The FBI Needs You to Solve this Code

[Danpascooch]

I'm pretty sure we've got someone here who can solve this, especially after that Puzzle adventure thing.
This story reminds me of the sculpture that resides at the CIA headquarters called Kryptos that holds similar lines of text. The artist, Jim Sanborn, assumed that the code would be broken within a year or two of the sculpture installation in 1990 but he's still dropping hints 20 years later so that the message is solved before he dies.
No one has solved it because they don't let people near the dam thing anymore.

Surely the text on it can be found online.....right?

 

[Buizel91]

the 12 secret herbs and spices for kfc ? lol

^ i'm going with this... xD

OT: This topic has turned into what i call a "Comedy Thread" everywhere i look something make me laugh XD

Anyway I'm stumped, However...

I broke this and have a fairly complete translation, it is not code which is why they cannot break it.

The guy used his own abbreviations and works in an industry that most do not know, I think the Feds might be disappointed though as its work related.

Good luck with it, took me 8 hours.

K

Explain yourself O'Great one...

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Go ask 4chan.

They'll have it figured out by the hour.

 

[gellert1984]

I'm going to piss myself laughing when this is solved by a 12 year old girl from Ohio.

 

[Quaidis]

I use to do stuff like that when I was in grade school. The real pickle is if it's in another language pre-cypher.

The parts with the dashes looks half-ways like a computer signature code (or whichever it's called), or something similar.

 

[caligula123]

I broke this and have a fairly complete translation, it is not code which is why they cannot break it.

The guy used his own abbreviations and works in an industry that most do not know, I think the Feds might be disappointed though as its work related.

Good luck with it, took me 8 hours.

K

Lol, bullshit.

Post what it means

No B.S, all they had to do was walk those pieces of paper into his employer and they would have known this guy for sure. He must have given them a real headache.

Let them have this first as I do not know what they want me to do with it and its possible others broke through it as well. I am really not sure to be honest as I know the industry and struggled, the use of various numbers put me onto it early, but its very hard to read.

Considering you made an account just for this I'm starting to wonder if you actually did crack it, seriously, post as much of your "fairly complete translation" as you can, I'm curious to see it even if it makes little sense.

As for what to do with it, mail it here:

FBI Laboratory
Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit
2501 Investigation Parkway
Quantico, VA 22135
Attn: Ricky McCormick Case

As stated in the article.

What do you mean "let them have this first"? They aren't going to figure it out, they've tried, they can't, if you think you have it, mail it in.

I called them, there is no other way to go with it than the way I went with it and there are 3 separate confirming aspects, the numbers confirm the industry, the work confirms the industry, and the language is pure industry. It has to be this way.

I made an account because I picked this up on Drudge Report around noon, when I got through the first page I went to search for the original story to see if they mentioned his line of work. What I got was this thread and 20 other sites.

Guy was a blue collar worker, and the entire first page appears to be his work orders for the day and what he was to do. The second page is more complicated as there are series of numbers and some of those numbers are jumbled and out of sequence, when you get them in the right sequence they are for parts, materials, and numbers that can track information that they actually may want. But what I cant figure out is why jumble a 20 digit or 18 digit number??. Either you dyslexic or maybe there is something else. I really do not know.

I will call them in the a.m and tell them, then I will tell your what this guy is so you know. I guess I posted it here as it was actively being talked about and I got excited after blowing a whole day on it.

 

[dmase]

I bet it was more of an original "language" where one letter equals another. We can assume this high school drop out is a genius, its happened before but its an easier assumption that he made his own little translation thing that can't be solved without knowing what letter equals what. Direct translation not something clever.

Anyways i'm having some epic epiphany or something where the e are oddly shaped, looking a bit like the egr symbol for strain. Which is the change in length over the original length so lets give mathematical values to each of the words with the deformed e and take the total change between two letters so (6-5)/6 and either add the numbers up to create one letter or round for each number given. There are various egr equations you can willy nilly throw in their, its some genius mathematical formula created by someone who had no comprehension of engineering yet would stump even MIT professors in the end. Of course this is bullshit and the guy just has bad hand writing.

Speaking of MIT, if the FBI hasn't asked them already I bet they could create a program to discover the pattern. I'll give them a year, well a couple weeks if one of the grads is feeling like getting in the news.

 

[caligula123]

I use to do stuff like that when I was in grade school. The real pickle is if it's in another language pre-cypher.

The parts with the dashes looks half-ways like a computer signature code, or something similar.

I thought the same thing, and that really through me off. What it actually is is a split work order, so he put the second part of the work in parentheses as it would have been handled through another department, therefore generating a separate ticket.

 

[Sandytimeman]

I'm pretty sure we've got someone here who can solve this, especially after that Puzzle adventure thing.
This story reminds me of the sculpture that resides at the CIA headquarters called Kryptos that holds similar lines of text. The artist, Jim Sanborn, assumed that the code would be broken within a year or two of the sculpture installation in 1990 but he's still dropping hints 20 years later so that the message is solved before he dies.
No one has solved it because they don't let people near the dam thing anymore.

But you can buy exact replica's of it, and in the article he linked it even has all the code just straight out show two you in the 4 sections. So access to the data doesn't seem like an issue there.

 

[mxfox408]

Dude just wrote random numbers to fuck with us. He is one good troll.

OT: I'm really surprised it hasn't been cracked yet. It's probably what I wrote earlier in my post.

Haha this cracked me up lolz

 

[iliekmudkips]

I solved it.

The dude was dsylexic. /topic

 

[teknoarcanist]

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

 

[Not George Carlin]

Locker combo.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

I'm 50% sure he says:

?Dying is for fools, amateurs.?



Don't Watch this:
(actually it's from http://charlieswinning.com/quotes/)

either that or the Origami Killer isn't dead yet...

 

[Greg Tito]

I'm pretty sure we've got someone here who can solve this, especially after that Puzzle adventure thing.
This story reminds me of the sculpture that resides at the CIA headquarters called Kryptos that holds similar lines of text. The artist, Jim Sanborn, assumed that the code would be broken within a year or two of the sculpture installation in 1990 but he's still dropping hints 20 years later so that the message is solved before he dies.
No one has solved it because they don't let people near the dam thing anymore.

Surely the text on it can be found online.....right?

In fact, the text is in the very link in the article. Here it is again in case you missed it:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/kryptos-clue/

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Totally look like CD-Keys.

 

[dj Facchiano]

"Eat at Joe's"

well done sir, whilst I was in reno we saw that commercial and did infact eat at that crappy diner wannabe known as Joes.

 

[crudus]

My guess? A one time pad cipher. Those aren't really hard to make unbreakable if you have been studying ciphers as much as the story would indicate. At which point you could better spend your time (and government money) to bounce a ball against a wall.

Besides, it could just be gibberish the guy left behind to piss people off.

Twelve years of studying would have yielded the result of "this is random bullshit" if it truly was random bullshit.

 

[Jama7301]

It looks like a password for an old NES game...

 

[lucibear]

So far this is what I have (my apologies in advance if anyone has already posted this, but I'm too lazy to go through all of the 3468 comments posted thus far to verify):

On the page titled "NOTES", the first 2 lines:

ALPNTE GLSE - SE ERTE
VLSE MTSE - CTSE - WSE - FRTSE

This is an address and phone number for the Missouri Institute for Mental Health, which is located in St. Louis, MO where the man Ricky McCormick who was murdered on June 30 1999 is from, according to the FBI help request (I have yet to find any old articles that talk about the details of this murder btw)

Address & Phone confirmed with Yahoo Maps: 5400 - ARSENAL STREET - (314) 877-6400
----------------------------------------------------------------
The three lines underneath that address...so far I got from it "PO DEPUE" (if you take every letter within these 3 lines that proceed the letter "N":

PNRTRSE ONDRSE WLD NCBE
NWLD XLRCMSP NEWLD STS ME XL
DULMT6TUNSE NCBEXL

I Googled "podepue" and "missouri" and I got results for Susan Depue, Sr. Research Specialist at the Missouri Institute for Mental Health (Interesting huh?)

The other information so far that I am getting from this first "paragraph" circled, is that this individual is talking about the nurse in charge, or the "PO" administered; meaning Per Os (mental health jargon meaning medication taken by mouth), that was given to him was the wrong dosage (thus reference to XL), sort of like Effexor XL or Welbutrin, but the dosage was given incorrectly which caused him great troubles or something like that; probably a psychotic reaction or serious health problems from this "error" or possible intentional experimentation on him. This paragraph is basically starting out by explaining what happened to him as a mental health patient and the improper dosage given. That is all I have so far...the rest is slowly coming along...the first page that I haven't started on yet, well this is a sort of diary of events from him travelling and doing something I can't tell what just yet, but you get a lot of driving directions and coordinates to a location.

I'm going to bed now. Goodnight.

I hope this helps. Thanks for your time reading this. Take care. JCM0511