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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26164717, member: 27832&quot;]The last string in the file (using the Unix &#039;strings&#039; command) is</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That string of numbers -- if you look at it as <i>pairs</i> of numbers, they&#039;re all less than or equal to 26, which hints that they correspond to letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just doing A = 1, B = 2, etc. doesn&#039;t produce anything that makes sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s too short a string to do frequency analysis, so I&#039;m expecting it&#039;s some constant offset. &quot;Rot13&quot; is a common rotation (add/subtract 13 from each), but that doesn&#039;t yield anything legible, either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the lowest number is 8, let&#039;s see if subtracting 7 from each one does anything. Nope, that either.</p><p><br /></p><p>At this point, I&#039;d either keep trying other offsets, or write a program to try them all and list the results -- but I&#039;m spending a bit too much time here. Maybe later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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