Puzzle #4 - Color Code, page 20

reply to post by AboveTopSecret.com

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can anyone explain what they actually updated?

reply to post by fLANKED

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files.abovetopsecret.com...

they gave us all the letters to now decrypt

some people are trying to decrypt while others are trying to figure out how they made the encryption.

reply to post by fLANKED

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They added the letters. (And made the image wider, so the letters would fit). Before, it was just annoying purple color bars.


More info (perhaps?) on the 'first solution':

1: skegrjaih fwblox opgfeh arfsajc hdjarwyyh hwxjz
2: SKEGRJAIH FWBLOX OPGFEH ARFSAJC HDJARWYYH HWXJZ
3: SKEGRJAIH FWBLOX OPGFEH ARFSAJC KGLDWMRRK KMABS
4: SKEGRJAIH FXBLOX OPGFEH ARFSAJC KGLDXMRRK KMABS

1 = the solution just posted
2 = the solution, in uppercase letters
3 = sum of green values of rows 57+67 in the original image
4 = green values of row 19 in the original image, offset by 3 letters

The fourth one there is from my notes from yesterday

reply to post by Deaf Alien

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Yeah. One technique on top of another. Like, first figuring out how to decode letters+words from the colors in a picture (one 'cipher'), then solving those as a cryptogram or anagram or something (the next 'layer' of cipher).

Speaking of which, I'm having no luck trying to solve this as a cryptogram. Haven't tried it in reverse yet, though. I take it, from the relative silence, that everyone else is in the same boat (or sanely asleep)?

reply to post by Deaf Alien

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the double cipher was

1-color code

2-encrypted letters we now have to decipher for a question to get the thread id and answer

yea what ian said

ahhahaahha

[edit on 11-8-2008 by ragster]

reply to post by Kryties

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I think the last two words were encoded differently. I got the same kind of results when I made a spreadsheet table of the differences between the posted translation and the color values of each row.

As an aside, to get stuff to line up correctly, use the 'code' tag. For example,

[code]First Second Third Fourth
A B C D
Red Orange Yellow Green
1 2 3 4
Alpha Beta Gamma Delta[/code]

Gives:

First Second Third Fourth
A B C D
Red Orange Yellow Green
1 2 3 4
Alpha Beta Gamma Delta

Otherwise double-spaces and stuff to make things line up are deleted.

reply to post by Ian McLean

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Ahhh, I learn something new every day /code gotya.....

I thought the same thing about the last two words. As an aside, I got to thinking about the last puzzle you solved that was similar to this. I believe the answer was 'abovetopsecret'. Could this be a key code to decrypt this puzzle? Curiously I ran the new code through a Vigenere decrypter using 'abovetopsecret' as the keycode.
Then I took the results of that and ran it through Decrypto and amongst the top results the words 'comet' and 'erruptive' kept popping up. I would post the top results but I smartly managed to clear the screen instead of clicking 'copy' and I cannot seem to replicate the result again.


[edit on 11/8/2008 by Kryties]

reply to post by Kryties

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Well I think Vigenere then cryptogram just introduces new letter patterns, not necessarily revealing new information. There's not much commonality in letter pattern, with either 'comet' or 'erruptive'. Amusingly, there's six other words in my dictionary that match the letter pattern in 'erruptive'; one of which is the misspelling 'illumanti' from the ATS thread-tag wordset.

I've tried Vigenere cipher, alone, on the posted letters, with a key length of up to five letters, with no results; also tried all monotonic Caesar ciphers (letter[x]=offset+multiple*letter[x]), for offsets 0-25 and multiples 0-25: no joy.

I think the overall encryption: "color decode + vignere + cryptogram + riddle" would be too complex, even for this game; it's probably "color decode + X + riddle", where X is a cryptogram or possibly a simple Caesar shift + anagram.

Ok, I'm tired now - enough solving for me for tonight ; good luck to all!

reply to post by Ian McLean

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I know you are right, I guess 3 consecutive days of staring at the bloody thing has sent me loopy, nuts, a few fries short of a happy meal........

I think I tried the Vigenere cipher out of sheer desperation. They have given us 2 clues now and I am picturing the looks of incredulity on their faces as we flail about like a fish out of water. I feel dumber for having not gotten this yet.

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