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April 13, 2015, 05:15:27 PM |
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Where publish tracks? In that twitter account?
If I get what you mean, i think it should be on their official website.
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April 13, 2015, 06:54:06 PM Last edit: April 13, 2015, 07:10:07 PM by Aguy21 |
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I got some ideas about the flames.
RGBY 0101
Red and yellow "outside", and green and blue "inside"
. I first started with the outside colors and then XOR'd the "upper" with the "lower" . I then did the same with the inside colors. Afterwards I XOR'd the XOR'd binary strings. Afterwards I divided the strings by 8.
On the short sides I got:
¦ - M p/x - ¦ (Actually ¦ - M ¦ - p/x, but ¦ - M p/x - ¦ felt more right for me)
On one of the longer side I got:
¢ × = p
Mp = multiplayer? Minecraft multiplayer as last time?
------------------------------------------------------ I haven't solved the last side for some reason. I think it's an IP, but the IPs seems to go to Asia. For me those IP sdid did not look as something they would have used. The binary strings after XORing on the remaining side, was:
11011011 01xxx101 01000001 1100001
Converted to ASCII, that's:
Û (unknown) A a
converted to decimals:
219 (unknown) 65 97
xxx can be one of these eight combinations:
111 110 101 100 011 010 001 000
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April 13, 2015, 08:20:36 PM |
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Uploaded the original image to fotoforensics.com, seems OK nothing hidden there. http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=2e63e812aa494a5093758bf8ade882568eb6603c.1040730http://i58.tinypic.com/2j3i7ud.pngDigest: Filename: OSpEZtA.jpg Timestamp: 2015-04-13 17:30:31 GMT File Type: image/jpeg Dimensions: 2160x1658 Color Channels: 3 File Size: 1,040,730 bytes MD5: 185cb257926bb69b44b1a3d23ba87fca SHA1: 2e63e812aa494a5093758bf8ade882568eb6603c SHA256: 9653ff4d7131db16186d004e90e6f1f7231e4b33a408aa962e6803a5ab1f662f
Metadata: File File Type JPEG MIME Type image/jpeg Image Width 2160 Image Height 1658 Encoding Process Baseline DCT, Huffman coding Bits Per Sample 8 Color Components 3 Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2) JFIF JFIF Version 1.01 Resolution Unit inches X Resolution 72 Y Resolution 72 Composite Image Size 2160x1658
I tried various online OCR, most of them returned gibberish except for convertimagetotext.net, I don't know why, but, it recognizes word 'Miagi' somewhere near right-bottom corner, well I can't find it there looking at the image. Are there other objects except for: - branches and leafs
- laying pawn? or a king?
- knight
- some sort of key
- pigeon?
- phoenix or a pavo?
- 7x9 board, 6 blue cells, 5 pink cells
- 4 mystic symbols at the corners, two of them are unique
- flames
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April 13, 2015, 09:20:31 PM |
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Uploaded the original image to fotoforensics.com, seems OK nothing hidden there. http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=2e63e812aa494a5093758bf8ade882568eb6603c.1040730Digest: Filename: OSpEZtA.jpg Timestamp: 2015-04-13 17:30:31 GMT File Type: image/jpeg Dimensions: 2160x1658 Color Channels: 3 File Size: 1,040,730 bytes MD5: 185cb257926bb69b44b1a3d23ba87fca SHA1: 2e63e812aa494a5093758bf8ade882568eb6603c SHA256: 9653ff4d7131db16186d004e90e6f1f7231e4b33a408aa962e6803a5ab1f662f
Metadata: File File Type JPEG MIME Type image/jpeg Image Width 2160 Image Height 1658 Encoding Process Baseline DCT, Huffman coding Bits Per Sample 8 Color Components 3 Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2) JFIF JFIF Version 1.01 Resolution Unit inches X Resolution 72 Y Resolution 72 Composite Image Size 2160x1658
I tried various online OCR, most of them returned gibberish except for convertimagetotext.net, I don't know why, but, it recognizes word 'Miagi' somewhere near right-bottom corner, well I can't find it there looking at the image. Are there other objects except for: - branches and leafs
- laying pawn? or a king?
- knight
- some sort of key
- pigeon?
- phoenix or a pavo?
- 7x9 board, 6 blue cells, 5 pink cells
- 4 mystic symbols at the corners, two of them are unique
- flames
Nice work! Chess figure laying is very likely a queen. Other objects you haven't listed are ribbons on a key.
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April 14, 2015, 12:25:56 AM |
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has anybody tried image to qr??? just a thought
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April 14, 2015, 12:56:14 AM |
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Has anyone tried the Baconian Cipher as per @Coin_Artist's latest hint on Twitter?
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April 14, 2015, 01:06:19 AM |
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Re: Baconian Cipher, here is what I was able to extract. I used the length of the flames, outer colour of the flames, and inner colour of the flames as A/B for both the inner and outer tracks. I also tried starting from each different flame when decoding. I also tried reversing the flames on the right side of the painting since flipping those flames would make the greek keys (meanders) all be the same orientation. My results, where each file is a de-duped list of each possible permutation using each different A/B pair: Let us know if you can find any meaning in the decoded strings!
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April 14, 2015, 04:03:25 PM |
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Take a look at @Coin_Artist's Twitter account - more hints that the solution is steganographic in nature. I think the Baconian Cipher is still our best bet given all the references to Shakespeare throughout this step of the puzzle.
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April 14, 2015, 06:46:28 PM |
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Sorry for being Stupid. but do we only got the picture as a key ? just found this thread.
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April 14, 2015, 08:00:45 PM |
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Sorry for being Stupid. but do we only got the picture as a key ? just found this thread.
Yes, there are no other hints. From what I read, if you follow the thread from the start there are clues along the way. They lead to a different AFAIK board and I did not follow this ARG closely so I dont have any details.
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April 15, 2015, 10:17:06 AM Last edit: April 15, 2015, 11:47:10 AM by swordfish6975 |
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from -> Outer flame track with right side reversed: http://pastebin.com/E1Jx04XKI replaced the optional v/u with v (may have not been a good idea???) using http://www.xarg.org/tools/caesar-cipher/ with guess (it picks key 15) added line breaks where I felt there was some sort of pattern. vfnhwenckkdsnhdw vwgdridlqunteslbdfnhwenkkdsnhdlw vwgdrfdlqunkeslbdvnhwenckdsnhdl vwgdrfidlqunkteslbdvfnhwenckdsnhdlw wgdrfilqunkthwenckksnhdlw vwgdrfidqunktslbdvfnwenckkdnhdlw vgdrfidlqunkteslbdvfnhwenckkdsnhdlw vwdrfidlunktelbdvfnhenckkdsnhdlw vwgdrfidlqunkteslbdvfnhwhdlw vwgrfidlqbdvfnhwnckkdsndlw vwgdfidlqnktesldvfnhweckkdsnhlw vwgdrfidlqukteslbfhoqsnkosrwhkcw vusvdbgvdigoqcuhoqsnaosrwhkcm vusvadbgvdilgoqcufhoqsnaksrwhkc mwoqsnakorwhkc mwusvabgvdilgoqcufhqsnakosrwhkc mwvusvadoqcufhosnakoswhkc mwvsvadgvdilgqcufhoqsnakosrwhkc mwvusvadbvdilgocufhoqnakosrhkc mwvusvadbgvdilgoqcufhoqsnakosrwkc mwvuvadbgdilgoqufhoqsnakosrwhc mwvusadbgvilgoqcakosrwhk mwvusvadbgvdlgoqc rlnfseufdkivhaiwtdrmunetabclholf lnfseifdkivhtiwtdreunethbclholf rnfseiudkivhtawtdremnethaclholf rlfseiufkivhtaiwtdremuethablholf rlnfseiufdivhtaitdremunethabc fseiufdkivhtaiwholf rlnseiufdkvhtaiwdremunthabclolf rlnfeiufdkihtaiwtremunethabclhlf rlnfseiufdkivhtaiwtdthabclhof rlnfsiufdkivtaiwtdemunehabclhol
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April 16, 2015, 05:13:56 AM Last edit: April 16, 2015, 05:36:13 AM by Todamont |
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Well that looks like it contains some patterns at least. I don't really understand your nomenclature scheme, though. What is the [v] or [v/u] thing? Also I was going to suggest trying a bacon cypher with either a base58, base64, or hexadecimal key alphabet. We are generally looking for strings of length 64 in hex or length 51 in base58 starting with 5, or a base58 string of at least length 30 that has an SHA256 hash starting with 00, for a private key format. It could just be a string of words though, I do still suspect there is a steganagraphic key to a message embedded into the image.
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April 16, 2015, 08:22:23 AM |
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I might be grasping at straws here, but if i use RGBY as the bit encoding scheme on the outer flames, starting from top and going clock wize (ignoring flames that don't have blue or green inside them) i get the following when converted from bin to hex: 5C 53 CA C3 CC A5 33 CA 3C 3C CA 5A 33 33 AC 55 5A AA 33 3A A3 3A C3 CC 53 C5 A0
this in ANSI coding is: http://imgur.com/0Zl1BlvAnd when your brain is looking for patterns at 3am you could convince yourself that it reads something along the lines of, "see its easy, use <something>"
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April 16, 2015, 08:51:49 AM |
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I dont get it, someone won or time expired to solve?
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Todamont
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April 16, 2015, 08:38:35 PM |
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I'm thinking the encoding scheme should maybe include big/small as the fifth bit in each flame, maybe inside/outside for the 6th bit. This would give you 2^6 or 64 possible bit-strings for each flame, usable as a base64 alphabet for a Bacon cypher. There needs to be a number of flames related to the number of chars in a private key format, or a decoded string that would represent a clue in readable text, and the latter may be very tough to detect with any sort of cracking algo.
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April 16, 2015, 09:34:57 PM |
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I'm thinking the encoding scheme should maybe include big/small as the fifth bit in each flame, maybe inside/outside for the 6th bit. This would give you 2^6 or 64 possible bit-strings for each flame, usable as a base64 alphabet for a Bacon cypher. There needs to be a number of flames related to the number of chars in a private key format, or a decoded string that would represent a clue in readable text, and the latter may be very tough to detect with any sort of cracking algo.
Several people mentioned it, but it often gets forgotten here: The money is in the 1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd address. That "FLAME" at the beginning certainly is not random, which means that it is generated using some vanity address generator, which again means that the private key which corresponds to this address is totally random, completely uncontrollable by the creator of the puzzle. There's 0 chance some meaningfully, readable text or something like that is brainwallet which is needed to solve the puzzle, there is no brainwallet and the solution we are looking for is either: - private key in WIF format, or some other encoding like QR code - some specific number that obviously pops out and is used as secret exponent That's what makes this much harder, we are not looking for a string, we are looking for a (random) number.
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April 16, 2015, 10:12:54 PM |
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That's what makes this much harder, we are not looking for a string, we are looking for a (random) number.
Given the length and complexity of the previous puzzle, do you think this one would be so simple? You're probably not looking for a private key. You're probably looking for the IP of a minecraft server - or ANYTHING else...
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April 16, 2015, 10:55:38 PM |
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So if a vanity address holds the prize, the private key could be full 64-bit hex, not a mini-key. However it could still have been imported into a wallet and then saved into WIF format. A string may not be a wallet passphrase because that would not generate a vanity address, however it could still be a steganographic key to an embedded message within the image, or just another clue such as an IP address or whatever. Thanks for helping clarify that!
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