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Any Crypto-UFies out there? by VivianC2011-08-29 13:51:34
  Interesting periodicity: by pas512011-08-29 14:53:44
    Hmm...so what is the code supposed to represent? by jdelphiki 2011-08-29 17:17:48
Is it supposed to end up as a sentence or clever word, is it a numerical sequence, or what?

I mean, if it's supposed to ultimately a sentence, phrase, or word, then the code will ultimately need to represent letters of the alphabet. That doesn't automatically mean the sequence will divide evenly into segments that each represent one letter, but it's not, perhaps, a bad place to start.

A little lazy fun with my calculator shows me that the only reasonably-sized numbers that are evenly-divisible into the full segment length of 944 are:

944 / 16 = 59 "characters"
944 / 8 = 118 "characters"
944 / 4 = 236 "characters"
944 / 2 = 472 "characters"

...below is how the original sample (from the TLP) would break out using, for example, a character segment of 8.

bbbacdca aaaacbaa
aacbbbba cdcbbbbb
caaaabcb bbbacdcb
bbbbcbaa aacbbbbb
cdc

...with 3 left over because the sample wasn't complete.

Segments of 8...or maybe 4...could give you a starting point for figuring out what the letters are supposed to mean.

Another thought that just hit me, looking at pas51's breakout...could it be an equation pattern of some kind?

I dunno...not enough to go on, except for guessing.

Good luck!


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