puzzling email | Factorio | Page 1

mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 7:40 PM

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magic spire Oct 5, 2021, 7:41 PM

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fubbo2

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 7:42 PM

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Got an idea of what it says?

magic spire Oct 5, 2021, 7:42 PM

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Got a transcript?

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 7:45 PM

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Interesting.. I got another one.

mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 7:46 PM

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Puzzling friends :)

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@green escarp @iron rune

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Not sure if pings show in threads...

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 7:47 PM

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Assuming it's an actual puzzle and not just randomly spammed letters.

mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 7:47 PM

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Well the letter distribution is basically english

magic spire Oct 5, 2021, 7:48 PM

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XOCFE RFYSSZ DHTTDKT SPATNGX CGKVG BRCGTIK CHIHLBH YDYJRR YJBRADD EJCSTYU LNUIBWJ RVNIPH QQSNSY AEIUY RGRASU SPVGR```

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 7:49 PM

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NZXNP OZGTA XKWEU FKJTYW YQUJBXN ETVWJK NXANJ
ZBJPXT GPVWSK XKVQF GSBKTBT CYPSRZ FJXXZSA RVDISYQ
QRWPBC BVZUD LOCLWAR ICAJII PVRRQY```

mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 7:50 PM

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I love how this is basically instant nerd snipe

magic spire Oct 5, 2021, 7:50 PM

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hehe

opal fox Oct 5, 2021, 7:50 PM

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ugh

tawny plinth Oct 5, 2021, 7:51 PM

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magic spire ```KVJBYKY HOJYCR BUHBPY XOCFE RFYSSZ DHTTDKT SPATNGX CGKVG BRCGTIK CHIHLBH YDY...

It looks like most of 2-3 starting letters of the words actually resemble something, e.g. chihlbh, children. brcgtik, british? also similiar word length

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Then we get to XOCFE

opal fox Oct 5, 2021, 7:51 PM

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I'd focus on the QQSNSY term

solid mantle Oct 5, 2021, 7:51 PM

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magic spire ```KVJBYKY HOJYCR BUHBPY XOCFE RFYSSZ DHTTDKT SPATNGX CGKVG BRCGTIK CHIHLBH YDY...

this transcription is wrong by 1 letter, actual transcription below

KVJBYKJ HOJYCR BUHBPY XOCFE RFYUSZ DHTTDKT SPATNGX CGKVG BRCGTIK CHILHLBH YDYJRR YJBRADD EJCSTYU LNUIBWJ RVNIPH QQSNSY AEIUY RGRSAU SPVGR

opal fox Oct 5, 2021, 7:51 PM

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there's not a lot of words with repeated starting letters in english

mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 7:52 PM

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You'd imagine that there would be shorter words

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Therefore, I don't believe this is direct substitution

opal fox Oct 5, 2021, 7:53 PM

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QQSNSY could be llamas

tawny plinth Oct 5, 2021, 7:53 PM

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Thats true

magic spire Oct 5, 2021, 7:53 PM

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There are plenty of encryptions that give constant groups, but these aren't constant either

solid mantle Oct 5, 2021, 7:53 PM

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cyberchef gives nothing, most likely not substitution

magic spire Oct 5, 2021, 7:53 PM

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Hi Jerzy

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It's not just Polish, is it?

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 7:54 PM

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obligatory: it could be a simple key cipher too

fiery agate Oct 5, 2021, 7:54 PM

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there are no żźąółę so no

iron rune Oct 5, 2021, 7:55 PM

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ooo puzzles

tawny plinth Oct 5, 2021, 7:55 PM

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Google translate is saying this is in English, so my eyes must not be working properly

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 7:55 PM

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lemme find the website for simple ciphers

iron rune Oct 5, 2021, 7:55 PM

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isn't this just spam? and constructed text to evade bayesian filter?

mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 7:56 PM

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Perhaps

iron rune Oct 5, 2021, 7:56 PM

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maybe frequency analysis will tell

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i'm at work and i don't have my tools :c

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 7:57 PM

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it does look like garbage tbh

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 7:57 PM

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~~so do storage sheds~~

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 7:57 PM

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https://www.boxentriq.com/code-breaking/beaufort-cipher

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this fails to find anything

tawny plinth Oct 5, 2021, 7:57 PM

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Maybe. But we, (begin heroic music) as the puzzlers of the Factorio Discord, have a moral obligation to attempt to decode this cipher!

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 7:57 PM

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freq analysis is also wrong too

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but its also a small sample

tawny plinth Oct 5, 2021, 7:58 PM

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I'll be going through all 26 possibilities for the caeser's cipher, wish me luck.

mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 7:58 PM

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Nothing there

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 7:59 PM

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theres no way the spaces are correct

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im going to declare this hunt "pointless" and do something else now :P

tawny plinth Oct 5, 2021, 8:03 PM

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You could also download that mysterious file attached to the first email.

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 8:03 PM

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I'm sure it's harmless.

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 8:03 PM

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how to cause a billion dollar incident, step 1

mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 8:04 PM

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And cat it, because you're obviously running Linux

thick merlin Oct 5, 2021, 8:04 PM

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sharp lance how to cause a billion dollar incident, step 1

Is this how Facebook went down last night

opal fox Oct 5, 2021, 8:05 PM

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well, if we assume the spaces are in the right place, then YJBRADD is also a big clue: 7 letter word with repeated letter at the end

tawny plinth Oct 5, 2021, 8:05 PM

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Out of curiosity, did you randomly recieve this email or is this from someone you know?

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 8:05 PM

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Completely random.

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And there's 2 of them.

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Both with Elon Musk attachments. xD

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 8:06 PM

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on a scale from 1 to 10 how much work do you have :P

thick merlin Oct 5, 2021, 8:06 PM

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What's the sender email address?

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 8:07 PM

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Peter Monzon <uyeyagat@gmail.com> Floriane Alberta <hgoxunoluq@gmail.com>

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 8:07 PM

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either those addresses are keys or its bs

thick merlin Oct 5, 2021, 8:08 PM

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Isn't it trivial to fake a sender email

mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 8:08 PM

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That's detectable

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 8:08 PM

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sharp lance on a scale from 1 to 10 how much work do you have :P

Lol. Quite a bit.

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 8:08 PM

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...I was expecting -4

thick merlin Oct 5, 2021, 8:08 PM

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mighty portal That's detectable

Using what?

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SSL?

sharp lance Oct 5, 2021, 8:09 PM

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the sending server would presumably spot it

iron rune Oct 5, 2021, 8:12 PM

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DMARC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMARC

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 8:14 PM

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mighty portal Oct 5, 2021, 8:14 PM

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How much obscure email protocols are there even

zealous ocean Oct 5, 2021, 8:15 PM

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But I mean, spam creating gmail accounts isn't exactly a difficult task either.

thick merlin Oct 6, 2021, 12:57 AM

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get a subpoena issued to google to determine the account owner

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pepe_feelskek

steel seal Oct 6, 2021, 10:35 PM

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very puzzling, i dont understand a thing here

green escarp Oct 7, 2021, 8:09 PM

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friend got a similar email

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it seems like just spam sadly

mighty portal Oct 7, 2021, 8:17 PM

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no fun cryptology puzzles :(

steel seal Oct 7, 2021, 10:37 PM

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mighty portal no fun cryptology puzzles \:(

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magic spire Oct 7, 2021, 10:40 PM

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Or the Indus River valley!

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Or ~~a dank river valley near you~~

#puzzling email