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reply posted on 27-12-2005 @ 11:39 PM by ufia
Thanks for all the great links, you guys.

Xperta is a handy little program to convert polytones into plain text.
anas.worldonline.es...

You can try with a very clear XPH recording downloadable from home.planet.nl...



We are still left with a bunch of unbreakable numbers, though. If by any chance you come across a spy, maybe you could steal his OTP table from his pocket and run away with it, before he put it in his mouth to turn it into chewing gum.


reply posted on 9-1-2006 @ 04:53 AM by LordGoofus
After checking out the Xperta program and analysing the sound file provided in the users post, I did a quick google search for anything to do with arranging digits in groups of five. One of the search results was an article about the VIC Cipher (Here). It was created by the soviets, but later 'de-coded' by the US when a soviet defected in the 1940's....

Most numbers messages are supposedly KGB or CIA...coincidence? or not? Anyone here feel upto the challenge of seeing if they can decode a message using the VIC cipher? I'm not sure if it's even possible to decrypt considering the number of steps required to encrypt it, but it might be worth a shot.

I noticed in the article it mentioned in order to adapt the cipher to the english language, you have to a space/null now and then. I'm not cryptologist so I don't know how that works...but it is interesting in the numbers message I tried to decrpyt, it came up with the following:

HEADER
343 343 343 1 343 343 343 1 343 343 343 1 343 343 343 1
343 343 343 1 343 343 343 1 343 343 343 1 343 343 343 1
343 343 343 1

MESSAGE
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _________01437 00095 27777 39755 37370
00937 28393 55069 01410 93757 41417 72478 99956 65237 23597
79272 70799 31987 39383 03288 32959 42466 88375 10278 62524
05963 30513 96721 36094 86748 16957 99231 91641 89864 37132
03772 61827 01506 68637 81623 50063 14681 30535 07714 58223
14627 13364 72297 43475 63020 21898 36232 82418 81211 59939
28612 42224 04948 07579 21895 45840 58678 30807 80592 52769
16210 27084 35603 14149 48029 03249 72268 44338 52630 98513
64462 02183 46315 40836 22696 76273 11030 56070 67471 71672
51818 06607 38442 24582 45497 97593 31978 41790 01271 91253
24127 25142<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<2

Is it possible the "1" in the header is a marker telling whoever this message was aimed at where to insert a null (00000?), or which number grouping to ignore?. It also said something in the article about all messages end up around 150 characters long. I read the article fairly quickly so apologies if I'm wrong.

In the 'decrypted' message....

Each group of 5 digits represents a series of characters. Each "1" in the head resembles a null (ie: 00000). There are 19 groups of 5digits in the message. There are 9 1's in the header.

So, 19 x 5 characters = 95 characters
9 x nulls ( 9 x 5 groups of zeroes) = 45 characters

That makes 140 characters in total. Close, but no cigar. Maybe I'm on the right track, or maybe not. Either way, maybe it will help get you guys thinking

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