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"Scrawled" on the back of the map is "The journey inward begins.... Etc." Maybe flip the map over horizontally? Vertically? Both? Work from there? Could be useless of course.
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Maybe it's me, but that just makes it more confusing...
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Hadn't seen anyone mention this so I thought I would. The description of the cell: You are in an iron chamber, the walls are lined with iron pipes. There are chains suspended from the pipes and rusted gears are scattered about the floor. The sound of dripping water echoes in the chamber. Sounds like the description given in QR code #9: You are in a rusted iron chamber. Water is trickling from large iron pipes above you. On the wall someone has scrawled: “When in your house black crows give birth to white doves, then you will be called wise". Which fits with the skeleton/map/knife/note piece. Guy wrote the message on the wall before he died. I tried look at wall and a few other combinations of words and got nothing. Tried typing key words of the phrase into the keypad and nothing. Maybe the message maps to the clusters on the map somehow. Random pic of crows and doves, pay no attention. Sounds like one room is above the other. Journeying inward? You can't kill a skeleton; at least as far as I know. Edit: still feels like we are looking for a door key, phrase, username&password, random characters. I'm not so good at these.
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Surely that's not an english plaintext, frequency distribution doesn't fit. We can try a bruteforce and see if something show up.
Brute force is against the "rules", no? The earlier brute force comment was related to my not-so-serious suggestion that the password could be brute-forced against their api, which be similar to a DOS. There are no rules to anything that is done offline that doesn't affect others. Makes sense. I should have edited my post. I was under the presumption that is was puzzle-wide, if you will. Sorry to clog up the thread.
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1b 7a 6b 3d 8a 7b 3b 9b 2b 1a 9a 7d 6a 8d 8b 4b 2a 6d 5b 5a 2d 5d 4d 4a 3a 1d *b *a 12 10 10 10 9 9 9 8 8 8 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 1 1 So there's 26 unique characters, so we probably just have to assign the right letters to these. Surely that's not an english plaintext, frequency distribution doesn't fit. We can try a bruteforce and see if something show up. Brute force is against the "rules", no?
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Diagonal? north east to south west and rotated 180 (Early and no coffee yet)
Yeah,was a bit too quick to write that, whatever way you split it evenly is going to give two very similar sections. Just seems weird that on such a large image there are only 2 differences in the pattern and they are very close together. Tried manually decoding it as an Aztec anyway, but didn't get a working code, although i could have made a mistake. I tried the same last night to no avail; even with a straight edge and grid paper.
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I don't think it's a valid Aztec code because it's missing orientation marks. However the pattern is quite interesting as if you split it horizontally the two halves are almost identical, and i find it hard to believe that that is a complete coincidence.
Diagonal? north east to south west and rotated 180 (Early and no coffee yet) Still not a code though... Just an observation.
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it seems like the video url is from a previous puzzle, probably is not related to this one
Oh... well bummer.
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May have nothing to do with anything, but there is some commented out HTML in the page source containing the zoomable image. I'm using safari, not html5 compliant.... so others may have already seen this; though it's commented out..... http://whit3r4bbi7.com/alpha.mp4 <!-- <video src="alpha.mp4" class="img-responsive" autoplay="autoplay"> You'll need a web browser that supports html5 MPEG4 to view this video. </video> -->
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What data are you basing this question on? Seems pretty general.
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I haven't posted for a while... (With my reasons)
This is hilarious.
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Linked from here: https://hashtalk.org/topic/12390/bitmain-confirmationAfter a conversation with one of our customers, I decided that there is more I can do to create more transparency without giving up any competitive information. So I am creating this thread to ask Bitmain to confirm some of our orders. Bitmain, can you please confirm that GAW Miners most recent order was over 5 peta hash? Nice work!
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I'm certain it will hit $1 when bitcoin hits $1 billion.
+1 very practical comment. If we're talking hypotheticals, then this makes sense.
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Yes, but we've had the explicit information to NOT brute force it.
I don't remember seeing explicit OP info not to, just a post or two about a general rule. I stopped myself a few times because of those postings... error on my part Actually she did. The OP posted a picture that said "DO NOT BRUTE FORCE" as one of the rules of the ARG so it's pretty insufferable to make brute forcing one of the key goals of a task. Ahh thanks. I saw this a few days late.
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Yes, but we've had the explicit information to NOT brute force it.
I don't remember seeing explicit OP info not to, just a post or two about a general rule. I stopped myself a few times because of those postings... error on my part I was just bummed to find that the posters (me included) were all stuck until a clue from the OP. This happened a few times. Maybe he/she just wanted to be involved throughout the hunt. I get it I guess. At any rate, it was fun to think through for the most part. As far as I know this is the OP's first puzzle like this? At least I can archive this directory and move on with my life
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Oh well I'm trying it from several hours It's 4am here now and i can't do it anymore.. I did some mistake, probably you guys can do it properly.
OP said A = 10 BabyA a =36
Now take a look at your keyboard.
QWERTYUIOP Q=0 W=1 E=2 R=3 T=4 Y=5 U=6 I=7 O=8 P=9 ASDFGHJKL A=10 s=11 D=12 F13 G14 H15 J16 K17 L18 ZXCVBNM Z19 X20 C21 V22 B23 N24 M25
Now if we will carry digits to lower case qwertyuiop q=26 w27 e28 r29 t30 y31 u32 i33 o34 p35 asdfghjkl a=36 s37 d38 f39 g40 h41 j42 k43 l44 zxcvbnm z45 x46 c47 v48 b49 n50 m51
So something in the lower case set, maybe "W", is changed to capital? Like 1=W, 27=W too? I'd love to know...
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For c# fans This assumes the "z69JZ..." above uses an alpha "O" instead of a numeric "0". Converted from the posted code snippet earlier. (Thanks) class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Test(); }
static string alph = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; static void Test() { string s = "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P"; string p = "6EQUJ5";
int i = 0; while (i < s.Length) { int n = idxof(s[i], alph); int v = idxof(p[i % p.Length], alph); v = (v + n) % 62; Console.Write(alph[v]); i++; } Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("Press any key"); Console.ReadKey(); }
static int idxof(char c, string alphabet){ for (int i = 0; i < alphabet.Length; i++) if (alphabet[i] == c){ return i; } return -1; } }
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There is one problem with online hashing, at least from personal experience, hashing is done on the ASCII, or on the binary. So I'm not sure if using online tools is good.
It was just a search on a string. No hashing. (My local sha256 method uses UTF8 and a {0:x2} string formatter, works fine in .Net)
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second link has a whole load of data at the end of the text too... I need a rabbit hole sniffer.
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i cant replicate ur search,plus how the fuck do i open these .img 7zip tells me: wrong command line
Literally just searched for zJZqlJnDndxoLVEMmVOlPzewEeUCrsIRoahzpenyP on bing.
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