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I'm Doxxing Myself!! (Not Clickbait!!) (With Style?!)

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ThatOneSpork

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Okay so here goes... it's taken me a while to build up to this point, as it's such a great leap. I've been a part of this community for a while now. So, now I would like to thank all my sponsors for today. Starting with Raid: Shadow Legends! This is the best game I have ever played, and I really enjoy going through the levels and beating up the bad guys. You get to choose from a lot of characters, and I would highly recommend this to anyone and everyone. Next up is Overwatch! This is the best game I have ever played, and I really enjoy going through the game and beating up the bad guys. You get to choose from a lot of characters, and I would highly recommend this to anyone and everyone. Last but not least, I was sponsored by Honey! This is the best product I have ever used, and I really enjoy going through the saving and keeping some money. You get to choose from a lot of savings, and I would highly recommend this to anyone and everyone. Now to reveal my address... with STYLE! -
Mwv Xeqs Umw Fsv Rgmiph Qk Lad Mcpv Mltukunr
Using a Vigenere Cipher, I have decoded my address! Anyways, thanks for coming to this thread and please check out Overwatch, Raid: Shadow Legends, and Honey!

Edit: Also big thanks to my parents for birthing me, they've been a big support in my life and are a great way to make people think I really am wholesome and deserve their likes.

Edit 2: Another thanks to my brother, who gave me the idea for this thread after asking me what Doxxing meant.

Edit 3: Thanks all you wonderful people, This has inspired me. I will be making another post in this thread once I feel the necessity.

Edit 4: I like editing, it makes this more entertaining than just posting it below.
 
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#### x Street, x, Arkansas/Colorado/Delaware/Illinois/Kentucky/Maryland/Michigan/Missouri/Nebraska/Oklahoma/Virginia.

Someone with more time than me can work backwards from that if this really is a Vigenere

E: can't be east or west, has to be a 4 number address

1/2/6 4/9 2/6 0/4/5/9
 
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I obviously bet on "one nine" and "Missouri", and I'm less sure about the place but my best guess is that it's Union, MO. But otherwise I'm as wise as you -- AOLspeak certainly helps making the key hard to guess*, and the key is probably longer than the ciphertext ("site" would have gotten cut off).

* either that, or OP was really good at planting a false lead
 
First we'll assume this isn't a troll (unlikely). Given that:

While OP called it a vigenere cipher, it is possible that the key is itself at least as long as the message, making the encryption a one-time pad and essentially unsolvable, even with the benefit of the cribs given (spacing, commas, the fact that it's an address, etc).

Even if the key is shorter and repeats (as one would typically do with a vigenere cipher) there is no guarantee that OP picked a key that is a word, which would leave relatively few ways to attack a message as short as this other than plugging and chugging possible cribs like the ones that Bog Monster suggests, but even then there's a pretty limitless possibility of cribs and key lengths, and the message is too short to do any real meaningful amount of cryptanalysis.

I would not recommend anyone spend any time on this.
 
Bughouse said:
there is no guarantee that OP picked a key that is a word
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No, but there is at least a good chance of the key being intelligible English because it probably begins with "QQ Y FYI" and ends in "TN ON A WEB", which is kind of outrageous if a coincidence :) You can't outright dictionary attack it because the English is obfuscated, but specialists could probably pull out a list of places in Missouri and work out the city (there doesn't seem to be many places with 5 letters), then the street.

One-time pads need truly random keys.
 
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No, but there is at least a good chance of the key being intelligible English because it probably begins with "QQ Y FYI" and ends in "TN ON A WEB", which is kind of outrageous if a coincidence :) You can't outright dictionary attack it because the English is obfuscated, but specialists could probably pull out a list of places in Missouri and work out the city (there doesn't seem to be many places with 5 letters), then the street.

One-time pads need truly random keys.
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(No idea why I'm even bothering to take this seriously, but here we are)

You've seemingly decided that TNONAWEB is the part of the key that encodes the final 8 characters, I'm guessing because it is the "most english-like" of possible ways to encode the final 8 characters as a US state. However, that is making a huge assumption that the final 8 represent a US state (granted, you could think this is a reasonable assumption of a poster on an english language website, but that presumes it's not a troll to begin with.)

For example, I could just as easily posit that the key ends QVWXWXVW, which would decrypt the last 8 to Pakistan, and is clearly too repetitive to be coincidental.

Moreover, the last word of plaintext may not even be 8 letters - it could just as easily end with filler, a common tactic in ciphers like vigenere. It could be UtahXXXX or BrazilXX or JupiterX. Using BrazilXX as an example, that would get decoded by EEGGGFYM, which is also quite repetitive to be coincidental.

Heck, just because the OP posted in english doesn't mean that the address isn't entirely in another language that uses the latin alphabet or even a transliteration of something written in another alphabet.

The point I'm getting at is that once you've decided something is most likely a one time pad (which you essentially are when you propose that the key starts with a 6 letter sequence and ends with an entirely different, non-overlapping 8 letter sequence), it does not make sense to assume any rationale to the key as you seem to be doing. Because the options are roughly limitless, one can find just about anywhere what one thinks are breadcrumbs pointing you on the right track, but that get you no closer to an answer.
 
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Well I'm looking at it but I really don't see how you can figure out what it says from just some wood.

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Bughouse said:
(No idea why I'm even bothering to take this seriously, but here we are)
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lol k thanks

my point is that "qq y fyi [...] on a web[site]" seems like a reasonable part of a message for the decoder given the context (and that the one substring makes the other more likely), which btw says nothing about the ciphered location being the OP's home address, it could well be some random or even made-up address that OP posted just to see whether someone could crack the cipher because that's more exciting to him than outright "trolling" (this is where we also differ either in our read, or in our definition of "trolling"), just like people back in the day deliberately sent ciphertext to edgar allan poe for him to try and crack

the point is not that the key or plaintext could nonetheless be any, because of course it can, but that this specific partial key with bog monster's approach to the probable plaintext is notably less random than e.g. letters repeating, to the point that i think it would have had to be planted deliberately if it isn't the key

if you think like this, why bother playing mons when opp could do "literally anything", the point is to get a read on your opponent and my read on spork apparently differs a lot from yours. including that he is probably from america, btw

(also the context of OP feeling the need to reply to me, but not Bog Monster, is a weak but not insignificant tell. people usually behave "weak" when they are "strong" and vice versa)
The point I'm getting at is that once you've decided something is most likely a one time pad (which you essentially are when you propose that the key starts with a 6 letter sequence and ends with an entirely different, non-overlapping 8 letter sequence), it does not make sense to assume any rationale to the key as you seem to be doing.
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this is particularly non sequitur
 
now that the intellectuals are done debating and this thread has run its course i figure i should give closure to domicile insect and mr. 3 vowels in a row, because they both seem like top lads. and i don't want their ghosts to haunt the earth looking for unfinished business or something.

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the only place where thatonefork lives is scamville - population 1!
 
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