nibot ([personal profile] nibot) wrote2009-04-25 05:24 pm
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time-capsule cryptogram

time capsule buried in LSU quad

TMWTDAAHOTTA 2076 FLSU 1976 IC00CBC ... PHBMDLJCCGESMPSLMSLUTSUUAGLDWRSR

[identity profile] xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com 2009-04-26 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Transcription touchup: the 0s are Os afaict (compare first word vs 2076, compared with IC??CBC), there are Vs later in the text, not Us, and there was an extra U in the last section.

TMWTDAAHOTTA 2076 FLSU 1976 IC00CBC ... PHBMDLJCCGESMPSLMSLUTSUUAGLDWRSR
TMWTDAAHOTTA 2076 FLSU 1976 ICOOCBC ... PHBMDLJCCGESMPSLMSLVTSVAGLDWRSR


Curious. Too bad i suck at cryptograms =)

[identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com 2009-04-27 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
My first guess (without doing any puzzling at all) is that it's a one-time-pad or substitution cipher with the key stored in the vault so that only in the future will the message be known. Why else would you obscure the message like this?

automatic crytogram solver

[identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com 2009-04-27 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
this is cool: http://www.blisstonia.com/software/WebDecrypto/index.php

It doesn't find anything for the time capsule text, however.

transcription errors, reminds me of...

[identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com 2009-04-27 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
http://nibot-lab.livejournal.com/72614.html

Transcription touchup

(Anonymous) 2010-08-15 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
Is there a space in that last word? Could it be
PHBMDLJCCGESMP SLMSLUTSUUAGLDWRSR