OP again , but nothing we don't already know

1) 0=0 A=10 a=36
2) 6EQUJ5
3) z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

we know it's base64 code
OP said "No sha or hash needed"

would also indicate that the squigly lines we added in don't really have anything to do with it.

OP posted


- 6EQUJ5

- No sha or hash needed

nothing has changed
https://blockchain.info/address/1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra

the answer was 6equj5 with 2x sha256

bump for this as well ^^ i guess you could say this is our progress today

Im stuck on just doing the old alphabet shift using the 0=0 A=10 a=36 thingy,

which im sure a lot of you have done, it has 2 characters in it that aren't valid, which gives
5CFPfwrPtEC8J7tj3DuRbKSsb6rV75k2KkaIxyoDXugn5vkt4DV
without them it's
5CFPfwrPtEC8J7tj3DuRbKSsb6rV75k2Kka xy DXugn5vkt4DV
the thing that stuck me is the wow jpg is all about rows/columns of 2 numbers and i've been trying to substitute numbers from the wow jpg into the gap.

but as usual, no joy, although i do feel like the clue is a priv key and we just need to figure out the conversion structure. I think i tried it with 0=0 a=10 A=36 too and instead of going z >0>1>2>3>4>5 i also did it going backwards but you always end up with at least one invalid character



The only other thing bugging me is that we used the WOW! to solve a clue but we never used the word BABY that was in there as well, I wonder why OP used that.

the changes or progress is as follows:





that's it

nada

the password to crops.7z led to the Wow.jpg inside, so it was before

So we're obviously close to the end or even the clue we are stuck on is the end, being 51 chars it could be a priv key that is coded somehow. I'm totally stuck so good luck to whoever figures out the next part

lol yeah , when i sha256 Wow! twice i get somthing different to the answer, so i'm intrigued to know what is the real answer because it doesn't seem like it was Wow!

only thing that sticks out for me is
1ndx (index)
V0lP (voip)
and of course the Roahzpeny (Rose penny)

but as usual dead ends all around and no idea which direction to take. zzzz

yes that's the original, so we're working with the info that has been changed which is
z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

that's the clue we have, but again no other help

getting boring for me now, such needle in haystack every time

So all we have now is the image and the clue z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P is it?

anything else to go on?

are we waiting for someone to extract the file within the jpeg?

fantastic job to getting that password, i bet a few of us had tried so many things so close to it, mostly including the BABY in there as well, then it turns out to be just WOW! lol

I tried sorting them into sections of 8 and it came out with :yÒwÈ  which is an IP for Santa Clara University but nothing worked that i could find from that

Gut says that the 0=0 A=10 a=36 thing is probably right and we just need to find right word or phrase to convert, but again it leaves you with a whole pile of possibilities, like you guys i've tried lots of dif names,dates etc and nothing worked

If ARG-sidekick can't find it i don't think i have much chance lol

The crop circle is taken from the Wiltshire Alien Face Crop circle, and the message within it has been decoded, i'm trying to find exact decoding but not on it yet.

The disc was deciphered by Paul Vigay by simply using ASCII computer code:
"Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. There is GOOD out there. We Oppose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING."

this was also interesting as the kaboom sound file has been messed with as well, so apart from the QR sound files at the end one other file was messed with, did it contain a QR file as well? i got the impression it didn't or wasn't checked, so then there's obviously a reason why it's been messed with

this is the post that OP mentioned in a brief clue then deleted by posting ***mirth2E so we should maybe focus on this a bit?

wow pretty amazing work that, way out of my depth, big props to figuring that one out.

So there is an encrypted file added to the space.mp4?