I think that the message obviously points to FatalException. He comes from the East (Asia) and slices and dices (ninja).

I told everyone because everyone had the ability to read that message, it wasn't hidden.
I told everyone how to solve it because if I die, so would the key to reading it since you are all fuck all lazy.
Basically, don't criticize me for putting in the effort to not just lynch blindly.

Terror from the east, slicing and dicing?
Computer crash?

Who is this?

If you had really chopped it up into blocks of 5 and left out punctuation, I don't think anyone could have solved it, ever. Being a secret key cipher, there are about a bagillion times infinity different keys that could've been used, or it could've been one of the 26! letter mappings, and we'd have been left in the dust. Even computer programs wouldn't have been able to help us. Don't even joke about doing such a thing!

A Vigenere square cipher is breakable using frequency analysis (assuming the ciphertext is significantly longer than than the key and/or the key is nonrandom - both of these were the case here). Even with a text-length key, if it isn't random, you can use strategies such as assuming any given three letters are 'the' (a common trigraph) and looking for intelligible bits of the keytext.

Only if the key is as long as the message and the key is random is the cipher fundamentally unbreakable (because the message is fundamentally indistinguishable from every other message of the same length). Use of this form, however, has been limited in the past because you need to securely pass a key as long as the message for every message sent. With the advent of quantum cryptography, we are able to securely send data with no key, with the caveat that roughly half the data sent is lost at random. Combine these two and you have a fundamentally unbreakable encryption system, which exists today.

Yeah but there's no guarantee as to what cipher you might use. You might use 8 ciphers for all we know.

yea but you didn't give us a key =O

DTBK post a day/time when this mafia day is gonna end

Lmfao!
How comes Inferno is still alive?
Haha, Mafia ftw! We're gunna win, stop trying, stupid townies!

Do you realize that there are only two mafia left, one of them being the don?

Isn't there three mafia left?

One mafia, one don, one mole. And the mole don't count.

Hmm, okay, it seems like the town has a bigger chance to win
Anyways, good luck guys.

I apologize, but I am unbelievably busy right now. I expect day to end sometime this weekend. If someone wants to run a vote count, feel free.

I vote FatalException.

Not because of Asia, Slicing and Dicing or Kattana's, but because of 'Computer Crash.'

Aka... a fatal exception.

VOTER :: LYNCH CANDIDATE

lil-inferno :: FatalException
Dark_Marine :: FatalException
FatalException :: Dark_Marine (1)
Corbo :: FatalException
Raccoon :: FatalException
Almost Alive :: FatalException
Shocko :: FatalException
l)ark_ssj9kevin :: FatalException (7)

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Current Lynch Candidate: FatalException

(I think I got everyone, but post something if I missed your vote)

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 26 2009, 12:45 am by Raccoon.

I vote Fatal

This has to be the worst balanced game in the history of forever.

the night/day never ends...........

I dont think its that unbalanced. The town found a lot of clues, I just think the town is good. Special role wise, the town-aligned roles haven't done that much. Doctors/Savers protected the obvious people (inferno) and mafia also tried to hit inferno. the detectives were wiped out pretty fast. and the mafia made a mistake by not making anyone vote for bbyte. the zombies, pyschos, and those roles, they didnt do so well. the zombies didnt hit any of the mafia, and they killed townies.

maybe the ratio of mafia:townspeople is a little unbalanced, but i just think its that the town played well, and found good clues

I honestly think that Inferno being revealed did more good than harm for the town.