Hello. I have a cipher that needs to be solved. I have been sat

>>8687648
The pastebin link with all of the numbers can be found here http://pastebin.com/rFFYHa71

>>8687648

What have you tried so far?

>>8687655
Getting the sum of each row/column, linking the numbers to letters in the alphabet A=0, Z=26 (but that doesn't work since the numbers are 0-9).
Latin Square (that doesn't work since numbers appear more than once).
I've really been working on the other ones more. I still have no idea what the final character is for.

>>8687655
If you think it would be beneficial and other people are going to work on this we could talk outside this board

>>8687648
what does the plaque on the lower left hand side say?

Is this a piece of art? are you sure it is something meaningful?

>>8687696
Yes I am sure. A series of 5 paintings was released in the town I live in, each lead to a location where "treasure" is hidden. The plaque however is insignificant to the problem itself.

File: freqanalysis.png (11KB, 206x267px) Image search: [Google]

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Analysis of the frequency of each number 1-9.

>>8687648
Is this at a museum or gallery?

>>8687712
The numbers 6 and 9 seem to play a big role, which is worthy of note since the final character is a mirrored "9"
>>8687715
This is at an art gallery

>>8687717
Cool. Which gallery? Do you know who the artist is?

>>8687727
The person behind it all is "Luke Jerram" I'm sure you could find out all about it from that

>>8687729
Thanks. Good luck with the solution

>>8687648
any updates?

>>8687648
I figured it out

>>8688979
Nice!
How did you do it?

There is no right answer to a sample of crypto this short given that there's absolutely no context.

Just start with a plain text of your choice, possibly of even a different length, and work backwards, and you're guaranteed to find a key in some crypto system that matches your results.

Worst case, just claim it's a 1 time pad.

This also raises issues when people "brute-force" hard drive crypto for example. The odds of an alternate short key deciphering a whole partition to an alternate, yet fully functional hard drive partition, are small yet not zero.

>>8688979
How?

>>8688979
Sent you a PM :)
(posted 2 years ago)

>>8689004
>>8689673

The method is too long to fit into 2000 characters.

>>8687648
What would the solution look like? Coordinates? Plain text?

>>8689711
I don't know, all I know is that it was made by a mahts proffessor and leads to a location
>>8689677
wat

>>8689711

I remember some code relying on:
* 26 chars plus
* 10 digits
= 36 glyphs in some "alphabeth matrix" with 6*6 width and height. encoding started at upper left of the matrix, and one wrote two digits per character, e.g. "2 4" meant "for next char move 2 right and 4 down". with 6 rows and 6 columns in the matrix, 5 meant "one left" or "one up", and "digit greater six" were the same as "digit modulo six", making 7 having the same meaning as 1, 8=2 aso.
matrices often started a-z followed by 0-9.

the website of the mathematician that developed the cypher
http://www.danfretwell.com/

if you can crack it, and are within 1000 pounds worth of travel from Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, then you should probably keep the answer to your self.

it is reportably a months worth of work for a skilled cryptographer to find all 5

>>8687648
Hmmm let's see... it reads

>haha hey guys, let's post this, some poor fucker will get obsessed and waste all their time on it :D

>>8691254
No they probably want to see if you still have the aptitude to work for them. But you obviously don't care about working for them any longer.