Max's Cypher

Max's Cypher is an allegedly unsolvable cypher that was posted to the Cancer Caw on January 05, 2018.

It is a series of  2 character strings, one uppercase and one lowercase. The Cypher appears to contain but only 2 words, as deduced by experts. Max created the cypher, stating that the first to correctly solve it first would receive a $50 payout for the effort.

There is mass speculation of the legitimacy of the riddle itself, with many stating that the way that it was initially designed would only allow someone with a one-time pad to be able to solve it.

Another theory is that the cypher is in fact, incorrectly translated, making decryption impossible. It is also said that the Cypher is bullshit, that there is no solution, and that Max only created the Cypher to waste the time of anyone who tried to solve it.

Max maintains that the Cypher was completely solvable, and that the methodologies used by participants were incorrect. The only other person to know the message to the cypher is Ivan, only after purchasing it for $50 dollars, but the true solution method has yet to be discovered.

After its creation, the manufacturing of cypher's are now considered to be a High Crime.

Methods used
Attempts at cracking the Cypher's message have used a few different techniques to find the solution.

Ivan assumed, due of the format of the Cypher, that it was coded by use of a "Substitution Cypher", a method that switches characters out for one another, corresponding to a key. However, despite several attempts to deduce what the Key to the characters might be, research did not return with a valid answer.

Clab believed that there was a mathematical significance to both the upper and lowercase characters, valued based on the numerical order of the alphabet. From this assumption, Clab began to run computations that compared the sum, products, and dividends of the two characters against one another, but no equation or method seemed to produce a meaningful result.

The two later concluded that the Cypher was actual bullshit, and maintains that it does not have a solution.