dewahwah commented on Nothing to see here folks, move along... reddit
Even with it being intentional, if it was to distract from other activities it still would be giving evidence of there being space interactions and 'future' technology. I might be misreading information, but it sounds a little counter intuitive as a cover up unless it is a part of a different plan of their's.
dewahwah commented on Help Decode Isaac Newton's Cypher! reddit
After choosing what information to put in they could have taken a cipher like (for random example) a Polybius square and fed the original text through to scramble it then broke the out put of that into a Hill cipher to mix it even farther. In order to crack layers like that the hill would have to be figured out first then the polybius either by a key phrase or pattern recognition. Almost every code has a special finger print in the way it scatters information. If the pattern can be found then we can be a step closer to solving it.