Help me decode this (BINARY?)!

V4NT0M · 13 Mar 2010 at 22:33

OK, so over ten years ago I made a personal website when I was at college, it's still online and I found something funny in the HTML source code...

It was some binary encoded as "i" and "!" instead of 1's and 0's respectivley like so...

[i!!i] [i!iii i!!i ii!! ii!!] [!!!i ii!! i!iii !!!i ii!!i i!!ii] there was more but I edited it out to protect the innocent.

I substituted the numbers and each set of 4 binary block related to a letter of the alphabet, like A=1, B=2 and so on, so the message above reads:

"I will always".

HOWEVER, I came across another code but I cannot for the life of me figure it out!

!ii! !!!i!i!i !!i!!i!! i!!! !!!i!i!i !!i!!!!i !!!i!i!! !i!!

So most likely:

0110 00010101 00100100 1000 00010101 00100001 00010100 0100

But IDK!!

I guess it may not even be binary but after ten years the old noggin is failing me...

apeZ · 13 Mar 2010 at 22:36

Skyfall said:
So most likely:

0110 00010101 00100100 1000 00010101 00100001 00010100 0100

But IDK!!

I guess it may not even be binary but after ten years the old noggin is failing me...

That is missing 4 bits, binary code must be divisible by 8 if you wish to convert it to text.

If I add '0000' onto the end, a translator gives me: aRH!@

Which makes no sense whatsoever

Tr Insanity · 13 Mar 2010 at 22:41

I predict that it'll be something incredibly sad, and whoever cracks it will hold you to ransom for 78732493 Ugandan dollars.

Cosimo · 13 Mar 2010 at 22:44

It's 1712096392909124, no that can't be right.

whitecrook · 13 Mar 2010 at 23:00

apeZ said:
That is missing 4 bits, binary code must be divisible by 8 if you wish to convert it to text.

Unless it's 7-bit ASCII

Pho · 13 Mar 2010 at 23:34

Using the same way you did the first one, I get:

using i=1, !=0:
[!ii!] [!!!i!i!i] [!!i!!i!!] [i!!!] [!!!i!i!i] [!!i!!!!i] [!!!i!i!!] [!i!!] = F U d H U a T D
[!ii!] [!!!i !i!i] [!!i! !i!!] [i!!!] [!!!i !i!i] [!!i! !!!i] [!!!i !i!!] [!i!!] = F AE BD H AE BA AD D

using i=0, !=1:
[!ii!] [!!!i !i!i] [!!i! !i!!] [i!!!] [!!!i !i!i] [!!i! !!!i] [!!!i !i!!] [!i!!] = I NJ MK G NJ MN NK K

No good I guess?

whitecrook · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:21

FOXHOUND

BUT WHY?

Cosimo · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:28

whitecrook said:
FOXHOUND

BUT WHY?

... and how?

Biohazard · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:30

hmmmmmmmmm strange

Cosimo · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:39

Biohazard said:
hmmmmmmmmm strange

But not as hard to decode as this:

47693 94573 18483 59384 51839 47263 58347 21634 59347 73633 04732
38483 63933 74342 03843 37549 45839 59843 94784 83744 28483 93843

RastaManBob · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:41

simulatorman said:
But not as hard to decode as this:

47693 94573 18483 59384 51839 47263 58347 21634 59347 73633 04732
38483 63933 74342 03843 37549 45839 59843 94784 83744 28483 93843

R A D I O H A B A N A I S B O R I N G?

.Simon · 14 Mar 2010 at 02:49

whitecrook said:
FOXHOUND

BUT WHY?

A HIND D?!

whitecrook · 14 Mar 2010 at 02:54

.Simon said:
A HIND D?!

weird

V4NT0M · 14 Mar 2010 at 03:41

whitecrook said:
FOXHOUND

BUT WHY?

Funnily enough foxhound was a code word for something or someone else...

What pray tell did I actually do to this text btw?

Aedus · 14 Mar 2010 at 04:46

Skyfall said:
OK, so over ten years ago I made a personal website when I was at college, it's still online and I found something funny in the HTML source code...

It was some binary encoded as "i" and "!" instead of 1's and 0's respectivley like so...

[i!!i] [i!iii i!!i ii!! ii!!] [!!!i ii!! i!iii !!!i ii!!i i!!ii] there was more but I edited it out to protect the innocent.

I substituted the numbers and each set of 4 binary block related to a letter of the alphabet, like A=1, B=2 and so on, so the message above reads:

"I will always".

HOWEVER, I came across another code but I cannot for the life of me figure it out!

!ii! !!!i!i!i !!i!!i!! i!!! !!!i!i!i !!i!!!!i !!!i!i!! !i!!

So most likely:

0110 00010101 00100100 1000 00010101 00100001 00010100 0100

But IDK!!

I guess it may not even be binary but after ten years the old noggin is failing me...

Decoded: The game

whitecrook · 14 Mar 2010 at 04:46

Pho said:
[!ii!] [!!!i !i!i] [!!i! !i!!] [i!!!] [!!!i !i!i] [!!i! !!!i] [!!!i !i!!] [!i!!] = F AE BD H AE BA AD D

Hint: it's not 1 5 (A E ) but 15 (O) as per the square brackets around the original letter groupings.

pad each set of numbers ith 4 zeros to make conversion easy :

But wht is/who is foxhound. ? The forum must be told.

BigglesPiP · 14 Mar 2010 at 04:48

Why is that in your source?

A lollypop to the 1st person to decode this English sentence:

Code:

00011101010010000001111000011010010011000000010101010011010000010000010000011000000101100101100100000000001111010101010100010001000011110100110000000101010100110100000100011110000100100000000000010101000111110011000000000000000100100000011100001111000111100101100100010001000110000001001000000101010101110101110101100111

Edit:
The key is in this thread.

V4NT0M · 14 Mar 2010 at 12:51

whitecrook said:
Hint: it's not 1 5 (A E ) but 15 (O) as per the square brackets around the original letter groupings.

pad each set of numbers ith 4 zeros to make conversion easy :

But wht is/who is foxhound. ? The forum must be told.

Surprising that I encoded it like that originally, even more surprising I didn't think to do it that way now.

Foxhound referred to a girl I crashed and burned with in college, her surname being fox and all...