Posted on 03/29/2011 12:08:46 PM PDT by OL Hickory
The FBI is seeking the public's help in breaking the encrypted code found in two notes discovered on the body of a murdered man in 1999.
(Excerpt) Read more at networkworld.com ...
Or they send a hit squad to kill your family and make it look like a murder/suicide because you are obviously a threat to national security.
“Eat more Ovaltine”
The patterns “WLDNCBE” and “NCBE” repeat a lot in one message.
Also “SENPRSE”
I can only imagine the reaction of the lead detective who first saw these notes back in ‘99.
He uses a lot of parentheses. It could be that encloses the name of a person like a cartouche in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
I like the cartouche idea, but I guess a lot of these sequences are addresses. Lots of repeated letter groups with numbers.
“So in other words, the NSA told them to go pound sand.”
Maybe they just want to find out which non-government personnel can solve it.
Also interesting is the apparent association by use of an outline. For some reason, I get a keyboard association. Like he learned some type of key set and then would write based on that key set. An example would be using the phone keypad to type a message.
A = 21
B = 22
C = 23
D = 31
Only the absence of punctuation leads away from a straight substitution cypher.
Also interesting is the apparent association by use of an outline. For some reason, I get a keyboard association. Like he learned some type of key set and then would write based on that key set. An example would be using the phone keypad to type a message.
A = 21
B = 22
C = 23
D = 31
Only the absence of punctuation leads away from a straight substitution cypher.
Maybe the FBI could help us decrypt what the hell we are doing in Libya.
Cool, just wish they had provided some biographical information about the victim. These are obviously very personal notes.
I went looking for more info on this guy, seems a little interesting that if you are trying to solve a puzzle you might want as much info as possible and you know that the govt has much more than he died with 2 pieces of paper in his pocket. It took me a while, but here’s a little more:
From the St Louis Post Dispatch, early July 99
He was found in a cornfield off Hwy 367 west of West Alton by a woman around noon. He had “addresses” in St Louis, Belleville, and Fairview Heights. Seems a little interesting that this individual has 3 residences within 20 miles of each other. 2 or them are within 10 miles of each other on the IL side. That’s about all I found out.
The stuff could just be gibberish. Letter patterns gathered like a bower bird gathers odds and ends.
Still not enough. What was the man’s daily life, his hobbies, his job — if he had one?
They could just findsomeone who can decipher the tax code, except for the fact that no such person exists.
I was thinking along that line too, but I'm sure they've already used word frequency analysis on this thing. Either that or they need to fire their crypto analysts.
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