Trying to decode a message. . .

[IntelSux]

Hey, I have a quick question. A friend of mine has challenged me to decode a message he found somewhere. It's not really a big deal if it can't be done, but I do want to impress him.

The message looks like it simply needs to be converted from Hex to Ascii.

Here is an excerpt of the data:

BE2001BF2001B92010AD357FC5AB4975
F8B80109BA2001CD21C3909090909090

2BAD1ABC5FA40DA05FAB10B15FA007A4
1CB113BC5FB00FE508AC0BAD5FB117A0
5FB116A81AB645E536E514A01AB55FA4
11BC0BAD16AB18E509A413B01AA41DA9
1AE510AB5FA806E510B211E50FA00DB6
10AB5FED0EB016B11AE50CB51AA616A3
16A61EA913BC5FAA11E512BC5FAE1ABC
5FAD10A91BA00DEC53E51BAC18AC0BA4

[...]

The first thing I did was convert the message to ASCII, but all I got was a whole bunch of junk.
Obviously some type of encryption is at work here. My question is: how would you go about further decoding a "random" message like this? Would you remove every X characters or MOD every value by a magic number?
Do you know of any good resources that would show how to decode this?I want to try to do it myself if possible.
Or is there a program that does it all for you?

[christian_F]

jesus...well its definitly going to be a pain :P

[ua549]

The first thing I'd do is to decode using mainframe character codes such as EBCDIC and ECMA. I'm sure that NSA can decode the message in a nanosecond.

[Strogian]

909090909090

what's that?