#scytale

[slabmangrave]

Scytale, Tleilaxu Face Dancer

#Scytale #fanart #dune messiah #dune

[pristina-nomine]

Dune Messiah character portraits by Marc Simonetti

#in love with all of them #look at that scytale #dune messiah #dune #marc simonetti #frank herbert #paul atreides #alia atreides #chani kynes #duncan idaho #hayt #princess irulan corrino #princess irulan #scytale #stilgar #bijaz #reverend mother gaius helen mohiam #edric #illustrazione

[beelze-bruh]

Dune du du du duuune

#dune #dune saga #face dancer #scytale #dune messiah #piter de vries #paul atreides #god emperor of dune #god emperor leto #god emperor of mankind #otheym #fremen #stillsuit #stillsuits #crysknife #kinda i messed up by giving it a hilt #art #sketches #character design #creature design

[super-hero-confessions]

#confession #dune messiah #scytale #irulan corrino

[catboyarg]

Hey Cellbit turns out I had a parasite in my brain making me weird so nvm actually I’m good! :) Miss you though, hope you’re okay.

(@daddestboyhalo)

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#puzzler #Scytale

[scoping-landscape]

Divisions of Codes and Ciphers

There are two kinds of codes/ciphers: transpositional, where your characters are the same, just moved about (like an anagram with a precise way to revert the encrypted text to the message), and translational, where your characters are in the correct position, but it's not the same characters (like a masquerade party).

The earliest transpositional cipher one would normally think of is good old Scytale. Imagine you have a tube, and wrapped around said tube is a strip of cloth. You have to make two decision: - How many sides does the Scytale have? - How many times can you wrap the strip of cloth around the tube? You have that? Good. Now, you write your message on the strips on the tube. For me, my Scytale has six sides, and I can wrap my strip four times around. After you've done this, you can unwrap the strip of cloth. What you should see is a bunch of characters with no rhyme or reason to it. The receiver, on receiving the strip of cloth, would wrap it around a tube of similar dimensions, and they would be able to read the message. My encrypted text: WSEARLIHSYULLIAFSLNWOA

The earliest translational cipher one would normally think of is our friend Caesar. Shift forwards/backwards by a number less than 26 (the number of letters in the English alphabet) to get a completely new one. My encrypted text: JURA GURER'F N JVYY, GURER'F N JNL.

While these are good in their time, there's just one problem if you use it now: It can be bruteforced. What do I mean by bruteforce? Well, let's look at the case for Caesar.

Since Caesar only has 26 possible configurations (assuming you're using the normal, unchanged alphabet), you can simply write out all 26 configurations, and see which one looks the most intelligible. For "JURA GURER'F N JVYY, GURER'F N JNL", it'll end up something like this.

KVSB HVSFS'G O KWZZ, HVSFS'G O KOM.

LWTC IWTGT'H P LXAA, IWTGT'H P LPN.

MXUD JXUHU'I Q MYBB, JXUHU'I Q MQO.

NYVE KYVIV'J R NZCC, KYVIV'J R NRP.

OZWF LZWJW'K S OADD, LZWJW'K S OSQ.

PAXG MAXKX'L T PBEE, MAXKX'L T PTR.

QBYH NBYLY'M U QCFF, NBYLY'M U QUS.

RCZI OCZMZ'N V RDGG, OCZMZ'N V RVT.

SDAJ PDANA'O W SEHH, PDANA'O W SWU.

TEBK QEBOB'P X TFII, QEBOB'P X TXV.

UFCL RFCPC'Q Y UGJJ, RFCPC'Q Y UYW.

VGDM SGDQD'R Z VHKK, SGDQD'R Z VZX.

WHEN THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY

XIFO UIFSF'T B XJMM, UIFSF'T B XBZ.

YJGP VJGTG'U C YKNN, VJGTG'U C YCA.

ZKHQ WKHUH'V D ZLOO, WKHUH'V D ZDB.

ALIR XLIVI'W E AMPP, XLIVI'W E AEC.

BMJS YMJWJ'X F BNQQ, YMJWJ'X F BFD.

CNKT ZNKXK'Y G CORR, ZNKXK'Y G CGE.

DOLU AOLYL'Z H DPSS, AOLYL'Z H DHF.

EPMV BPMZM'A I EQTT, BPMZM'A I EIG.

FQNW CQNAN'B J FRUU, CQNAN'B J FJH.

GROX DROBO'C K GSVV, DROBO'C K GKI.

HSPY ESPCP'D L HTWW, ESPCP'D L HLJ.

ITQZ FTQDQ'E M IUXX, FTQDQ'E M IMK.

JURA GURER'F N JVYY, GURER'F N JNL.

As you can see, the 13th one in the list is the one that is the most legible. If you don't know a key, you can bruteforce it. If there's not a lot of possibilities, then you get this situation, which both Scytale and Caesar has. Scytale fares a bit better, but it is still bruteforceable.

But there is a way to make the Caesar a bit stronger: key it. There are 26 letters of the alphabet, so there are 26! (26 factorial, basically the product of every number from 1 to 26) alphabets to choose from. The normal progression of the alphabet is but one of the ways to choose.

The problem with that, however, is that it's still very, very crackable. Anyone who has played Cryptogram before knows how easy it is to crack it without a key. Even if you have to use bruteforce to check, it's still rather solvable.

So we have to ramp it up somehow, but how? Enter: bigrams, trigrams, and polyalphabetic ciphers

#translational #tranpositional #scytale #caesar #bruteforce #cryptogram

[lathidraws]

The last Tleilaxu.

#scytale #chapterhouse: dune #dune

[oktobercountry]

Trying to sharpen my non-existent puzzling skills. This book was totally worth it.

Just solved a puzzle that involved a Futurama script?! Now I’ve discovered scytale ciphers and might be obsessed.

I just really want a box of cereal with a decoder ring inside.

Keep it secret.

Keep it safe.

#futurama #geocaching #puzzle #decoder ring club #scytale #cipher

[bloodyvastard]

okay but i love scytale so much. my freaky little guy!!! they're so fun and funky, i wonder if their adaptation can live up to them 😔

#scytale #dune messiah #dune

[qvww5dg8mfu]

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[whamcitycomedy]

dune messiah movie confirmed SCYTALE ON THE BIG SCREEN BABY!!!

#sooo excited #really want to to see edric too. and Alia. and hayt #but mostly scytale #dune #dune messiah

[gggoldfinch]

I cannot tell you how excited I am to see Scytale and Edric in the Messiah movie. Not only am I pulling for a practical effects creature moment aka Doug Jones as Edric, but I will also go to my grave hoping for Sam Spruell as Scytale. They’ve gotta be WEIRD they’ve gotta be ODD.

#let’s see if my prescience comes in clutch this time again #used to always imagine Scytale (who is my fav man in Messiah) as a younger Alfred Molina but now I can’t get Sam out of my head #you don’t understand he’s PERFECT for it too #dune

[aberration-abbey]

Scytale Glimmerwing, purveyor of the finest pigments and dyes in the Rubellite Delta!

#flight rising #abbey art #frfanart #fr fanart #fr beastclans #harpy #oc scytale #rubellite delta #glimmerwing clan

[beelze-bruh]

Dune leftovers (more to come in the future I just burnt out my special interest reserves for now)

#piter de vries #feyd rautha #feyd rautha harkonnen #sardaukar #elacca #elacca wood #hayt #scytale #ghola #face dancer #spacing guild #spacing guildsman #bene tleilax #tleilaxu #dune #dune saga #dune messiah #art #character design #creature design #frank herbert #sketches

[super-hero-confessions]

#confession #scytale

[catboyarg]

Cellbit something's wrong with me. Something's really really wrong and I don't know what to do. Phil hates me too and I think I can guess why but it was so long ago, and I didn't think I was doing anything wrong all that time I thought all the bad stuff I was doing was recent, so now I feel like I've never done anything right and there's just - something in my head, and it's making me remember stuff and hate myself and second-guess everything I do, and I'm scared to sleep and my head's started to hurt, like, all the time, and I need you I need you back, I'm sorry that I yelled at you and I'm sorry I swore, I deserved everything you said, just please come back and help me figure out what's wrong with me you're so smart and you don't judge me because, and this is kind of blunt, but you're the worst person I've ever been friends with and I don't need to pretend around you, and you don't judge me for anything I do because you've done worse, and of course you've changed and maybe, I don't know, you did- you did say those things and maybe you would judge me and please, please stop I don't want to be scared of you too I just. I'm falling apart. It's getting worse and worse, and the worse it gets the faster it keeps getting worse and I'm. I can't even leave the house anymore, I'm scared of everyone, and I can't sleep, and you were mean to me which means I can trust you not to lie. Just come back. Be mean to me again, please. Tell me what I'm doing wrong. Find out what's wrong with me. Did you leave because you hate me too?

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#puzzler #Scytale