FERMILAB CYPHER

SOURCE: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2008/05/15/code-crackers-wanted/

Building a document to detail the solution(s) of the ‘Fermilab Cypher’.

Section 1 : Please see forum at source sight for breakdown of solution.

BASE 3 : Look up table (based on ASCII table value (x+64 = character):

Solution: FRANK@SHOEMAKER@WOULD@CALL@THIS@NOISE
SECTION 2:

Super Nova [ SN1987a ] ?

The supernova was originally suspected as a reference within the Cypher based on the time of the mailing of the letter AND the relevance to F.Shoemaker & Neutrinos.

There was a neutrino conference being held about that time, and it was near the 20 th anniversary of the SN1987a observation. (02/23/1987)

A lot of research / digging later...

Important details regarding the SN1987a detection.

SN1987A

2:52:36.792 First Possible Detection Time.

0.119870277777778 Decimal format of the day via Excel. ( First Possible Detection Time. )*

7:35:41.370 Second Wave of Detection times 4:43 hours later.

0.316451041666667 Decimal format of the day via Excel. ( Second Wave of Detection times 4:43 hours later. )

*Note: 1 1987 02...What an amazing coincidence that the FIRST neutrino based detection of a supernova was during FEBRUARY
1987! :D
Se ction 2, continued.

Hex from Cypher F0BE58F2FD63

Hex from Cypher 6C79D2E493E6

Se ction 2, continued.

Create Bin from Hex: ( F0BE58F2FD63 / 6C79D2E493E6 )

F <> 1111 <> 1111

0 <> 0000 <> 11110000

B <> 1011 <> 111100001011

E <> 1110 <> 1111000010111110

5 <> 0101 <> 11110000101111100101

8 <> 1000 <> 111100001011111001011000

F <> 1111 <> 1111000010111110010110001111

2 <> 0010 <> 11110000101111100101100011110010

F <> 1111 <> 111100001011111001011000111100101111

D <> 1101 <> 1111000010111110010110001111001011111101

6 <> 0110 <> 11110000101111100101100011110010111111010110

3 <> 0011 <> 111100001011111001011000111100101111110101100011

** Assumption is that there is NO lead bit

6 <> 110 <> 111100001011111001011000111100101111110101100011110

C <> 1100 <> C1111000010111110010110001111001011111101011000111101100

7 <> 0111 <> 11110000101111100101100011110010111111010110001111011000111

9 <> 1001 <> 111100001011111001011000111100101111110101100011110110001111001

D <> 1101 <> 1111000010111110010110001111001011111101011000111101100011110011101

2 <> 0010 <> 11110000101111100101100011110010111111010110001111011000111100111010010

E <> 1110 <> 111100001011111001011000111100101111110101100011110110001111001110100101110

4 <> 0100 <> 1111000010111110010110001111001011111101011000111101100011110011101001011100100

9 <> 1001 <> 11110000101111100101100011110010111111010110001111011000111100111010010111001001001

3 <> 0011 <> 111100001011111001011000111100101111110101100011110110001111001110100101110010010010011

E <> 1110 <> 1111000010111110010110001111001011111101011000111101100011110011101001011100100100100111110

6 <> 0110 <> 11110000101111100101100011110010111111010110001111011000111100111010010111001001001001111100110

Break Bits into 5 bit 'words'.(If Decimal is over 26 subtract 26.)

11110000101111100101100011110010111111010110001111011000111100111010010111001001001001111100110

Pos Bin Dec Ascii Hex >26? Ascii Hex

1 11110 30 ^ 1E 4 D 4
2 00010 2 B 2 2 B 2
3 11111 31 _ 1F 5 E 5
4 00101 5 E 5 5 E 5
5 10001 17 Q 11 17 Q 11
6 11100 28 \ 1C 2 B 2
7 10111 23 W 17 23 W 17
8 11101 29 ] 1D 3 C 3
9 01100 12 L C 12 L C
10 01111 15 O F 15 O F
11 01100 12 L C 12 L C
12 01111 15 O F 15 O F
13 00111 7 G 7 7 G 7
14 01001 9 I 9 9 I 9
15 01110 14 N E 14 N E
16 01001 9 I 9 9 I 9
17 00100 4 D 4 4 D 4
18 11111 31 _ 1F 5 E 5
19 00110 6 F 6 6 F 6
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2 => 2 Day of Event

4 => 5
G=GMT
6 => 2 ?
8 => 3
17 or
12 15 12 15 7 9 14 9 4 31 6 4 5 1G 23
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 3 5 7

2:52:36 Time of first possible detection.

0.31645
1 Time of second wave of detections.
1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
2 5 2 5 7 9 4 9 4
Section 3: S(f) (c)

Solution: Unknown.

Notes: $fc = decimal 252. Yet another instance of 2:52

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Section 4: : Please see forum at source sight for breakdown of solution.

Solution: EMPLOYEE@NUMBER@BASSE@SIXTEEEN