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shorena

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Quote from: Prospero on July 05, 2014, 02:58:11 PM

Quote from: xELx on July 05, 2014, 02:39:49 PM

New update from OP.

Besides removing the double hash hint? What was the new update?

The picture with neo beeing asked "what truth?"

https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxw3aeRJ4J1r34xmno4_250.gif

Quote from: hoba on July 05, 2014, 02:56:49 PM

Quote from: mirth23 on July 05, 2014, 02:47:29 PM

the doge pic was a joke, but there was a real dogecoin symbol in the Crops.jpg morse code.

The last morse code after WOW is ..--. ---, while --- is probably simply accidently a valid morse character and ..--. is not a valid character at all.

I cant find the original for "there was a real dogecoin symbol in the crops.jpg" so I quote this.

How can a dogecoin symbol be in a morsecode? What morsecode table did you use? Huh

Quote from: roert on July 05, 2014, 03:01:00 PM

OK, it's a bitcoin related puzzle.

So far, we needed mostly sha256. A privat-key is a 256bit number. We have a picture with MANY "1" and "blank". My idea: Try to convert the first/last/whatever 256 "bit" of this 2dimensional lndx and 7oLVE it ...

Do you know what I mean? Has anybody did that?

I understand you, but AFAIK the data was not edited by OP. This would assume that she generated a private key off of the Wow! signal data. I read that argument somewhere. Not sure, just give it a try, I dont think it will help us because one of the hints was "crops + wow" so IMHO we still need to use the base62code. tl;dr I agree with mirth your approach would not use that code.

Quote from: mirth23 on July 05, 2014, 02:47:29 PM

edit: I will say that I will be very, very surprised if the final answer doesn't involve the use of the base62 character map that's described in the Crops.jpg morse... no clue why it would be there otherwise.

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Quote from: xELx on July 05, 2014, 02:39:49 PM

New update from OP.

Besides removing the double hash hint? What was the new update?

arg

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Quote from: mirth23 on July 05, 2014, 02:54:44 PM

I guess I am back on the thought that if the 51 char string is not something we can shift into a private key, then it must be some kind of 37337 clue and we're looking for a spoon in a haystack with bitshifts and the like.

We have only 41 characters on the right, and 51 characters above. I can't make heads nor tails of what the aim is even meant to be. Even they were the same length I would be slightly happy, but as it is I can do nothing with them. Not even a clue what is going on in the OPs mind with this one.

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Quote from: mirth23 on July 05, 2014, 02:47:29 PM

the doge pic was a joke, but there was a real dogecoin symbol in the Crops.jpg morse code.

The last morse code after WOW is ..--. ---, while --- is probably simply accidently a valid morse character and ..--. is not a valid character at all.

Edit: ok, i was wrong, here you can find the code for Dogecoin symbol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

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Quote from: arg on July 05, 2014, 02:49:46 PM

Quote from: mirth23 on July 05, 2014, 02:47:29 PM

it meant that most shifts were invalid due to invalid base58 characters but I did get a few valid private keys

Huh? You shouldn't have been able to do that, a random set of characters beginning with the right byte has a shockingly small chance of being a private key. It's like one in 2^32 due to the checksum.

ahem, allow me to restate: i got some apparently fine looking keys in proper base58 form that the python bitcoin libs happily transformed into private keys and public addresses, but a real bitcoin wallet failed to load properly.

Quote from: mirth23 on July 05, 2014, 02:47:29 PM

no clue why it would be there otherwise.

Ditto the numbers "outlined" on the right hand side of the image.

yeah, definitely.

I guess I am back on the thought that if the 51 char string is not something we can shift into a private key, then it must be some kind of 37337 clue and we're looking for a spoon in a haystack with bitshifts and the like.

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Quote from: xELx on July 05, 2014, 02:39:49 PM

Quote from: ytcoinartist on June 22, 2014, 05:25:48 PM

Quote from: S4VV4S on July 05, 2014, 03:26:27 AM

However, I don't expect anything more at this point.
She has been spoonfeeding us since the begining to the point where she is not challenging us enough.

Sorry but it's the truth.

New update from OP.

I am about to search for my old x-files books here.... tunguska, crop circles, area 51, wow signal

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Quote from: mirth23 on July 05, 2014, 02:47:29 PM

it meant that most shifts were invalid due to invalid base58 characters but I did get a few valid private keys

Huh? You shouldn't have been able to do that, a random set of characters beginning with the right byte has a shockingly small chance of being a private key. It's like one in 2^32 due to the checksum.

Quote from: mirth23 on July 05, 2014, 02:47:29 PM

no clue why it would be there otherwise.

Ditto the numbers "outlined" on the right hand side of the image.

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Quote from: rgm108 on July 05, 2014, 12:24:36 PM

@ pongo

The Doge pic was a joke m8.

the doge pic was a joke, but there was a real dogecoin symbol in the Crops.jpg morse code.

I just got back from doing a lot of rotational cyphering involving the time codes (as single and as double digits), probably replicating whatever arg did yesterday. using the base 62 alphabet hinted in Crops.jpg, it meant that most shifts were invalid due to invalid base58 characters but I did get a few valid private keys, none of which were the correct wallet. Think I'll back away from the keys for a bit, I've been too close to this for the last couple days and probably can't see the forest for the trees.

edit: I will say that I will be very, very surprised if the final answer doesn't involve the use of the base62 character map that's described in the Crops.jpg morse... no clue why it would be there otherwise.

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I expected as much. She thinks it's bleeding obvious.

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Quote from: ytcoinartist on June 22, 2014, 05:25:48 PM

Quote from: S4VV4S on July 05, 2014, 03:26:27 AM

However, I don't expect anything more at this point.
She has been spoonfeeding us since the begining to the point where she is not challenging us enough.

Sorry but it's the truth.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxw3aeRJ4J1r34xmno4_250.gif

New update from OP.

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arg, I apologize for any insinuating comments i posted.

you and the rest of the team here are doing great.

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Quote from: itod on July 05, 2014, 01:08:47 PM

Notice that we have 'WRITTEN VERTICALLY' added to the image

That's from the original image, the OP just rewrote it in the same font as the key.

It's too short to use as a mask against the top key in any sane way. Shifting every character by the number in the timestamp does nothing. I too, did all of this yesterday in endless permutations. We're missing something.

https://i.imgur.com/rH3DX2I.gif

Hey OP, bout those hints?

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Quote from: arg on July 05, 2014, 12:26:27 PM

My pet theory is that the line on the right hand side of Wow.jpeg is somehow the answer, and the 51 character is just a red herring somehow. If it was just a transformation on the "private key" what was the point of the hidden swirls and lines on the image?

I've been saying this since yesterday. Vertical number sequence is:

Code:

27913579135791357913579135791357913579024

Notice that we have 'WRITTEN VERTICALLY' added to the image, although it is for 'TWO DIGITS'.

In the number sequence above series '13579' is repeated 7x, with '279' before and '024' after. I could not make anything out of it, but it's clearly underlined with blue stroke from image metadata.

shorena

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Quote from: S4VV4S on July 05, 2014, 11:10:20 AM

-snip-
Please explain, because I saw a couple of versions of the code translations and I will like to try myself.
Thank you

Found my notes Wink

Code:

grn = 1
red = 0
oth = brk

11111 
10001 
11111 
01 
10001 
01111 
11111 
1000 
01 
1000 
1011 
01 
10001 
00011 
10000 
011 
111 
011 
00110
111
8-bit code afterwards

in morse

grn = -
red = .
----- 
-...- 
----- 
.- 
-...- 
.---- 
----- 
-... 
.- 
-... 
-.-- 
.- 
-...- 
...-- 
-.... 
.-- 
--- 
.-- 
..--.
---

->
0=0A=10BABYA=36WOW?O

arg

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Quote from: Mitchell on July 05, 2014, 12:49:12 PM

Quote from: arg on July 05, 2014, 12:46:06 PM

Quote from: hoba on July 05, 2014, 12:44:48 PM

Quote from: arg on July 05, 2014, 12:26:27 PM

The solution probably needs to involve a dual sha256 too. That hint is still on the front post.

Hint is gone now.

Well that nukes that theory then. Huh

Not really. OP has been placing and removing hints for a while. The hints themselves are valid.

Right, she removes them once they've been mentioned. So it must involve a double sha256 hash somehow, and the 51 character string is a red herring. arg-sidekick thinks that's related to the bit in Crops.jpg about deception.

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Quote from: Mitchell on July 05, 2014, 12:49:12 PM

Quote from: arg on July 05, 2014, 12:46:06 PM

Quote from: hoba on July 05, 2014, 12:44:48 PM

Quote from: arg on July 05, 2014, 12:26:27 PM

The solution probably needs to involve a dual sha256 too. That hint is still on the front post.

Hint is gone now.

Well that nukes that theory then. Huh

Not really. OP has been placing and removing hints for a while. The hints themselves are valid.

I wouldn't think that "The Final Countdown" is a hint. Seems more like hyping that it's the end. The only thing that has really been revealed is that we have to use the Crops picture with the Wow one.

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