ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over

[mirth23]

I was checking the ASCII representation of the binary bits 7-51 of the SHA 1 and 256 hashes of the hint image. Maybe the original image? Anyway, the other problem with my theory is 45 = 9 * 5, so it doesn't break up evenly into bytes, 7-bit ASCII, hex nibbles, or really anything useful.

I don't think that would work from a reverse engineering perspective... in order to construct the puzzle, she'd have to change the puzzle, then the hashes would be wrong.

I'm personally leaning towards that thing in the middle being the cheshire cat, but I'm also a big Alice in Wonderland geek, so that might be part of it.

It is surprisingly challenging to extract clearer image data out of that picture. As soon as you desaturate it everything goes away, if you bump up the contrast it goes crazy, etc. The letters are relatively simple.

[micaman]

Damn you guys are good!
Please somebody put me up-to-date... you opened a .7z, got a pic and are trying to open another .7z?

That's correct. The .7z can be downloaded from: bit .ly/1juqeCj
(remove the space, this forum nukes the address otherwise)

Then the password for the .7z is the public bitcoin address.

Thank you very much!  



As xELx said, first movie got out 26/7/1951. Got a peak at the movie at minute 7, and Alice realises she can walk upside down, i don't know if it's just a coincidence...
http://youtu.be/sdWYzMgpGPA?t=6m50s

[pr0d1gy]

Damn you guys are good!
Please somebody put me up-to-date... you opened a .7z, got a pic and are trying to open another .7z?

That's correct. The .7z can be downloaded from: bit .ly/1juqeCj
(remove the space, this forum nukes the address otherwise)

Then the password for the .7z is the public bitcoin address.

Thank you very much!  



As xELx said, first movie got out 26/7/1951. Got a peak at the movie at minute 7, and Alice realises she can walk upside down, i don't know if it's just a coincidence...
http://youtu.be/sdWYzMgpGPA?t=6m50s

This video is not available in your country.
Sorry about that.


lol

[timewave0]

I don't think that would work from a reverse engineering perspective... in order to construct the puzzle, she'd have to change the puzzle, then the hashes would be wrong.

You're right.

[micaman]

Damn you guys are good!
Please somebody put me up-to-date... you opened a .7z, got a pic and are trying to open another .7z?

That's correct. The .7z can be downloaded from: bit .ly/1juqeCj
(remove the space, this forum nukes the address otherwise)

Then the password for the .7z is the public bitcoin address.

Thank you very much!  



As xELx said, first movie got out 26/7/1951. Got a peak at the movie at minute 7, and Alice realises she can walk upside down, i don't know if it's just a coincidence...
http://youtu.be/sdWYzMgpGPA?t=6m50s

This video is not available in your country.
Sorry about that.


lol

Try this one, same part: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi604543513/

[Gatekeeper]

lol so frustrating, i've tried so many dif words, with and without spaces, plain text and converted into sha256, with no joy

not sure where to go with the Alice in Wonderland thing, yet 7:51 and July 1951 do seem to be a strange coincidence.

I get the feeling like we need to get a word or phrase and convert it to sha256 but haven't been able to find anything, but then why Bit Sha and not just sha?  fried brain here.

[xELx]

More Alice in Wonderland stuff:

BitSha can spell habits which can relate quite a bit to Alice in Wonderland.

Edit: ie drug use

[Mister S]

I get the feeling like we need to get a word or phrase and convert it to sha256 but haven't been able to find anything, but then why Bit Sha and not just sha?  fried brain here.

Sha-256 is 512 bits.
Sha we use is 256
Bit 512?
Sha 256?

I actually think this might be a 3d modelling texture map

[micaman]

I get the feeling like we need to get a word or phrase and convert it to sha256 but haven't been able to find anything, but then why Bit Sha and not just sha?  fried brain here.

I have the same feeling and the same doubt.

Tried a couple of SHA-1 and SHA-256 on the zip but no luck.
Found someone on deviantART called "bitsha", but didn't see anything related to AIW or the Cheshire Cat... She wrote a comment someday at 7:51 but nothing to do with this, seems just an innocent girl with the "wrong" nickname.

I'm done for today, keep going and good luck.  

[mirth23]

7:51 in the Disney version is when Alice is talking to the doorknob, telling it that she's looking for a white rabbit. I'm dubious about that direction since it's hard to pin down exact times in films, especially with so many different releaes of the same film out there. That said, the doorknob does tell her she needs to get bigger to reach a key... riffing off of this even further, the password to the file is not "eat me" or "drink me", nor is it the SHA-1 or SHA256 of either of those phrases, nor is it 7-51 characters or 7-51 bits of those hashes.

Hare-brained idea: the diagram is actually showing some stonehenge-like megaliths that cast shadows, and 7:51 is the time... 7:51 is when the sun sets in Tel Aviv today! Ummm... yeah.

I'm still looking for the RIGHT rabbit hole. I am on board with the "get the SHA of something, then it's the password for the file" plan, but I'm not sure what that something is.

the not particularly interesting google results for bitsha:
- a girl on deviantart
- an anagram of "habits"
- a south african miner who is suing his mine over lung disease (worth a read for non-puzzle reasons)
- a go package for SHA224/256: http://godoc.org/github.com/ThePiachu/Split-Vanity-Miner-Golang/src/pkg/BitSHA

I get the feeling like we need to get a word or phrase and convert it to sha256 but haven't been able to find anything, but then why Bit Sha and not just sha?  fried brain here.

I was hoping that "Bit" referred to the bitcoin public address, but that didn't work out.

[Mister S]

I have my son following up on the texture map notion in Blender right now, Will keep you updated, but already a few renders look like they might have readable, legible symbols if added to the right frame.

[etamine]

Hey guys, new here and still trying to play catch-up. I've read through the thread and thought I'd try to contribute some. Not really sure if it's still relevant (rumored onion-skin map?) but here's the fixed version of the image that I came up with...


https://i.imgur.com/dGQiUeP.jpg

[mirth23]

Hey guys, new here and still trying to play catch-up. I've read through the thread and thought I'd try to contribute some. Not really sure if it's still relevant (rumored onion-skin map?) but here's the fixed version of the image that I came up with...

Oo, nice work, that looks much better than anything I've been able to extract. What was the general process you were following to get that?

The blue channel is driving me a little crazy. I can make it "pop" like a sterogram but there doesn't appear to be any data in it. I can't get the other channels to pop the same way, nor can I get them to really come out in combination. Maybe it just has something to do with the noise algorithm.

[etamine]

Ah, tanks.

My settings were as follows:

Red:    +65
Green: +142
Blue:   -200
Monochrome: True

I didn't really spend much time on it (taking break from trying hashes) and I don't really know what I'm doing so hopefully you can pull another image out of there 

[moinen]

Here's how to get rid of black and white noise and focus only on the minor color differences:

https://i.imgur.com/ZD3RgCo.jpg

Convert to lab color, examine channel a or b, whichever has the most detail, and squeeze the most contrast you can get.

I will keep looking, but I don't think there is more information in this image at this point. The two pieces of text and the face.

[mirth23]

I went to x=7 z=51 on the surface of the Minecraft server to see if the terrain there looked like the image... it doesn't.

moinen / etamine -- thanks!

[jc01480]

Does 7 Bit 51 Sha mean anything?

[etamine]

Does 7 Bit 51 Sha mean anything?

No, but I heard that 7 ate 9.

[jc01480]

Does 7 Bit 51 Sha mean anything?

No, but I heard that 7 ate 9.

That's not what she said.

[jc01480]

In original image, top row from left to right, the seventh box happens to be a number 7.  I'm guessing everything to 51 more places hashed?  I'm reaching here.