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RE: Puzzle: Decode the message - SBD Giveaway challenge
Darn, I did spend a significant amount of time and can say the second hint wasn't so helpful. Ah well. Good luck other folks!
I've been attacking it from the point of view that there's a substitution cipher (rotating is a special case) and some other dastardly manipulation involving a box of some sort. No luck there.
I was guessing an expansion of the original text into a three letter code replacements followed by some structured shuffling.
I give up :) . Fun puzzle though.
Give it another try after the third hint, then!
I think I need to know more about the second and third steps to make any head way, but likely any information you give could give it away?
Third hint is coming soon ;-)
Ohhh! Okay I'll see. I thought 2.1 was the third hint and thought you were just taunting me haha! :P
I just realized I made a logical mistake in the hints. Shame on me! The first step that I was talking about is actually the last step of the encryption! Post edited.
OMG. Clever! And I was at some point going "hmm... 4 letters are like nucleotides". Nahhhh that's not it. Cool, I think I know, just now need the right tool...
EDIT: I participate in this challenge (sent by steemit.chat)
Interestingly enough, my strategy of splitting into triplets initially would have worked with one more tweak , but without the hint I likely would have been stuck trying to figure out how to make the missing letters of the code we are supposed to re-encode with this method.