[Spooks] Re: Numbers?

[scott]

If you apply the decoding technique used on messages 1 and 3 to message 
2,2 (and possibly 2,1) you will see a message appear. Kind of a boring 
one though. Actually message 2,1 says something about BOOMER/s (I just 
did it). Try the key. The second broadcast was a pretty uneventful one.

Nomadiq

Derek Glidden wrote:

>On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 19:17, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>
>>Two messages have been decoded so far, using a simple substitution cipher.
>>See http://www.spynumbers.com/WBNY.html for details.
>>
>
>FWIW - messages Bunny(2,1) and Bunny(2,2) just seem to be gibberish or
>garbage.  If you look at the ciphertext of the two messages from his
>second transmission (1=A, 2=B, etc) you can group them into a short set
>of repeating "phrases" like this:
>
>Bunny(2,1): 
>
>knnahqriwrlqg
>knnihqrlvrlq
>knnihqrlvrlqg
>knnihqrlvrlqg
>knnihqrlxrlqg
>
>Bunny(2,2):
>
>ehbbgiqrinbeo
>rcdehbbraqranbdm
>rcdehbbnaqranbdm
>rcdehbbnaqranbdm
>rcdehbbnaqranbdm
>rbd
>
>There's not enough distinct ciphertext to really make anything more than
>a WAG as to what the messages might be (many "real" english words fit
>those letter patterns but none of them have made any sense to me yet),
>using his first key against these messages results in nonsense, and the
>fact that they're extremely similar, but slightly different makes me
>suspect he either did a very poor job of enciphering his message to
>begin with (in which case there's no easy way to figure out what he
>really meant) or was just reading out a short bunch of random numbers
>over to make the message appear longer.
>



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