol
