I have a little puzzle for you folks!

[armedmilitia]

I also posted this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/40slwf/i_have_a_little_puzzle_for_you_folks/

Pubkey: 1LDaBuUgUgNGDuensc96vXAtvvb8iijhoJ
It should contain 0.04 BTC. If you get the private key feel free to keep it all or leave it for the next person. Your call.

Riddle:

Code:

Check out my pad, bro! I didn't buy it, I wrote it!
iuuqt://j.jnhvs.dpn/7te5sTX.qoh

   

Good luck!

[1714688771]

1714688771

[1714688771]

1714688771

[1714688771]

1714688771

[mexxer-2]

Hmm I feel its something to do with rearranging the letters in the url, might be wrong though
Edit: Can't find a g 

[armedmilitia]

Hmm I feel its something to do with rearranging the letters in the url.

George Clooney says NO!

[Mr Felt]

its an imgur post

[Nobitcoin]

The image has been removed is that the answer ?

[armedmilitia]

Looks like someone swept the address. Too bad they didn't post to here or reddit!
Well, finders keepers.

The imgur link is a Caeser shifted (hence Clooney in the film Hail Caesar!), which points to this QR code:


The QR code scans to

Code:

x³˜ÅÓd¹šÊŠÏÀ—»Ã°tRÈź—h¬X¯Ñ›Þ‰ªsÒÚêgšÎ`Rž–¿Ûâ¿Îh¹¬u

Some QR readers don't like displaying some of those characters because they aren't regular numbers, letters, or symbols. This is the encrypted private key--it is encrypted with One Time Pad (OTP) encryption. Hence the "pad" references.

This is impossible to break if the cipher key is randomly generated and kept a secret, but I provided you the key:

Code:

Check out my pad, bro! I didn't buy it, I wrote it!

You can quickly grab the ascii values of all these characters by looking here: http://asciivalue.com/index.php

Then all you have to do is subtract the ascii values from each other.

I'll do the first three characters here in detail:

Code:

Cipher  ASCII Value  Key  ASCII Value  Value of (Cipher-Key)  Plaintext (Decrypted)
x       120          C    067          053                    5
³       179          h    104          075                    K
˜       152          e    101          051                    3

The full process:

Code:

CIPHERTEXT: x³˜ÅÓd¹šÊŠÏÀ—»Ã°tRÈź—h¬X¯Ñ›Þ‰ªsÒÚêgšÎ`Rž–¿Ûâ¿Îh¹¬u
KEY:        Check out my pad, bro! I didn't buy it, I wrote it!
PLAINTEXT:  5K3bhDJ3VjbGwKbLH2fSKvHc8Kh7pb6SpeqG1Z42UvHisKiHP8T

And that's how you do it!

I wrote a tool in c++ that does OTP encryption, and it will spit out a ciphertext, decrypt, generate pads, take custom pads, etc: It took a lot less time to set up the challenge than to write this post.

[Nobitcoin]

Looks like someone swept the address. Too bad they didn't post to here or reddit!
Well, finders keepers.

The imgur link is a Caeser shifted (hence Clooney in the film Hail Caesar!), which points to this QR code:


The QR code scans to

Code:

x³˜ÅÓd¹šÊŠÏÀ—»Ã°tRÈź—h¬X¯Ñ›Þ‰ªsÒÚêgšÎ`Rž–¿Ûâ¿Îh¹¬u

Some QR readers don't like displaying some of those characters because they aren't regular numbers, letters, or symbols. This is the encrypted private key--it is encrypted with One Time Pad (OTP) encryption. Hence the "pad" references.

This is impossible to break if the cipher key is randomly generated and kept a secret, but I provided you the key:

Code:

Check out my pad, bro! I didn't buy it, I wrote it!

You can quickly grab the ascii values of all these characters by looking here: http://asciivalue.com/index.php

Then all you have to do is subtract the ascii values from each other.

I'll do the first three characters here in detail:

Code:

Cipher  ASCII Value  Key  ASCII Value  Value of (Cipher-Key)  Plaintext (Decrypted)
x       120          C    067          053                    5
³       179          h    104          075                    K
˜       152          e    101          051                    3

The full process:

Code:

CIPHERTEXT: x³˜ÅÓd¹šÊŠÏÀ—»Ã°tRÈź—h¬X¯Ñ›Þ‰ªsÒÚêgšÎ`Rž–¿Ûâ¿Îh¹¬u
KEY:        Check out my pad, bro! I didn't buy it, I wrote it!
PLAINTEXT:  5K3bhDJ3VjbGwKbLH2fSKvHc8Kh7pb6SpeqG1Z42UvHisKiHP8T

And that's how you do it!

I wrote a tool in c++ that does OTP encryption, and it will spit out a ciphertext, decrypt, generate pads, take custom pads, etc: It took a lot less time to set up the challenge than to write this post.

I wouldn't have a chance in hell even if I got the picture but nice to know the answer