Let’s start by making pairs to see what we have
ul ar ct eb ep ov ep eb ul ar ug ug ul ov an ul ay ep eb ul eb ct un
Not really obvious at first but these are months. They are using the 2nd and 3rd letters. We then have
Jul Mar Oct Feb Sep Nov Sep Feb Jul Mar Aug Aug Jul Nov Jan Jul May Sep Feb Jul Feb Oct Jun
We know these will need to become numbers in the end so let’s try to spot the passcode format. Jul would obviously be the start of number positions
Jul,Mar |
# |
Oct,Feb Sep,Nov Sep,Feb |
prefix |
Jul,Mar |
# |
|
|
Aug Aug Jul |
Keyword |
|
|
Nov,Jan |
suffix |
Jul,May |
# |
Sep,Feb |
suffix |
Jul,Feb |
# |
Oct,Jun |
suffix |
Now let’s construnct the index. We know that in Ascii, numbers are in the 50 to 57 range so July has to be 5
Jan |
0 |
Feb |
1 |
Mar |
2 |
Apr |
Skip |
May |
3 |
Jun |
4 |
Jul |
5 |
Aug |
6 |
Sep |
7 |
Oct |
8 |
Nov |
9 |
Dec |
Skip |
For some unknown reason, April seemed to have been skip in order to make everything work.
Replacing the month with these numbers we now have
52 81 79 71 52 6 6 5 90 53 71 51 84
Convert decimal to Ascii except for the keyword part 66 5
4QOG4 Z5G3T
Now for the keyword part, we have Aug Aug July. Let’s try the different pairs it would make
Aug,Aug = 66 = B
Aug,Jul = 65 = A
The only logical keyword is
Aug = august + Aug,Jul = 65 = A
Which make up the keyword Augusta
4qog4augustaz5g3t