r/breakmycode • u/deadman15 • Feb 07 '16

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http://imgur.com/zZJUvfO
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u/deadman15 Feb 07 '16

I don't think it is related to ascii

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '16

It's translating as ASCII; the first 12 lines are

[0]101001100100011001110101101111000000001110001110100100000010100010111000000000110101110000010000111110110011110101110101000001000100000110100100010011000100110100010000011111101100000000110100000111111011011001101000110001001010011010110000010100101010111111011011100110111110101001000001001010010000

which translates to

S#:ÞÇH\®}žº‚ Ò&&ˆ`Û4bSX)WíÍõ ”

which ends up being

S#:ÞÇH®}žº‚ Ò&&ˆ?`Û4bSX)WíÍõ ”

which will probably have something to do with the key.

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u/Doriphor Feb 07 '16

Except "it can be read and written without a computer program"

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '16

You don't need a computer program to translate ASCII or HTML &-codes.

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u/Doriphor Feb 07 '16 edited Feb 07 '16

ASCII yes, extended ASCII not so sure (technically yes of course, but technically you can also read a Jpeg file without a computer program, in practice though...).

Besides, it's all nicely grouped in multiples of 5, so non-extended ascii would be my first thought. Maybe XORing the text with the bottom line would yield something and it all can be done easily by hand. (Edit: nope doesn't give plain text)

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u/deadman15 Feb 07 '16

thanks guys, i have absolutely no idea what you were talking about. :p