Secret message for you to help me decode?

I asked if it was 'Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!' and he said no.

He also wrote a long string of binary that says 'oh yeah.' This all on a postcard, mind.

I asked if it was 'Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!' and he said no.

I luv u Abbott but can't be of much help in the decoding mission. Sorry.

gothic ?

He just gave me a hint: "It has three levels of encryption"

that's kinda hard

Fuckssake I just wrote "Gloryosky" and a frowny face.

Haven't sent it off yet, though.

Time to step it up.

Dude haha there is no point in shooting yourself in the ass here. If yr gonna do that, tho, get an RC Cola to soothe yourself after.

Number ranges would make me think ASCII, but it's not clear beyond that.

ASCII is like "./" SOH....

So I don't think it's that.

Yeah, my next thought was uuencoded base-64 (ASCII) content using hex instead of decimal ASCII, but that's not so great either.

(NB: base-64 is inside ASCII, not equal, before someone beats me up about it.)

I'm going to ask my ex, he's a scary numbers wiz.

I think that the 1s are separators, not data.

bible verses?

scroll down: http://bijective.dogma.net/compres6.htm

i don't think i want to fuck with triple encrypted secret message though, it could change all matter into antimatter when decoded

...or snow crash

I think I need the help of a Tombot.

ok I know this

you've got a grid
a b c d e
f g h i j
k l m n o
p q r s t
u v w x y
z

numbers are row and column markers? If there are other levels of encryption he might have made them backwards or something. Can't be arsed but it seems most likely

rot13 likely in there at all?

That 6 in there makes me think it's a Z so 4 probably = 1? Thought I couldn't be arsed but looks like I'm in it now

Whole thing is backwards, grid coordinates are also backwards but switch to forwards with every '1' seperator? Too tired to actually work that one out

DAMN IT ABBOTT

Maybe it's a rolling-XOR encryption?

34 = 0x22
33 = 0x21

0x22 ^ 0x21 = 0x01

then 0x01 ^ 0x01 = 0x00

then 0x00 ^ 0x22 = 0x22

:(

I tried

(34 33 1 34 46 1 34 34 1 34 35 1 35 41 1 32 31)

 e  y    e  s    e  e    e  g    g  n    o  g

Ex replied with: "About the only thing that looked vaguely right was SNOOPOQ!, but that's still very nonsensical. :\"

Well THATS helpful.

'I MG OIN GT OBLO W UPT HEA RK,R E NE!'

does that work?

maybe!

Yeah that sounds plausible, howd you come to that one?

you really want to know?

Hmmm....he says it's not 'ark rene' one or 'eggnog'

Get a friend who speaks English, problem solved, I win, lock thread.

3 levels of encryption? no ilxor has time for that sort of fuddy duddy.

more clues might help, do the lemon party and oh yeah messages have anything to do with this. Is it an rsvp reply? or request?

the secret might be the number 3 and there isn't 3 levels of encryption.
or it could all be b.s.

I also thought of it in xyz coordinates but that doesn't help.

RSVP reply.

Thank gosh.

And what was the encryption scheme?

Dude won't say.

Yeah, OK. I have an encryption scheme. And here's my secret message:

XXFU CKXX YOXX UMOR XXON

¿¿¿¿can u decript it????

Also, I have a special little dance that has a special meaning that only those with a key can uncypher.

Prob is that the only message I've sent so far is, "I have to pee".

Dude needs a serious lesson in how not to be nerdy princess.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

oh man so OTM.

This dude.

JW always reminds me of him.

Glad I wasn't the one to have to say that.

zing?

Abbott never zings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_analysis_(cryptanalysis)

get going

Actually I already did frequency analysis yesterday and it said that the message was CAN YOU HELP ME SEX A GIRL PLS, but I figured that the software prob had a bug.

ONE TIME PAD

34 33 | 34 46 | 34 34 | 34 35 | 35 41 | 32 31

I  LL   HA VE   TH EC   HI CK   EN TH   AN KS

oh my fucking god I bet that's it

NO!

Wait your were probably w/the joeks there, scoundrel.

Umm yeah, I should admit that the key I used there was:

1. It's an RSVP
2. You're getting married
3. Nerds dig poultry

BAHAHAHA

it says CODEZ

One moral of this thread, which is known to many, is: I'm terribly gullible.

Here is my coded response (seriously):

|..|.|...|||...||
|...|||..|....|||
|...|||.|..|
|...||.|..|||....|.|..||......|||..|.||....|..||...||

Man, I wasn't in Cub Scouts. Do you think they taught us something that practical (however obsolete) in Girl Scouts? No, I got to learn how to make macrame plantholders.

4 people are coming?

Uh-oh.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u62/johnalso/four_horsemen_apocalypse.jpg

Abbott, are the numbers seven, eight or 16 involved in your wedding?

...no?

It's not Morse code, Abbott, it's postal barcode!

|,,,||,|,,|||,,,,|,|,,||,,,,,,|||,,|,||,,,,|,,||,,,||

Just to let everyone know, I already tried to make sense of it by turning it UPSIDE-DOWN,
so don't waste your time. It turns out it's just as inscrutable when viewed UPSIDE-DOWN,
so don't waste your time.

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x161/robertwolf8080/xkcd7.png

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Most genius fake xkcd comic ever.

Yeah you need to post it to that thread for posterity.

Bump, did you find out?

taking the 1s as punctuation and the rest as ascii in hex (ie 30 = '0') you get
43 4F 44 45 5A 21

which, using base 16 ascii again (41 = 'A') is

C O D E Z !

do i win?

> it says CODEZ

ah, you said already.

Show us in pictures!