Probably. It's only six digits long. If we knew what to do with the numbers, we could have a computer run through the possible missing number combinations in a fraction of a second and get our answer.re-phaelam-ed wrote:Waz wrote:You're talking about something different (attacks on large datasets encrypted with smaller keys). We're talking about one-time pads here, which done correctly mean that you can't reduce your guesses. Try every possible combination and all you'll get is every possible six-letter string.BunnyRabbit wrote:Waz wrote:I bamlem jack bauer.Ken Cosgrove wrote:New code found on a pub jukebox in Southern England, embedded within another song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAGWMRjuEtU
Not sure if I've missed something about what you're trying to rule out ilzmastr, but the point of a (properly-done) message encrypted with a one-time-pad is that you couldn't rule out the decryption keys, because the pad/key will be long enough that your guesses would produce EVERY possible message. You could run through every possible decryption, and you'd find the messages "MILEY C", "BIEBER", "COFFEE" and "DEMONS" in your output. The point is that without the correct pad, you wouldn't know which one is the message you're after.
You can brute force a crib to unlock the whole thing if you can guess one thing that is in the plain text and have an idea that the technique used isn't based on a random pad.
was just thinking...lets say someone guesses the 6th num. it probably wont do anything till they enable whatever it is supposed to reveal. everything is probably timed. the release date is set. that wont change. it will either be the release date...or we'll be sitting with 6 nums till they let us know what its for.
But we don't. I really think this information is meaningless until we get a numbers station pad to decrypt them with (which is why I don't find this all that interesting... it's just a collection game really. "Watch all of our ads!" instead of "do something clever with these clues").
I mean, hopefully we're just all too stupid to have seen what the clever thing is, but I'm betting on it being a "collect the numbers and then collect the key" thing
I don't really see this as something that comes right out of the minds of Mike and Marcus, either. Seems like a ad agency stunt to me.
It's kinda fun, but it's starting to smell more of marketing than intrigue.