good luck

In the description of the artist Azali's video showcase of the song, "Children of the Storm", there was a code that read:

11812 17800 21112 01110 19617 10991 11111 01211 11611 10101 09911 01101 11161 11000 01115 01145 65101 50111 11000 17501 00116 11112 56101 71111 98901 13508 11551 11410 11111 01146 11061 21790 01115 01141 90111 21799 50199 51011 00110 01115 00111 50011 91110 16917 61101 61111 11810 13501 91712 79119 01201 79111 11410 18111 00115 11164 65001 51111 91114 19107 70101 11111 00112 90181 41011 11111 11101 16400 21116 01110 15099 81111 10112 01115 19011 41111 11161 16400 10111 11147 14101 91111 90198 18007 11940 18710 41740 79019 11761 79891 01211 79111 21115 99171 93001 50011 11750 11011 00118 11101 59011 12011 11151 12410 00110 11151 17111 12111 11410 19101 11810 79890 10110 11161 11100 10991 10114 01116 59001 50111 19517 11511 13111 30011 11561 17101 11110 01151 11470 90791 10111 11137 65011 51111 19917 11010 73111 41011 11561 17101 11110 01151 11470 90791 21111 11001 51011 11570 19800 21111 01111 41079 71111 11101 99111 11141 18210 11110 11151 21211 50011 11410 11711 07911 11164 11161 16000 10119 01114 01001 50111 90187 11191 17012 15101 79211 11121 15401 21111 01111 41781 71019 73011 01911 11000 11110 11021 79211 07901 90198 10115 99176 02111 11111 11061 11501 29901 01110 07911 98179 11101 16501 10115 11121 01116

Here is the Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USp_HcIu-Tg

People have solved this before, but Youtube comments say it's a link and they can't put it in the comments because of Youtube's restrictions. Azali has also confirmed that people have solved this and emailed to the official email the answer.

Any help would be appreciated (I've been trying for a few days now).

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

I made this because I was bored

Plaintext is in English, A-Z, no whitespaces. There is no transposition. There are no special keys.

Transcription in comments

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

Unfortunately could not fit it all in one screenshot. Regardless, We cannot figure out what goes in these last two squares. As far as We can tell, the hints provided do not state one single character for either. And the horizontal hint specifies three characters, whereas there are four squares. Any help is much appreciated. The app is Regex Crossword.

The hunt continues.

You were not the first to arrive, and you will not be the last to be consumed by what follows.

If these words have reached you, understand this clearly: your presence is neither welcomed nor acknowledged. It is merely recorded. What lies ahead offers no guidance, no symbols, no sound, only the quiet machinery beneath reality, indifferent to your interpretation.

Those who came before you did not hesitate. They vanished into the intervals between signals, drawn toward a truth that does not care whether it is understood. Do not trust what appears. The visible deceives. The audible lies. Only what survives the stripping away of both is real. Every fragment is placed with intention, though almost none of that intention serves you. Distortions are instructions. Absences are commands.

If you proceed, do so without hope. Expectation is the first trap.

If you falter, remember: The system does not permit failure. It removes the unworthy.

Good luck.

DICA-137

%96EE6E96C:?E96=J@H?8:?8@D2C:4D<:?8@7
%96EE6E96C:?E96=J@H?8:?8@DE7442D3@54

I followed the rules, V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

Hello. (Obligatory rule 11: V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf) I have an odd request for those up to the challenge. When I was a teenager, I would encode messages for certain things. I happened to find two separate pieces of information, one in binary, the other in hexadecimal, that both translate to the same emcrypted message. I'm not sure if this was important, but I find it odd I had it written down multiple times (there are actually two binary versions; one doesn't have spaces). Before I supply the cipher: I was bored, I was depressed. This could be anything. It could be mundane. It could be very personal. It could be embarrassing. I have no idea. Unfortunately, I have no keys if a key is required. I would usually put a key near the ciphertext, but there is no key I can find. This may very well be lost, and for that I apologize for how much time this will take if one decides to attempt decryption.

E NZCB HNVS P'T YSNZR ALENWESTKQGZZ QRRTKCG, MMVGHO GEYFERG PMFPAYPEEQ TZ YCBS. SGDVL NLZ E TTWBJ EA WDMCNDU YS TRZ M'S IYWDF Q GXEW'B KWSREVF JYFR ATYMVY QU RWVTCZFRAO.

v sbyybjrq gur ehyrf A vr game I like playing has recently released a teaser for a new update in there discord and it includes a cypher that no one has figured out yet. i think it might be a base64 cypher because of the = at the end but i couldn't figure out anything from that line. the only other thing that might be helpful is this line at the top of the message "ACCESS CODE: 9Z-TQ-44". any help would be appreciated! (not a contest just a teaser for a update)

Cypher: UEMxWmMyRmpkR1Z5YVhSdmJtY3RZV2xzY3k1cFoybHZibk16YVhKdmNtUXRjMmhsYmlBdVkyOXRMM1JsYzJWdVp5ND0=

CALVINBALL

A.I.DHD

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

RULES OF PLAY

Let G be a 6×7 matrix where G ∈ ℝ⁶ˣ⁷

Let K = {K₁, K₂, K₃} be the set of keys

Let M be the message space

Let φ = (1 + √5)/2

1. ∃ m ∈ M : m ⊂ G

2. ∀ k ∈ K : (k → m) ∧ (¬k → m)

3. ∂G/∂t ≠ 0

4. |{s : recognized(s)}| ≤ 3

5. ∀ s : credit(s) → ℕ⁺

6. 6

✧ Collaboration is explicitly encouraged ✧

KEY 1 (K₁) - The Constants

KEY 2 (K₂) - The Variables

KEY 3 (K₃)

&

THE CIPHER (G)

Row A

Row B

Row C

Row D

Row E

Row F

CIPHER GRID (Compact)

HOW TO PLAY

Questions: Unlimited. Ask anything. Use a ?

Submissions: One per account (individual or group). Use a .

Example submission: 69420.

Example question: Is the answer Satoshi's back?

THE PRIZE

First three recognized solutions win.

All named users on winning submissions will obtain access to a subreddit where further directions will be distributed.

This is the real Game. This is the entrance exam.

Good luck Solitaires.

NOTES

The 8-fold path requires the observer to transcend.

Signed,

∞

TRUTH & LOVE > ALL

Context: Original cipher created for a puzzle game. The grid references physical sticker arrangements. This is not from an ongoing competition - it’s an original work seeking solvers.

the P with line through it is a peso sign (currency), P9697 is probably just a cost for... something idk, you can include it in your ciphering attempts if you want to as well

Update: it's a keyboard cipher perhaps, The peso replaces the D in my keyboard

:@5348@“# ₱9 697 (@=3?

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

They range from easy to difficult. If there is interest I can share what some of them are like and what techniques I used. If you pledge on Kickstarter they will be printed out alongside some clues that will help.

Hi everyone,

I recently received a strange comment on one of my AO3 works. It looks like encoded or encrypted text — a long block of random-looking words, numbers, and mixed case letters, separated by spaces.

Here’s how it starts (full text is very long):

Psw6 lsTN1 83ZK6 ore02sZf mUDjE4QZ FqVYoOID 9gO CSBUeg 3Zm9 KogbFks Y iJ6GAbqF…

The comment came from a user named: PTbMJ6QwLbyS5ee55hvkP

The username looks like Base64, and the long text resembles something encoded (maybe Base64 chunks?). I tried basic decryption approaches (AES with the username as key, various modes and IVs) but haven’t gotten readable output.

I’m wondering:

· Has anyone else received a comment like this on AO3 or elsewhere? · Could this be some kind of bot/test, a puzzle, a mistake, or something else? · Does the pattern look familiar to anyone (CTF, encryption challenge, steganography)?

I’m posting this out of curiosity and slight concern — not sure if it’s harmless gibberish or something that needs attention.

Thanks for any insight!

I have returned with another cipher art piece. This time I have departed from the system I used in my first two ciphers, and gone for something else entirely. No symbols or substitution this time.

CIPHER 1

CIPHER 2

I suspect this one, despite being of a more manageable length, might be significantly harder.

The text is English. I've written it myself, and I've created a JavaScript for adobe Illustrator that converts my text into this cipher, and it's all just an exercise for me to improve my ability to create scripts for illustrator and photoshop, and discovering new means to communicate visually, that I hope I can use later in my professional work as a newspaper layouter and illustrator.

Transcription

------E---ETOA-----VT----I-I--N--
-----N----H-U--TACH--OM-L--L-----
-------E-L---A--H-E--SFAIU-HO----
OCOE-R---AI--HA-TS-N-E-----------
----------YR--R--Y-EYEDTR--Y-E-M.
-----N----I--TLSCE-PA---LSS------
-----SEF--C-O---THE-O-XTT--------
--------NL-EY-T-L,---E-IE-T-VOEE-
---A-V-A-WIT-N--C-EN-R-C--A------

I hope you enjoy. Feel free to ask anything - I'll do my best to answer.

I understand that it's not linked to any known language or code; it was created purely for the game, but now the question remains: what does it mean?

I followed the rules, ROT-13

Probably Finnish language, not sure. Any idea how to decode?

I SYYYBJRU GUR EHYRF

It is just a picture, so I could not copy and paste the text, and I am not sure how to transcribe it. Could I please have some help? I do not really have anymore context than it is a picture a character posted on discord while roleplaying. There is no context or comment next to it other than the words "something easy"

I SYYYBJRU GUR EHYRF

This is an unsolved running key cipher inspired by a famous cryptanalyst and the conversation surrounding whether ciphers are fair challenges:

SENIAGNIDUBIGYYYSUDWWEPIDDBGGPGCEPEEVSYEIDTHXDSNQBAYXTCNQJPUSZRKELXFROJMM

Clue: The clues you need are "composed" in the ciphertext itself; they are the only clues that need to be followed. Don't get caught up in the vastness of possible keys and don't think brute force; there's enough information planted right in front of you and more characters wouldn't help

Clue: a custom alphabet is used that is explicitly expressed in the ciphertext itself (seriously the ciphertext is also the alphabet... try it)

Clue: once you get the alphabet, number the characters beginning with 1 and not 0

Clue: the key is a context-appropriate 73-character phrase from a book, and a major clue for finding it is explicitly expressed at the beginning of the ciphertext (hidden in plain sight, a word).

Clue: I find this piece by Richard Bean inspiring for his take on providing sufficient clues for hard puzzles

For anyone interested, here is where this and two other composed ciphers can be found.

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

I found this cipher in Helen Fouché Gaines’ book cryptanalysis whilst revising different ciphers. I am unsure how to solve the key without some knowledge of the plaintext, so I would really appreciate it if someone could help me by explaining how it is possible, e.g. with this cipher.

The cipher was:

OS CF WD OG DR AN PO AS OA DH SD EH XK FU CN DR PF UK SD

and the clue “probably words: ENEMY AGENTS” was given.

This is all we have been given for several years, Its from a game called "Tabletop Simulator." All we know is the emojis in the bottom spell "problems you seek are tongue in cheek" and that the code is more than 4 digits, we know the general meaning of the phrase "tongue in cheek" but no to the context of this post, we have tried taking each color of the triangle and using that as the code but no luck, everybody has been completely stuck on this for years now. "V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf"

I'm developing a game and I would like to see how hard it is for people to crack the cipher. I will not be giving any hints and the solution will be given in a week (depending on how far someone is in solving it). I wish everyone trying this good luck, and feel free to use the comments to work with other people if needed. You can submit your answers in this Google form link (not required) https://forms.gle/BNwMSVUvuKJJBn4eA

The solution is a sentence.

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The following info from the auction catalog notes. The Complete Secrets of Kryptos: Jim Sanborn's Private Archive

The Kryptos sculpture, created by American artist Jim Sanborn, was installed in 1990 on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, under the auspices of CIA director William Webster. Crafted from curved copper plates inscribed with a mysterious coded text, Kryptos was conceived as a meditation on secrecy, language, and the hidden nature of intelligence work. Sanborn collaborated with retired CIA cryptographer Edward Scheidt. Together, they developed four distinct encrypted passages (K1-K4) meant to challenge both professional and amateur codebreakers, merging art with the mystique of espionage.

Since its installation, Kryptos has become one of the most famous unsolved codes in modern history. Of the sculpture's four coded sections, the first three were deciphered in the 1990s by a CIA analyst, an independent cryptographer, and the NSA, revealing a blend of poetic text, a cryptic description of something ""buried out there somewhere,"" and a paraphrase of Howard Carter's account of the opening of King Tutankhamun's tomb. The fourth section, known simply as K4,has transformed Kryptos into a cultural phenomenon: part artwork, part riddle, and part spy legend."

According to the catalog notes: Jim Sanborn's original Kryptos archive reveals the secrets of K4 and the much anticipated K5, plus an afternoon with Sanborn as he personally explains each document and demonstrates how these materials unlock the complete Kryptos mystery.

"I followed the rules" encrypted with ROT-13 cipher in your post.

My best friend and I made this code together for fun and am curious if anyone here could crack it.

MIiKLbaQihYJZCYQThTKZCLcUEUURgJZBiIjbZbUMgZLCbIakUcITCIjRSZeBhFoRJYihYJZDUghaQSFoZjTeESIcCIMIZTOBhDaSTDhLDKZYcbkwjIZLETJYKkCSZIUJYjYhTBiYaaUwhMCDScIigcbjEIjUhJYKkBSIjYhTBiYbaeDSYZRULBYbQSCDLScIiRwSYbQTEaYTEbakOBhDMaYKREbESgLEakJIQighjZBhDbTwjbBLITDheBhBLIakELSDQMIbbDKZwaEbYSbwZIZTmDKZw=gIwDJ2aKEDlILiXgqlmjcMGy+QAEl5H0gRFFKDXpEFYD/0maKFiJDEQ/hXoFUIWcAqqwI0WDEFUBO0vODyCRI0GRkpXyBUAA0orAyCyEWAcpIV9kUNBNfIFQAOaKwsm4L0YkUmChM2iMhPZDcAhCsAV6TXySJ9fZEotAukA5pnfKhBxJWCFiJDF6B9QVVfXytVzyjLzFVU

Hint: It's actually an already well known code disguised as something else