Code D

DR BOTTOMLEY 31529 63776 21295 33399 44534 97341 68095 91847 99899 47843 91327 76794 07031 80431 91909 02118 97319 80497 17819 91998 59314 91931 41651 49161 97998 43089 11933 13937 48491 89198 98878 29905 90941 84992 89313 27810 43844 11818 39111 19562 74899 49301 99848 05075 50994 47717 11522 89919 13139 93187 87339 89438 64933 23042 09364 38899 25012 93143 93496 10193 68393 99855 90591 22893 84499 88299 23898 73571 38537 15395 81199 28050 39045 51198 32189 91192 71948 45160 15835 13817 89530 19314 97313 00149 44841 39991 95319 03338 19887 71111 82261 19390 95231 31788 08497 97784 11139 39519 34949 93559 35177 10951 18199 31599 70923 15122 98343 94109 31461 DR HORN



Discovery/Decryption

 * Found on a whiteboard in the chapter Questionable Ethics
 * The message was encrypted using a SECOM Cipher, with a key of "LASER OPTRONIC LINEAR INDUCER CANNON" - found on a whiteboard in the game.
 * The SECOM cipher was determined from the Code C message (Extension of a VIC Cipher).

Decrypted Message
When decrypted, the message reads:

Uses for the clue + potential leads

 * http://www.thestormseeker.com/thepizzaisalie
 * username : drhorn
 * password: 1001085139140914 (combination of Codes A-D)
 * Dr Bottomley is a friend of Stormseeker

Other Information
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 * An additional clue pointing to the SECOM cipher was provided by Stormseeker. After user faed discovered a password protected area on Stormseeker's website (/wibble), forum member CPU sent a private message to Stormseeker inquiring about it . This is the reply he received : ''Sorry, can't give you access to that one. Even though it looks like it, it really has nothing to do with the ARG. Congratulations though to the people solving stuff, you're all finally thinking outside the box. Obviously I would like to help further, but that would defeat the object of the game. Most people would have given up by now, which is a shame, you're all so very close to finding the answer.

It's everywhere you look.'' After a week or so, user Gunsrequiem realized that Stormseeker's reply formed an acrostic, spelling out "SECOM". It was not long before Gunsrequiem finally solved the code.
 * Due to the original description of the SECOM cipher being somewhat unclear on an important step of the cipher algorithm, namely the calculation of the two transposition widths, the JavaScript implementation of the cipher written by one of the forum users was not able to decrypt the message, even though it seemed to work with the example message used in the description of the cipher. At the time, the only tool available that could successfully decrypt the message, was a tool written by the author of the aforementioned SECOM cipher description. However, it took a while before the existence of this tool was discovered.

SECOM Cipher

 * A VIC variant using an extended checkerboard.
 * Only needs a 20+ character phrase.