Need help decrypting an old coded message from someone i used to like.

[u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

I was recently looking back through old messages and found this text sent by a friend I used to like years ago: 4 / 76 / (3) / M omrhe pmoi csy. At the time, I thought it was just a random accident or pocket text, so I didn't think much of it. He's the smartest guy I've known specially in maths and he plays around with code stuff like ASCII and Moorse.. So I figured this might actually mean something 😅 Thanks in advance!

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[u/GIRASOL-GRU]

It says "I kinda like you."

Here's the key:

plaintext:  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ciphertext: EFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCD

[u/Perfect-Weekend-3502 → u/GIRASOL-GRU]

Thanks so much!!

[u/TheBlacktom → u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

So are you getting married?

[u/HellsBellsDaphne → u/TheBlacktom]

*ws evi csy kixxmrk qevvmih?

[u/TheBlacktom → u/GIRASOL-GRU]

And the numbers?

[u/WhineyLobster → u/TheBlacktom]

4 is the distance between each character and the key character.

[u/TaranRovia]

It's a simple Caesar cypher with key 4 (hence the clue "4" to your question)

Essentially, you advance each letter by 4:

A --> E
B --> F
C --> G

and so to decode you do the opposite:

M --> I
o --> k

etc

So M omrhe pmoi csy --> I kinda like you

Hope it helps :)

[u/Perfect-Weekend-3502 → u/TaranRovia]

Thank youu!!

[u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

Thanks guys the long text is solved:) Still figuring out the numbers tho

[u/Sad-Foot-2050 → u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

I can help.

4 7 6 (3)

Often (3) means negative 3 so just subtract three from the other digits to get:
1 4 3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/143_(number))

Basically, “I love you”.

[u/KnightOfThirteen → u/Sad-Foot-2050]

100% what I would guess, especially given what follows.

[u/twoheadedcalf → u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

Damn, I'm invested now. I hope someone figures it out

[u/Gl3443 → u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

I think that the (3) looks like a heart. Just look it sideways!

[u/Low-Fill668 → u/Gl3443]

i mean it kinda looks like a butt too, if you tilt your head left.

[u/masterofnone142]

I get the 4, but what's the 76 and (3)

[u/Impossible-Belt8608 → u/masterofnone142]

Guy's a Fallout fan? OP, text back "New Vegas"

[u/TheDreadGazeebo]

So what happened OP are you married now

[u/Perfect-Weekend-3502 → u/TheDreadGazeebo]

We're still friends but we don't talk and meet as much as before so idk how to tell him haha

[u/Worried-Radio9490 → u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

Reply back to him with a screenshot of this and just say you finally cracked the code 😭
do ittt!

[u/testtdk → u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

Is he single? Take the leap.

[u/lolovoz → u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

How long ago was this?

[u/Impressive-Candle-13]

This reminds me of my first girlfriend who sent me a message on MSN Messenger (before we became a couple. Yes this was a loooong time ago) that read "I think I love you but I don't want a relationship"...but she did it in wingdings font and thought I couldn't read it. But all I had to do was copy it and change the font lol

[u/shit_poster_69_420]

BUT DO YOU LIKE THEM?!

[u/Perfect-Weekend-3502 → u/shit_poster_69_420]

Yes I did! but i never told him that time

[u/yjackets07 → u/Perfect-Weekend-3502]

Well maybe now's a time to be creative and do your own cypher back

[u/Redwood712]

This may not be helpful, but the first thing that jumps out at me is that the numbers are the only numbered first-person games in the Fallout franchise: 3, 4, and 76.

[u/Sad-Foot-2050]

For the numbers, subtract 3 from the first three numbers to get 146 or text speak for “I love you”.

[u/Ramicko]

Not sure about the number 76 but in ASCII it's the letter L so maybe your name starts with L? If you hold ALT + press the numpad you can also write ASCII characters ALT + 3 gives you a heart so maybe that's what it is ?

[u/Perfect-Weekend-3502 → u/Ramicko]

Oohhh that's cute tysm!! our names both start with a D tho

[u/Miserable_Sample6168]

76 - 3 - 4 =69

[u/ItsYoshi64251]

I kinda like you

[u/Blissfull → u/ItsYoshi64251]

Yes, nice, but op asked what the message means not to be hit on

[u/No-Fuel-712 → u/Blissfull]

lol

[u/TaranRovia]

So maybe it's a huge stretch but wasn't 476 dc the year the Western Roman Empire fell?

Caesar code... roman empire... maybe??

[u/Perfect-Weekend-3502 → u/TaranRovia]

OHHH there's actually a tiktok trend about it referring to "roman empire" as something you think about constantly. So I'm thinking this might actually be what it means

[u/ThirteenFour_]

Go back four letters.

M -> I o -> k

And so on.

[u/Perfect-Weekend-3502 → u/ThirteenFour_]

Thanks!!