Need extra cash? Melt down your old unwanted humans we pay top dollar

Need extra cash? Melt down your old unwanted humans we pay top dollar

Futurama used to be my favouriate cartoon, and it gave a vision of a future world of robots where the AI had little regard for the intelligence of their human companions. The star — of course — is Bender, and who is a wise-cracking and surly robot and was created from the amazing mind of Matt Groening. Overall, Mat has a great passion for creating ciphers and puzzles in his work. He even presented his own cipher — an alien language (Alien Language 1; AL1):

It is first seen as a cipher in the episode, “Leela’s Homeworld”:

The mapping for this is:

And, so if we read the first letter of the message, we get “n”, and then two “e’ letters. If we continue we get: “need extra cash? melt down your old unwanted humans we pay top dollar” [here]:

There are most episodes which use ciphers, such as for Morse Code in this one:

If we zoom in on the AL1 cipher, we get:

and which gives: “DON’T DRINK THE EMPEROR”

If we zoom into the top graphic, we see that it is Morse Code:

The mappings for Morse Code are:

In the graphic, the first letter is — .. and which D, and the next is — — — (O), and then — . which is N, and then T, and the fully message spells out, “DONT DRINK EMPEROR”.

Overall, the AL1 cipher is not that secure, and involves a simple substitution cipher. This can often be broken with frequency analysis. But, Matt, also advanced to AL2 (Betacrypt 3), and which uses a cipher key:

Overall uses an Autokey cipher function, and is more complex to break. If you are interested, an example is here:

So, can you solve this:

If you are interested in ciphers, here are 105 different ones:

https://asecuritysite.com/challenges/ctf

Go, exercise your cipher brain!