ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 17.

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Quote from: protokol on July 06, 2014, 10:26:01 AM

Yeah this is doing my head in, been trying a lot of character shift stuff with no luck...

I noticed that there are the same number of letters in "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P" as there are numbers in the downward column in Wow.jpg (41 characters).

There's 51 characters in the top string.

protokol

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Yeah this is doing my head in, been trying a lot of character shift stuff with no luck...

I noticed that there are the same number of letters in "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P" as there are numbers in the downward column in Wow.jpg (41 characters). So I've been shifting the letters up/down by the corresponding number in the downward column, as per "0=0 A=10 BABYA=36".

eg, the first one I tried was a downshift (the final countdown?), so "z" shifts down 2 characters and becomes "1", J shifts down 7 chars and becomes "Q" etc:

Code:

z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P (original)
z--JZqlJn---D-ndx-oLVEMmVOlP-zewEeUCrSI-Roahzpeny-P (characters 0-9 removed)
2--791357---9-135-7913579135-7913579135-791357902-4 (corresponding numbers in downward column)

169QiroOu862M1og27vuWHRtePoU17nxHjbLsVN7Yxbk3wnn17T (letters shifted downwards by corresponding number, original characters 0-9 replaced)

I couldn't get anywhere with this, tried various hashing and private key generation tools. I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I like how this approach incorporates all 3 clues (the 0=0/A=10/a=36 code, plus the header and the column from Wow.jpg).

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I'm taking a few hours away from this and hope to help progress when I come back with fresh eyes. I think that we know what the key is and that we just need to understand how to read it.

arg

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Quote from: Remember remember the 5th of November on July 05, 2014, 10:30:11 PM

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.

In this case the OP used ASCII mode for a all hashes, it messed me up for ages until I realised what was going on. I've pretty much given up at this point. There's no fun in writing endless permutations of python scripts that shuffle letters around, hashes them, tries to decode them as private keys, and fails time and time again. Whatever the puzzle is designed to do is nothing that I can come up with, nor my partner, nor anybody else it seems.

Quote from: LtPaxIV on July 05, 2014, 06:01:56 PM

@shorena sieht aus als ob du deutsch kannst,ich kann nicht immer genau das was ich meine in english ausdrücken,wär cool wenn man sich mal austauschen könnt und dann das ganze hier in english posted

https://i.imgur.com/h1vUrNt.jpg

Sorry, had to

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Quote from: Kprawn on July 06, 2014, 03:58:09 AM

Quote from: Kangaderoo on July 05, 2014, 05:01:07 PM

Quote from: dserrano5 on July 05, 2014, 04:53:45 PM

Quote from: Kangaderoo on July 05, 2014, 04:47:07 PM

Quote from: Kprawn on July 05, 2014, 04:41:23 PM

What is up with the "Long" "Lat" "Deg" in that picture?

You will need to know astronomy for this.

No. Astronomy deals with Right ascension/declination, not with latitude/longitude. Those would be earthly coordinates.

http://www.bigear.org/Wow30th/wow30th.htm

It definitely mentioned galactic lat and long. all columns are explained here....
Thou shall check the source on all pages, and the source of clue's as well.... Grin

(like I'm still trying to figure out the origins that leads to the ceasar shift of 100......)

Then I guess you have looked into where those coordinates points to into space? {Mayor constellations? or planets?}

People who are into Astronomy also use coordinates to point to objects in space with their telescopes. {Proof of work, if they find something}

One of my friends has a program, that simulates that, I will ask him tomorrow.

Wiki: The location of the signal in the constellation Sagittarius, near the Chi Sagittarii star group.
This region of the sky lies in the constellation Sagittarius, roughly 2.5 degrees south of the fifth-magnitude star group Chi Sagittarii, and about 3.5 degrees south of the plane of the ecliptic. Tau Sagittarii is the closest easily visible star.

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Quote from: Kangaderoo on July 05, 2014, 05:01:07 PM

Quote from: dserrano5 on July 05, 2014, 04:53:45 PM

Quote from: Kangaderoo on July 05, 2014, 04:47:07 PM

Quote from: Kprawn on July 05, 2014, 04:41:23 PM

What is up with the "Long" "Lat" "Deg" in that picture?

You will need to know astronomy for this.

No. Astronomy deals with Right ascension/declination, not with latitude/longitude. Those would be earthly coordinates.

http://www.bigear.org/Wow30th/wow30th.htm

It definitely mentioned galactic lat and long. all columns are explained here....
Thou shall check the source on all pages, and the source of clue's as well.... Grin

(like I'm still trying to figure out the origins that leads to the ceasar shift of 100......)

Then I guess you have looked into where those coordinates points to into space? {Mayor constellations? or planets?}

People who are into Astronomy also use coordinates to point to objects in space with their telescopes. {Proof of work, if they find something}

One of my friends has a program, that simulates that, I will ask him tomorrow.

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Nope..

You guys are going to make me have more kittens, aren't you? Wait long enough and the litter I just had will be grown with Facebook accounts and everything. Seriously, I was pondering over this puzzle at work and came to the conclusion that a lot of you have. Something with the crops picture is supposed to be included in or added to the wow picture. As most, I think it is something obvious we are all missing (clearly). It is Saturday night (here anyway) and you are all out enjoying the evening or sleeping. Well deserved. I've played with a few concatenation a and didn't come up with anything. I did learn how to import a private key into Coinbase. Tried a bunch and triggered some alarms with them I think.

I'll review some stuff and see if I can't help. But I warn you know, the winner, whoever it be, gets the prize and a mother-trucking littler of kittens! Non negotiable! And if this drags out you'll get two! Dammit!

But seriously, let's get this thing finished.

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Quote from: Remember remember the 5th of November on July 05, 2014, 10:30:11 PM

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)

Remember remember the 5th of November

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Reverse engineer from time to time

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.

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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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lol ok,even bing is fucked up.im in germany and bing didnt find any.i changed my country to united states and "bing" i got same findings as u did.(but the whole each country gets own searches is another story)

and how to open the files? i cant mount em 7zip doesnt like em either

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Quote from: LtPaxIV on July 05, 2014, 10:16:26 PM

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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Quote from: Izerian on July 05, 2014, 09:46:10 PM

Odd coincidence I'm sure. Since we're talking about signals from space and all.

Starting with the string "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P"

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No Numeric characters: "[^.0-9]"
zJZqlJnDndxoLVEMmVOlPzewEeUCrsIRoahzpenyP
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No Alpha characters: "[0-9]"
6986217177
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OP said to use Google, but they're evil so I tried Bing (lol)... straight up search (no quotes) on the non-numeric string yields:

http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgn-v-rdrs-5-midr-c1-v1.0/mg_0009/f00n065/ff32.img~
and
http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgn-v-rdrs-5-dim-v1.0/mg_1215/fl18s342/fl15s341.img

I haven't looked at the top 'img~' link, glanced at the link following it and it's a bunch of text about the space time continuum for all I know at this point. At risk of embarrassing myself for even posting this, I'm going to sign out and participate in my life for the rest of the evening. Someone please find something!

EDIT: Someone please find something other than this Wink

i cant replicate ur search,plus how the fuck do i open these .img 7zip tells me: wrong command line

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Quote from: itod on July 05, 2014, 09:21:19 PM

Quote from: ooxtcoo on July 05, 2014, 09:01:46 PM

1.) using this data: z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

2.) covert to digits using my tool:
6169193552471949862131493959750213114224831047251614058144030125354187275036436 151404960725

It looks like you've used some other rules of conversion. For instance, starting from the beginning, how did you convert 'z' to '61'?

because in upper case and lower case...
should i convert all lower case to upper case and convert all the same?

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Odd coincidence I'm sure. Since we're talking about signals from space and all.

Starting with the string "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P"

---------------
No Numeric characters: "[^.0-9]"
zJZqlJnDndxoLVEMmVOlPzewEeUCrsIRoahzpenyP
---------------
No Alpha characters: "[0-9]"
6986217177
---------------

OP said to use Google, but they're evil so I tried Bing (lol)... straight up search (no quotes) on the non-numeric string yields:

http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgn-v-rdrs-5-midr-c1-v1.0/mg_0009/f00n065/ff32.img~
and
http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgn-v-rdrs-5-dim-v1.0/mg_1215/fl18s342/fl15s341.img

I haven't looked at the top 'img~' link, glanced at the link following it and it's a bunch of text about the space time continuum for all I know at this point. At risk of embarrassing myself for even posting this, I'm going to sign out and participate in my life for the rest of the evening. Someone please find something!

EDIT: Someone please find something other than this Wink

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Quote from: ooxtcoo on July 05, 2014, 09:01:46 PM

1.) using this data: z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

2.) covert to digits using my tool:
6169193552471949862131493959750213114224831047251614058144030125354187275036436 151404960725

It looks like you've used some other rules of conversion. For instance, starting from the beginning, how did you convert 'z' to '61'?

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Quote from: itod on July 05, 2014, 07:41:20 PM

Quote from: cryptozim on July 05, 2014, 12:26:32 PM

I'm still not quite sure what to use it on, but I'm pretty sure the 0=0A=10BABYA=36 is a character mapping.
0=0
A=10
BabyA=36. Morse code has no lowercase, so she called the lowercase 'a' BabyA.

This also jives with the background story for Wow!.jpg. The numbers/letters are intensities:

Quote from: from Wikipedia

The circled alphanumeric code 6EQUJ5 describes the intensity variation of the signal. A space denotes an intensity between 0 and 1, the numbers 1 to 9 denote the correspondingly numbered intensities (from 1.0 to 10.0), and intensities of 10.0 and above are denoted by a letter ('A' corresponds to intensities between 10.0 and 11.0, 'B' to 11.0 to 12.0, etc.). The value 'U' (an intensity between 30.0 and 31.0) was the highest detected by the radio telescope; on a linear scale it was over 30 times louder than normal deep space.

I'm getting obsessed with this above. We haven't used this clue anywhere, and it may be saying to us:
"Use some string and replace
0 with 0
A with 10
a with 36
and then use it as a passphrase to get the key."
Problem is I don't get what "replace 0 with 0" can mean? What's the point of replacing something with itself?

i wrote for you a tool which do this for you: http://jau.cc/bitcoin/ARGConverter.rar

but i tryed already many many different things....

the very first one which i tested was:

1.) using this data: z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

2.) covert to digits using my tool:
6169193552471949862131493959750213114224831047251614058144030125354187275036436 151404960725

3.) sha256(sha256(digits)=08a5fdd4bf90c5932b809e9b7c6ceacea7ee410c9b375da924e39b6a36f66d7d

3.)hex to B58Check: 5Ht6Va2Rot3XXLx88ZV7FrsQEHAyRCxf7jP4e5pYsbYBbeooBer
(B58Check because the result at the end "Bbeoober" looked somehow funny...

but i got this adress bitcoin: 1LM3yKQu7TAzZzS1KE5y1D24sWsXJchKs1

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There is my long shot results: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2a883aee11c1c2ea85ef. Can do this in another ways but this looks wrong. Not understand, must we calculate hash of something with this 51 characters line or work with they as is.

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Quote from: xELx on July 05, 2014, 07:46:33 PM

Quote from: itod on July 05, 2014, 07:41:20 PM

I'm getting obsessed with this above. We haven't used this clue anywhere, and it may be saying to us:
"Use some string and replace
0 with 0
A with 10
a with 36
and then use it as a passphrase to get the key."
Problem is I don't get what "replace 0 with 0" can mean? What's the point of replacing something with itself?

0=0 is just saying that numbers are equal to themselves and wouldn't be converted to anything.

Thats it! We should take a string, leave the numbers unchanged, turn all uppercase letters to 10, and all lowercase letters to 36. Question is - which string? I've tried the 'z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P' from wow.jpg and got 3669101036361036862101363636736101010103610103610136363610361010363610710363636 3636363636710, which doesn't work. Any idea which string has numbers, lowercase and uppercase letters?

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Guys, is it 6657 or 6675 on the Wow that are marked?

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