singingbanana's codebreaking challenge

[satyvirjasra]

He acts like Xbox360 Avatar...

[redwaspx]

thank you for the tip about the book. read it yesterday. i love it!

[sequencius]

When will be ur next codebreaking competition?

[Mastersonsegg]

what was the answer anyway? :-P

[EclecticSceptic]

I really dont like codes

[jaykay1053]

Great time for a little yo-yo practice!

lol "I'll put it in the description..."

[111megamagic]

not a clue

[96axeman]

no clue.

[MyCatsNameIsSnowball]

I WISH I'd Won =(... ive read all simon singhs books.. love them.. didn't see there was a competition to win this =(

[singingbanana]

Maybe next time?

[MyCatsNameIsSnowball]

YEAH :D! hey... do you go to Cambridge university? you know of a guy named "Gunnar Peng" ?

[pianokeysman]

Ugh!I tried it..Failed..And now the solution won't load..Haha

[noname6500]

thats a cool code book

well i used to be

a cryptographer

[meeperz321]

LOL...he just stands there for like 3/4s of the vid...

[JOZZIE52]

i suck at code breaking im not going to be able to get it lol the answer vid will be intresting though

[KiranGlitch]

this is soooooo mathematicular that my brain can't process the answer but i think it has something to do with the most frequent letters

[mediteight]

I wrote a little program to try permuting the alphabet based on their frequencies but alas - the link to the page on Viginere's cipher shows i could've spent quite a while getting nowhere!

Using that page - the key length seems to be a common factor of

110 33 and 66 i.e. 11

[CreatingPulsars]

So my brain can't work like that. Didn't even attempt it. BUT I love how you just stood there for two minutes. And I don't mean that sarcastically.

[Ilopsen]

Lol, one minute and 57 seconds, actually...

[singingbanana]

I've now added some clues in the description. Solution video will be here soon.

[SLICKmanSINGH]

argh, well what was the answer?

[Nightmare2u]

I got it!!!

Sent the answer to your inbox i'd hate to ruin it for everyone else.

[singingbanana]

Nightmare2u did it!

[dave597]

ah well done - i did figure out it was the vigenere w/ key -11 but not sure what it is - waiting for ur solution :)

[kbmuncher]

congrats!

[Error081688]

ugh, forget it...

I tried a direct conversion from the frequency of these letters (or at least on possibility), and it fails bad.

Good job. I'm interested to see how this works out.

[Error081688]

That was in order from most to least frequent

[Error081688]

Here is the frequence of the letters (I think)

c e kv t ghr ipy muxz boqw j ns a dl f

[singingbanana]

I've added a frequency table to the description, if that helps.

[Error081688]

i've never done anything like this. very interesting!

are double letters some sort of punctuation?

[RonnielikesRealrock]

lmao

[bicyclemaster]

i need to know what KIND of decryptian this is

[bicyclemaster]

that would suck if he messed up while typing =p

[rootbeer9000]

does it say congratulations you have solved the cods?

[rootbeer9000]

*code

[Dudefromspace567]

i have a question how do u calculate pi?

[jonoiskool]

I'VE SOLVED IT!!! its all mumbo jumbo!!!

[richishard]

umm is it every letter is in the mumbo jumbo the same amount of times 13-14 14 i think ?

[singingbanana]

Interesting, is that true?

[FlySpades11]

I have two questions how old are you and what's you job?

Oh and this looks hard lol

[singingbanana]

I'm 28 and a mathematician, that much is on my profile. I was a university lecturer, but I currently travel the UK\the world giving public talks on behalf of Cambridge University. My job is awesome.

[KiranGlitch]

Does every letter stand for a different letter or aren't we allowed clues?

[singingbanana]

No clues I'm afraid :) Except, the method I used is a traditional code that you could find in any book or website on the subject...

[mismag822]

lol ... moderately fabulous prize.

I've spent the last 45 minutes going absolutely nowhere.

I haven't a clue what to do. I can tell you that there are 254 letters of which only 50 are vowels.

[dave597]

haha, great video, i look forward to breaking your code! :)

[v0lv0xx]

I tried for more than two hours without result. seems impossible. freak out.

[singingbanana]

I know it can be broken. It may not be simple but it is a straightforward codebreaking challenge, no tricks I promise.

[MrCrownKing]

lol this video is freaking hilarious xDD

[SLICKmanSINGH]

and bananaman has the mind of 20 Einsteins :)

[thepianoaddict]

funny you say that because einsteins brain was removed from his head, choped into peaces and put in jars :P not a compliment to say someone has a brain like that. :P

[mebethatthing]

very hard..

[singingbanana]

It's a problem, some people ask for harder stuff, some people want easier stuff. But I know someone will win this...

[jimmyrich1]

great video banana man, love this stuff!

[singingbanana]

Ooh, I like bananaman, he's cool. He has the strength of 20 men. 20 BIG men!

[agurkas321]

that is so hard!!!! :(

[mlg501]

I've solved it! What do I do now?!

[singingbanana]

Send the answer to me, let's see...

[singingbanana]

Just so everyone else know, mlg501 here had a preview and tested the code for me. So it is breakable, and the prize is still up for grabs.

[coyote463]

cool

[Wewuvwabbitz]

I KNOW THE CODE SEQUENCE!!!! Which algorithm I have to use...now it's just a matter of time.

[SvAbO666]

any hints?

im looking at this now for 2 hours :/

[singingbanana]

Are you in my house? It's only been up an hour!

One hint, and this is to everybody. The method is a traditional code that can be found in many books (or websites) on the subject.

[SvAbO666]

Oh... ye... 1 hour XD

felt like 2

[FlippyCatFanMan]

I Think the answer is:

singingbanana is the smartest guy in the world muhaha !!!

Ps: nice Yoyo tricks

[singingbanana]

The 42 of hearts is not the answer this time :)

[Yungsta187]

uhhhhhhhhhhh.........

[Moorich]

I'm gonna give it a try, I think I can break it. Though I surely won't make it first :( Still, looks like an awesome challenge, you rock singingbanana

[EpicEditingInc]

i have NO clue ... i got like one word

lol.. the word SWAP...if im close just tell me?

[Wewuvwabbitz]

vycrhrkpojocmcqkcqvnxzcecmtavc­edmvyckbuk eegleznwxfcyiroyrqenhoeiizhzlp­etuimqfvyc ukstthsprcmbthhcaxzguckbukeegl­kkghtbkoab wnvmutducypsryyqxhotcxwjvpxgcz­yegdqibhmv ktieogighvctjtpuvcwraotxicnvyc­qkwrcipuvt msxkgjeklpkspezesrdrgeznmvkwab­vwjcczwtve gjjrpaxghrbqhiv backwards times the formula of the quantum x of pi divided by 3 and multiplied by the square root of 182389 and the answer is!!! You have way too much time on your hands.

[prettyprince567]

OMG wtf how the hell do u crak that stuff

[christianblogger]

Wow!, congrats on whoever can get this!

[emjay1264jr]

why so long?

[guitarpope]

not even going try