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ALRIGHT:
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT A CRYPTANALYSIS IS, DON'T EVEN READ ANY FURTHER.
If you don't know what differential cryptanalysis, or frequency analysis are, I don't think you should read further either.
If you dont' know what the Enigma machine is, you'll have a difficult time too. Bye. We don't need people coming in here with their decoder rings, and their "ELIMINATE ALL OF DA LETTER Q" garbage. You're slowing us down. Elite? It's only intelligence. Furthermore, people who post in here with absolutely no idea of what they are getting themselves into, or post in here trying to "decrypt" 247's corrupted post, will find themselves ignored and no longer able to post in my threads. Sorry.

We've gotten complaints from the serious cryptographers that n00bs are coming in here doing the same things to my thread which I created this thread to avoid. The previous rant addresses this. Original message follows:
I've seen other threads in which people are like "HAY I FOUND THE WORD "YULE!!!!" I'M DECRYPTIG IT!!!11!!" I want this thread to be a serious effort to decode this made by programmers and hackers, and people actually versed in this sort of thing.
Here's the message so you don't have to check:

[code:1]Q4EI3gAAph1Fwhjw7AK9P4TMGdyeXa1CopgCo19PqG4qhgXKN1O1DQXUX92mCLln290Ww5Za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 [/code:1]

To remove the line breaks would stretch the page, even with a font size of 1. So, You're gonna have to do that on your own.

Here is a site that I found.

I'm not sure exactly which encryption method they used, but since the Admins wouldn't want to create a message that would be literally unbreakable, I'm sure they used a simple encryption method and left some clues for us to find.

For example, I bet the password used to encrypt the message is 247's password, which is ACTUALLY 10 digits. If I had the time I would check all of 247's entries for 8-letter words or phrases.

Remember that most encryption passwords are case-sensitive.

If I didn't have a paper due tomorrow I would write a brute force program to check all decripted messages for the words "santa", "elf", or "claus."


EDIT:
The following things I have determined from reading this thread, a bit. Here, so you don't have to repeat the mistakes others have made:
Fequency analysis reveals that all the characters have nearly the same distribution, from 20-35. Therefore it's not simple subsitution.
the characters available in the encoded message exaclty match those of the Base64 encoder, however, attempts to use this to decode have been unsuccessful. has anyone tried a substitution on a Base64-decoded message?
This is pretty much a cypher-only attack we can do, except for the fact that we can almost be sure that the decoded message will contain the words "elf," "claus," "santa," and maybe "yeti."

Here are some guidelines for decryption:
1. Remove line breaks when decrypting.
2. Possible encryption method is using Blowfish.
3. Possible password for encryption is ayiraganap.
3.a. ayiraganap backwards is Panagariya backwards, known creator of Applegeeks comics.
3.b. Encrypted text may possibly be backwards as well.
3.c. Encryption code is not case sensitive, so Panagariya or panagariya will work the same.
4. Wrapped at 72 lines mean, the encrypted text breaks every 72 characters (letters/numbers)

It's 64, 40, or 36 bit encryption.

For 64 bit encryption, It look's at every block Of characters that add up to 64 bits, and converts them based on the key. For 40 bit encryption, it's the same, except it's every block of 40 bits that get decrypted. Symbols represent a spacing, and are not decrypted, but just put in as spaces.
Numbers are equal to 4 bits
Letters are equal to 8 bits.


I am certain this has some revelance

f7134d83c19d7ec573cce03ee3c6d2a9
83154bb0448016887113e29d760717a8
83a9c28ca691b82cb738a56aa36e8271
36fdd05529b3434a59744c86213e4233
e36a4da2c4f155a1ace031dd8abd8757
7dd8ea36bac27b7c6ec755c568cbca5b
f3dc3d2bcc3b78750290392dba6de37d
dd44ef3dd8acc9f99e29a08b3a92e920
43a7e10564982e1da409e28f42dafc15
f5b955bbb39adc52d49cea14425e502b
09e2d7b72cc7f234b20b4482a1f71136
ca9b4d0ecd155caad0ea0aad6cc75e91
09b9eb88fafa436dc4911331a08104ac
855c607357220b52b5169be1134ebb62
08e7d66ec0466c082f84dee917050734
6b28f3e924ab15e3f40d3eabffab27cd
cbca238bf8e01cb2cbb439b51839c624
4eb9bd6ebdd6c394f1f1f334ae8a918f
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

Hope this all helps!

Yeah. That means that either the password or the decryption method is the wrong one. rolleyes

Well you see, I deal with encryption types like those all the time, so when I saw the code's structure I knew almost for sure what it was. And that above chain of numbers some person removed the capitalized letters and had something else do domething... sweatdrop

247's password has eight characters, not seven.

I tried 36, 40, and 64 but everytime it eventually broke =/