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Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

#152
It is just a key for an encrypted ebook.

When you start to download an Adobe PDF a small file with the extension .acsm is first downloaded. This is used by Adobe Digital Editions to send the activation ID to the delivery server which will use that ID to generate an encrypted PDF/ePub eBook, which is then downloaded to your PC.

Write the code in a file and save it as 'foo.acsm' Login to the dead guys account and download his encrypted adobe ebook.

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

#153

I thought this could be a fun 'challenge'... I'm inclined to believe that this is potentially ciphered in English, due to, what look to be stiking similarities between the alphabetic character frequencies of the notes: http://d122.com/murdermystery/freq.png and the frequencies of characters in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English_letter_frequency_(... If anyone else wants to have a play here is my (roug…

You need to decipher the code using the Hungarian language not English. The only set of words in the entire two pages that could be translated to a meaningful English phrase is on the first line of page 2 (NOTES) The words are "SE ERTE", which means "I do not understand" in Hungarian. It is not unusual for people that speak foreign languages to intermix languages. In this case however, its placement on the first line…

I am a Hungarian and just reading the comments on this case. You are not the first one came up with the idea. Unfortunately, it didn't ring any bell in my language. 'I don't understand' is NEM ÉRTEM / NEM ERTEM in Hungarian. SE ERTE doesn't mean anything in this context. The closest thing could be NEITHER FOR HIM/HER = SE ÉRTE

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

#154
heres a queston:

Who added the computer j in the paranthasis at the top of page one and the paranthasis themselves in this section do not appear to be the orginial writers in either style nor weight.

I would go futher to say that someone has "worked" on this document.

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

#155

We know that he's had this "language" since he was a child so I'm going to go out on a limb here (and introduce no small measure of my own bias) and guess its not a cerebral cipher that will easily be unraveled by simple frequency of note correlation. I've likely got a touch of Asperger's myself and I know I have a bigger touch of synesthesia. I remember vividly during my childhood certain words being an explosion of…

Did you guys miss the zune pulse for 99.84 and the references to xlr (jacks for microphones and speakers).. I don't have time but look at this through the lens of Roadie... are there references to (audio) speakers?

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

#156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well over half the time E is used it is preceded by the letter S. It seems E is only used with very few letter preceding it. BE, LE, RE, TE and SE

not a reply. but at the bottom p1 (194 wld's ncbe) (194 countrys of the world map.) 194 recognized countrys in the new world order. dec 71 UN meeting investigate. sep 74 UN meeting investigate. re dec UN meeting investigate. E is used as a statement ending. its not code but personalized info. also look up compounding intrest and sinking bonds. 99.84.8 is a intrest table rate at 7%. 99.84% at 8 years

Does NCBE mean: National Centre for Biotechnology Education? Does WLD's mean World's?

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

#157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well over half the time E is used it is preceded by the letter S. It seems E is only used with very few letter preceding it. BE, LE, RE, TE and SE

not a reply. but at the bottom p1 (194 wld's ncbe) (194 countrys of the world map.) 194 recognized countrys in the new world order. dec 71 UN meeting investigate. sep 74 UN meeting investigate. re dec UN meeting investigate. E is used as a statement ending. its not code but personalized info. also look up compounding intrest and sinking bonds. 99.84.8 is a intrest table rate at 7%. 99.84% at 8 years

Does NCBE mean: National Centre for Biotechnology Education? Does WLD's mean: World's? National Centre for Biotechnology Education has to do with DNA, etc.

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

#158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well over half the time E is used it is preceded by the letter S. It seems E is only used with very few letter preceding it. BE, LE, RE, TE and SE

not a reply. but at the bottom p1 (194 wld's ncbe) (194 countrys of the world map.) 194 recognized countrys in the new world order. dec 71 UN meeting investigate. sep 74 UN meeting investigate. re dec UN meeting investigate. E is used as a statement ending. its not code but personalized info. also look up compounding intrest and sinking bonds. 99.84.8 is a intrest table rate at 7%. 99.84% at 8 years

if E is no meaning then: National Central Bureaus (NCB) - Each INTERPOL member country maintains a National Central Bureau staffed by national law enforcement.

Re: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

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We know that he's had this "language" since he was a child so I'm going to go out on a limb here (and introduce no small measure of my own bias) and guess its not a cerebral cipher that will easily be unraveled by simple frequency of note correlation. I've likely got a touch of Asperger's myself and I know I have a bigger touch of synesthesia. I remember vividly during my childhood certain words being an explosion of…

NCBE like a Place Like National Conference of Bar Examiners. Just i don't know why he want to write (FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE) (CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE) (PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE) Just the thing i don't know want the mean of the number... Just like he want to calculate some thing... I don't know...@@

OK i don't know how this may help you when i was a 18 month old kid i was partly stroke by lightning and did not speak until i was 5 and English was not my really first language was speaking Yiddish at the same time when i could talk again at about 5 years of age. i got no special help for a long time if i needed to spell something i just did it so i could understand it, i didn't care if some else could read it. i remember writing person like he did PRES OND AND I'M ALMOST 70 NOW MAYBE HE WAS LIKE ME AND THESE ARE HIS NOTES THERE NOT CODE AT ALL, BUT HOW HE SEES THEM sorry about the upper case i still do it LOL i had to use spell check or you would laugh at me so i was trying to read it like if i was a bad speller and i used to make my own kind of short hand just a try I'm sure I'm off base

Gary

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