Thargoid message?

[Feros-da-Grundig]

I know absolutely sod all about this Vigenère cipher and it's could be possible that "CTAATDMmdK" is not some unique keyphrase that's needed and some other keyphrase value is cryptographically equivalent?

I don't think so, although the compliment could be used (e.g. instead of adding "C" you subtract "X". So XGZZG... eh doesn't look like much to me either).

I am too lazy to verify this though, so feel free to google it.

 

[ethzero]

Ok, cracked it for reals this time:

Just took a look at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigenère_cipher page and realised if I change the raw message *back* to being zero-indexed then I can shift the key up one character to "Dubbuennel" (!!)

SOLONGEDANDTHANKSFORALLTHEBISCUITS

http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/vigenere.php

 

[Feros-da-Grundig]

Just took a look at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigenère_cipher page and realised if I change the raw message *back* to being zero-indexed then I can shift the key up one character to "Dubbuennel" (!!)

i bit the bullet and listened to the podcast. only "clues" were this "broadcast" came from permit locked system HIP 22460, and someone around 5:16 mentioned a system by name I had trouble understanding ("Dubbuennel" maybe?). mostly was yamiks making jokes and stuff

sigh

 

[Prince Tharik Otoli]

Ok, cracked it for reals this time:

Just took a look at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigenère_cipher page and realised if I change the raw message *back* to being zero-indexed then I can shift the key up one character to "Dubbuennel" (!!)

SOLONGEDANDTHANKSFORALLTHEBISCUITS

http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/vigenere.php

Oh geeez... so it was zero-indexed all along. Again, good work.

 

[ethzero]

And equally I remembered that Ed Lewis has his Faction based in a system somewhere, did an EDDB.io search, skipped right past sodding 'Dubbuennel' because I spotted that 'Garibaldi' was a biscuit-named planet :/

 

[LCU No Fool Like One]

On the Gnosis audio biscuits are mentioned in relation to Ed several times.

Guessing the content of a message is one of the ways in which codes can be broken. During the war the allies cracked navy codes because they realised there were part of the message that were always the same like date and time.

In fact of you look up the thread here several people nearly guessed the whole message. Had they put the message in a decryptor it would have given the key.

 

[Prince Tharik Otoli]

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In fact of you look up the thread here several people nearly guessed the whole message. Had they put the message in a decryptor it would have given the key.

Uh huh. Yah I sure did. No offense, I guess I just thought it wouldn’t be so cliche. In any case, I enjoyed the opportunity to flex my intellect in front of my clan lol. Thank you for spending the time to make this puzzle.

 

[BDelacroix]

Well the biscuit thing is from another in-crowd thing entirely, Douglas Adams series of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Brilliant and great fun, I recommend it.

ethzero:
Wasn't it "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish?" or was the biscuit thing from one of the follow-on books?

It was fish, but Ed likes cookies I guess not being a dolphin.