To unlock Crops:
shax2 6EQUJ5 = 807779b76e88b7aa9abc84a126822f76c0f24a28b5eb2ea1baa435eb09f5c155
Topic: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 31. (Read 99538 times)
Damn son, what a fluke! hahahaha
To unlock Crops:
shax2 6EQUJ5 = 807779b76e88b7aa9abc84a126822f76c0f24a28b5eb2ea1baa435eb09f5c155
To unlock Crops:
shax2 6EQUJ5 = 807779b76e88b7aa9abc84a126822f76c0f24a28b5eb2ea1baa435eb09f5c155
I think that we should be looking at the "WOW O" portion of things. This little extra chunk of morse code is bugging me... looking at things like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
I, however, think that's not the right direction.
You're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wow_signal.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
I, however, think that's not the right direction.
That reveals Wow.JPG
Wow! Well done.
So you still have not solved this?
I think that we should be looking at the "WOW O" portion of things. This little extra chunk of morse code is bugging me... looking at things like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
I, however, think that's not the right direction.
You're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wow_signal.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
I, however, think that's not the right direction.
That reveals Wow.JPG
I think that we should be looking at the "WOW O" portion of things. This little extra chunk of morse code is bugging me... looking at things like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
THIS IS TOTALLY THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Edited for how I actually felt. No lies. Srsly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
THIS IS TOTALLY THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Edited for how I actually felt. No lies. Srsly.
EDIT: http://purviancepyramid.net/Message.html is an interesting link. Look at the bottom. Binary with S's every 8 chars. Consistant until the very last line. Thoughts?
Isn't that just indicating the delimiters in the original circle? It was 8 red/green and then 1 blue, repeating.
Quote
Also, edits don't count as posting, so:
LAST POST NOW, PROMISE.
LAST POST NOW, PROMISE.
Ha! You can stop posting any time, I believe you!
So I suspect the binary is a rathole. In the first image, we had morse code that ended into gibberish. That could very well be what's going on here. That said, I don't know what to do with the initial morse code in its long form. We've got weird characters. That raises a red flag for me because, aside from executing hash functions, the solutions to date haven't actually involved complex manipulations. (Side thought: Maybe we can ROT the characters out? Perhaps ROT based on the number of turns in the spiral? I tried this already and it didn't seem to get anywhere but I may very well have done something wrong.)
If you'd like to come back around to my diff idea, you get a 16 character letter-only message to play with. Way friendlier! Unfortunately I can't seem to get any anagrams or anything particularly useful out of it, its ROTs, squaring/rotating it, or playing Numberwang: LMEKWMDEDNEVIWAF
Is capitalization some sort of a clue?
FALSE BROKEN PROMISES (M) PAIN BELIEVE (T) GOOD (W) OP DECEPTION CLOSING
Notice the space before the question-mark. Why is it there?
FALSE BROKEN PROMISES (M) PAIN BELIEVE (T) GOOD (W) OP DECEPTION CLOSING
Notice the space before the question-mark. Why is it there?
No, caps are from the source too. The last space and ? are meant to be a "ding" or bell sound which is also in the source. Everything after the first ~94 bytes (I think that's the number) is exactly the same as the source. Think of it like the Space.mp4's extra space that turned into a 7z. The first ~90 bytes of the crop circle are the modded parts.
I'd love to be proven wrong and given another direction.
Also see there: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7647910.
Ah, I remember that now, but I'd try using another host in the future. If you've got to scroll past "download" links and things, your host is doing something very wrong.
EDIT: http://purviancepyramid.net/Message.html is an interesting link. Look at the bottom. Binary with S's every 8 chars. Consistant until the very last line. Thoughts?
EDIT: http://i.imgur.com/69BVtlq.jpg
That's the original crop circle. I'd like to think that the alien head is part of the password. But who knows. Also, edits don't count as posting, so:
LAST POST NOW, PROMISE.
I had told myself I'd not post again until something important happened but I must say: where the fuck do you actually download that file? It just wants me to use its exe (hahaha).
Here's an MD5 hash: e533ea51607916e7dfac6211a939a1fd
Link: https://mega.co.nz/#!soUH1QwB!3cBaiOmXMOItB5lwRhAkPCFTiXlbyr7FJX5VCCuwIZE
Enjoy.
e533ea51607916e7dfac6211a939a1fd - YES, IT IS!Here's an MD5 hash: e533ea51607916e7dfac6211a939a1fd
Link: https://mega.co.nz/#!soUH1QwB!3cBaiOmXMOItB5lwRhAkPCFTiXlbyr7FJX5VCCuwIZE
Enjoy.
Also see there: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7647910.
Considering G (green) seems fairly common, lets just call it 0, R 1 and [] the wildcard. This creates:
Now, straight up converting that into something readable isn't quite as straight forward as one would like. It's not divisible by 8. Selecting a few sections and converting will dump you quotes from
Code:
00000 01110 00000 10 01110 10000 00000 0111 10 0111 0100 10 01110 11100 01111 100 000 100 11001 000 01100010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01000110 01000001 01001100 01010011 01000101 00100000 0110011101101001 01100110 01110100 01110011 00100000 00100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000010 01010010 01001111 01001011 01000101 01001110 00100000 0101 0000 01010010 01001111 01001101 01001001 01010011 01000101 01010011 00101110 01001101 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01010000 01000001 01001001 01001110 00100000 011000010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 00101110 01000*10* 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010110 011001*00101 00101110 0101011 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01000111 01001111 01001111 01000100 00100000 01101111 01110101 011110100 00100000 011110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 001011110 01010111 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110000 0111 0000 01101111 01110011 01100101 00100000 01000100 01000101 01000011 01000101 01010000 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00101110 01000011 01101111 011011110 01100100 011110101 01101001 011110100 00100000 01000011 01001100 01001111 01010011 01001001 01001110 010001111 00101110
Now, straight up converting that into something readable isn't quite as straight forward as one would like. It's not divisible by 8. Selecting a few sections and converting will dump you quotes from
Quote
Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. BELIEVE: There is GOOD out there.We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING ?
Is capitalization some sort of a clue?
(B) FALSE BROKEN PROMISES (M) PAIN BELIEVE (T) GOOD (W) OP DECEPTION CLOSING
Notice the space before the question-mark. Why is it there?
Don't you feel, it's starting to get a bit boring now?
1. People forming small groups, doing it on their own.
2. No more sharing of files and hints.
3. 7z after 7z after 7z.......zzzzzzzzz
And no end in sight......
I enjoyed helping to search for clues, reading pages and pages and doing sha after sha ....... examining every pixel in the images for hours...
and even playing that game.. And now everyone is going underground..
1. People forming small groups, doing it on their own.
2. No more sharing of files and hints.
3. 7z after 7z after 7z.......zzzzzzzzz
And no end in sight......
I enjoyed helping to search for clues, reading pages and pages and doing sha after sha ....... examining every pixel in the images for hours...and even playing that game.. And now everyone is going underground..
I had told myself I'd not post again until something important happened but I must say: where the fuck do you actually download that file? It just wants me to use its exe (hahaha).
Here's an MD5 hash: e533ea51607916e7dfac6211a939a1fd
Link: https://mega.co.nz/#!soUH1QwB!3cBaiOmXMOItB5lwRhAkPCFTiXlbyr7FJX5VCCuwIZE
Enjoy.
Here's an MD5 hash: e533ea51607916e7dfac6211a939a1fd
Link: https://mega.co.nz/#!soUH1QwB!3cBaiOmXMOItB5lwRhAkPCFTiXlbyr7FJX5VCCuwIZE
Enjoy.
Now, straight up converting that into something readable isn't quite as straight forward as one would like. It's not divisible by 8.
I tried sorting them into sections of 8 and it came out with :yÒw È which is an IP for Santa Clara University but nothing worked that i could find from that
Gut says that the 0=0 A=10 a=36 thing is probably right and we just need to find right word or phrase to convert, but again it leaves you with a whole pile of possibilities, like you guys i've tried lots of dif names,dates etc and nothing worked
If ARG-sidekick can't find it i don't think i have much chance lol
Hello, again! Readed all what you are write there, nice finds! So, for me archive again looks like corrupted (offset is where 7z archive signature placed). If you need to crop it, you can run following command:
Code:
dd if=Crops.jpg of=Crops.7z bs=1 skip=279038
Possibly your copy or the one uploaded but my local copy is byte for byte exact. Always good to double check though
Hello, again! Readed all what you are write there, nice finds! So, for me archive again looks like corrupted (offset is where 7z archive signature placed). If you need to crop it, you can run following command:
Code:
dd if=Crops.jpg of=Crops.7z bs=1 skip=279038
Pretty much the same.
Ok, here are some of my thoughts from my 34 open hex files, 13 image variations, 14 text files and 80+ tabs for this single problem. If you've not guessed yet, I'm the weird one.
I mapped out the spiral several times. I started with the assumption that it was morse but quickly dismissed after a couple of rounds of elimination. Below is my list.
Starting from the inside of the spiral. It starts with a space, which I'm assuming is just some padding. But please correct me if you suspect something different.
Considering G (green) seems fairly common, lets just call it 0, R 1 and [] the wildcard. This creates:
Now, straight up converting that into something readable isn't quite as straight forward as one would like. It's not divisible by 8. Selecting a few sections and converting will dump you quotes from
Well, that's not technically true, the first word has been modded by our wonderful overlord, Coinartist.
Now, morse seems like a reasonable way to go, but not quite. After the rest is decoded with binary, why would morse be used? I'm not totally convinced I'm right in dismissing morse for that bit. Prove me wrong?
I've tried double sha256's on everything and anything from that file. My terminal's history will never be the same again.
I must add that I've been awake for several days, I do tend to overthink and I don't have an arg to bounce ideas off while it recharges its pony posting powers. So, that being true, disregard everything I say.
Ok, here are some of my thoughts from my 34 open hex files, 13 image variations, 14 text files and 80+ tabs for this single problem. If you've not guessed yet, I'm the weird one.
I mapped out the spiral several times. I started with the assumption that it was morse but quickly dismissed after a couple of rounds of elimination. Below is my list.
Code:
GGGGG GRRRG GGGGG RG GRRRG RGGGG GGGGG GRRR RG GRRR GRGG RG GRRRG RRRGG GRRRR RGG GGG RGG RRGGR GGG GRRGGGRG GRRGGRGR GRRGGGGR GRRRGGRG GRRGGRGR GRRRGGRG GRRRGGRR GGRGGGGG GRRGRRRR GRRGGRRG GGRGGGGG GRGGGRRG GRGGGGGR GRGGRRGG GRGRGGRR GRGGGRGR GGRGGGGG GRRGGRRRGRRGRGGR GRRGGRRG GRRRGRGG GRRRGGRR GGRGGGGG GGRGGRRG GGRGGGGG GRRRGRGG GRRGRGGG GRRGGRGR GRRGRGGR GRRRGGRG GGRGGGGG GRGGGGRG GRGRGGRG GRGGRRRR GRGGRGRR GRGGGRGR GRGGRRRG GGRGGGGG GRGR GGGG GRGRGGRG GRGGRRRR GRGGRRGR GRGGRGGR GRGRGGRR GRGGGRGR GRGRGGRR GGRGRRRG GRGGRRGR GRRRGRGR GRRGGGRR GRRGRGGG GGRGGGGG GRGRGGGG GRGGGGGR GRGGRGGR GRGGRRRG GGRGGGGG GRRGGGGRG GRRRGRGR GRRRGRGG GGRGGGGG GRRRGGRR GRRRGRGG GRRGRGGR GRRGRRGG GRRGRRGG GGRGGGGG GRRRGRGG GRRGRGGR GRRGRRGR GRRGGRGR GGRGRRRG GRGGG[]RG[] GRGGGRGR GRGGRRGG GRGGRGGR GRGGGRGR GRGRGRRG GRRGGR[]GGRGR GGRGRRRG GRGRGRR GRRGRGGG GRRGGRGR GRRRGGRG GRRGGRGR GGRGGGGG GRRGRGGR GRRRGGRR GGRGGGGG GRGGGRRR GRGGRRRR GRGGRRRR GRGGGRGG GGRGGGGG GRRGRRRR GRRRGRGR GRRRRGRGG GGRGGGGG GRRRRGRGG GRRGRGGG GRRGGRGR GRRRGGRG GRRGGRGR GGRGRRRRG GRGRGRRR GRRGGRGR GGRGGGGG GRRGRRRR GRRRGGGG GRRR GGGG GRRGRRRR GRRRGGRR GRRGGRGR GGRGGGGG GRGGGRGG GRGGGRGR GRGGGGRR GRGGGRGR GRGRGGGG GRGRGRGG GRGGRGGR GRGGRRRR GRGGRRRG GGRGRRRG GRGGGGRR GRRGRRRR GRRGRRRRG GRRGGRGG GRRRRGRGR GRRGRGGR GRRRRGRGG GGRGGGGG GRGGGGRR GRGGRRGG GRGGRRRR GRGRGGRR GRGGRGGR GRGGRRRG GRGGGRRRR GGRGRRRG
Starting from the inside of the spiral. It starts with a space, which I'm assuming is just some padding. But please correct me if you suspect something different.
Considering G (green) seems fairly common, lets just call it 0, R 1 and [] the wildcard. This creates:
Code:
00000 01110 00000 10 01110 10000 00000 0111 10 0111 0100 10 01110 11100 01111 100 000 100 11001 000 01100010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01000110 01000001 01001100 01010011 01000101 00100000 0110011101101001 01100110 01110100 01110011 00100000 00100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000010 01010010 01001111 01001011 01000101 01001110 00100000 0101 0000 01010010 01001111 01001101 01001001 01010011 01000101 01010011 00101110 01001101 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01010000 01000001 01001001 01001110 00100000 011000010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 00101110 01000*10* 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010110 011001*00101 00101110 0101011 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01000111 01001111 01001111 01000100 00100000 01101111 01110101 011110100 00100000 011110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 001011110 01010111 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110000 0111 0000 01101111 01110011 01100101 00100000 01000100 01000101 01000011 01000101 01010000 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00101110 01000011 01101111 011011110 01100100 011110101 01101001 011110100 00100000 01000011 01001100 01001111 01010011 01001001 01001110 010001111 00101110
Now, straight up converting that into something readable isn't quite as straight forward as one would like. It's not divisible by 8. Selecting a few sections and converting will dump you quotes from
Quote
Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. BELIEVE: There is GOOD out there.We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING ?
Well, that's not technically true, the first word has been modded by our wonderful overlord, Coinartist.
Now, morse seems like a reasonable way to go, but not quite. After the rest is decoded with binary, why would morse be used? I'm not totally convinced I'm right in dismissing morse for that bit. Prove me wrong?
I've tried double sha256's on everything and anything from that file. My terminal's history will never be the same again.
I must add that I've been awake for several days, I do tend to overthink and I don't have an arg to bounce ideas off while it recharges its pony posting powers. So, that being true, disregard everything I say.
I'll just leave this here:
0=0A=10BABYA=36
(trimmed)0=0A=10BABYA=36
Code:
0 0
1 1
2 2
[..]
I went down this path, again, not sure if it's the solution. Happily proven wrong though.
I'll just leave this here:
0=0A=10BABYA=36
(trimmed)0=0A=10BABYA=36
Code:
0 0
1 1
2 2
[..]
I went down this path, again, not sure if it's the solution. Happily proven wrong though.
I'll just leave this here:
0=0A=10BABYA=36
0=0A=10BABYA=36
Code:
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9
A 10
B 11
C 12
D 13
E 14
F 15
G 16
H 17
I 18
J 19
K 20
L 21
M 22
N 23
O 24
P 25
Q 26
R 27
S 28
T 29
U 30
V 31
W 32
X 33
Y 34
Z 35
a 36
b 37
c 38
d 39
e 40
f 41
g 42
h 43
i 44
j 45
k 46
l 47
m 48
n 49
o 50
p 51
q 52
r 53
s 54
t 55
u 56
v 57
w 58
x 59
y 60
z 61
Can't help but think you guys might be getting a little too technical. Trying to keep up with you is making my eyes cross. Learning a lot, though.
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