UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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RedWizzard

RedWizzard
LordZoltan said:
Trying to solve this other cipher using the tools in the 'Black Chamber' from Simon Singh:http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/substitutioncrackingtool.html

Paste the ciphertext into the bottom box and then start putting in your substitutions on the left to see the plaintext fill out in the top box.

For completeness - the ciphertext is:

LFGXVGV POH QTZGN JTILRWGX VHKXI DBCF HKITROL ZH HIRXXTTB TA

The 'vowel trowel' tool on there suggests that the five most likely vowels are T, X, R, G, I with freqs of 9, 7, 6, 6, 6 respectively. Which causes some issues with the word 'HIRXXTTB' as has been mentioned already.

However, frequency analysis of letters in such a short phrase will always be fraught with error.

The clearest candidate for a vowel is obviously T, with 9 occurrences, but with the possibility that at least one of the words might be a system name (and therefore potentially an obscure word), it could equally be anything!

All this supposes it is a straight substitution cipher where a ciphertext letter is always equals to the same key letter or:

C[sub]L[/sub]=K[sub]L'[/sub] for all L where A<=L<=Z

Which, if it's a keyed cipher, such as keyed Vigenère, would not be the case.

Following on from earlier posts, and above - that 'HIRXXTTB' limits things for a substitution cipher greatly - if it's a word. 'XXTT' = 'OONN', 'OOLL' are most likely, perhaps.

But, again - if it's a system name - then it could be anything.

Anyway, that's me for the moment.
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Another possible wrinkle is that the Morse may be reversed, either completely or line by line.
 

ilo

ilo
Niamhy said:
no, one of the other clues lead to Ngalia. We have no idea what Alpha says. if we know what order it comes in the chain it may help (ie which clue points to Alpha?) I found alpha just by a carefully educated guess, not by a clue.
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the document in canonn explains the sequence with the riddle's solutions.
 
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CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
ilo said:
Then it will be multiple, right? for people playing in Solo, and private groups and different instances.. is that what you mean?
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There are two known bounty hunters mentioned in the game currently as far as I'm aware. Tod the Blaster McQuinn and Ziva Eschel from the novel Eite Dangerous: Wanted.

Tod - http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Tod_"The_Blaster"_Mcquinn

Ziva in Galnet - https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/55c8a7a89657babd107d9faa

Worth noting with regard to Ziva Eschel perhaps are Drew's comments that Salome isn't the only special NPC out there.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...e-Rift-(Part-3)/page199?p=4344390#post4344390
 

CMDR Ofan

CMDR Ofan
LordZoltan said:
Vigenère cipher is one. It's a keyed rotation cipher where the digit value of a key letter (A-Z, or 1-26) represents the rotation 'amount' to use for a plaintext letter.

Eg a key 'ABC' would be ROT1, ROT2, ROT3 for three successive letters, so the plaintext 'AAA' would be 'BCD' after encryption.

When you reach the end of the key, but you have more plaintext to encrypt, you simply loop back to the start of the key.

Needs a key, though. If that's the case, then I'd suggest the other clues contain the key.
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I don't know a lot about that stuff, time to do some reading, question; what order of the greek alphabet did the clues come in, i.e. delta, gamma, alpha etc. Could that function as a key? I don't understand how they work yet tbh
 

RedWizzard

RedWizzard
Allant Doran said:
Wow, things picked up during the one night I couldn't play it seems haha.

Going to try and finish getting Palin to tier 5 today and then position myself ready for the hunt tomorrow. Are we doing this in open or in a specific player group?
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Don't worry the main event is yet to come. The clues so far are pointing us to where and what time to wait for the target on the 28th. But one of the clues is unsolved.
 

Niamhy

Niamhy
omg haha :D

Things we’ve tried so far:
Morse assuming -.. and -.-. (above)
Morse assuming - .. and - .-.
LFGXVGV POH QTZGN JTILRPGX VHKXI DBCF HKITROL ZH HIRXXTTB TA
Morse to Binary, Flipping, Back to Text
Morse to Decimal, Flipping, Back to Text
Morse to Hexadecimal, Flipping, Back to Text
Morse to Text, Atbash, Caesar
Morse to Text, Atbash
Flipping the Morse, gives me Umlaut letters so that’s probably not right
Attempted Enigma Cipher - no basis for rotors…
Morse - Text - ASCII - Octal - Text
Morse - Text - ASCII - Octal - Flip - Text
Morse to Text, Vigenère cipher
Shifting each character by one further back/forth from the last

and I can confirm 90% of those hehe
 

Jon flint

Jon flint
StevoDubbs said:
Anybody had any luck finding Kohl in CAIL?? Been here since 10 and no sign of yet
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No luck for me either. Jumping in and out of nav beacon and various signal sources. Got jumped by a wing of 3 vultures (npc), that was the only interesting thing so far.

Going to call it a day, will assume everything mentioned in the clues is a set up for tomorrow.
 
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StevoDubbs

StevoDubbs
Why would they post something today before 10am talking about a trader in the system CAIL....I did not see anything in the clues that said that was for the 28th....do we know we are not supposed to collect more information or something else before the hunt?
 

RedWizzard

RedWizzard
StevoDubbs said:
Why would they post something today before 10am talking about a trader in the system CAIL....I did not see anything in the clues that said that was for the 28th....do we know we are not supposed to collect more information or something else before the hunt?
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The first set of messages in the videos said that the hunt starts on the 28th. These clues are giving us times without dates, the implication is that the date is the one they've already given us.
 
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