Solve a riddle, guess a 4 char password and add 10 BTC to your xmas... SOLVED!! - page 2.

K1773R

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Quote from: BkkCoins on December 28, 2012, 04:39:43 AM

Damn It. Just found the key and it had been swept already!

Must have been just seconds....

5Hq96RktdCU3BL1U4b7Wxse2wWCiSRXierJdS68RE1Mf8BXphjg

I wonder if I could issue another spend with higher fees and have it go to me.... ha ha.
It's still unconfirmed.

yea was faster, as promised il distribute the 10BTC to all who helped.

K1773R

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

the privkey got cracked

K1773R
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ3VurAAoJEG9KjkBCBMba/uUH/28vQfVQV/Y+3Cb5q0Bfd1Od
FIUpVbGebxq2OH+lrNI1QJitKRWxCe7iUrk4ORJybqb7XDkclDYBrDyvZ3n+A74p
m2v2ExsupVNFnIsv3HPvHezab4cXhmYDV2PTyM0/yUiGsliqqFAqDqi7tdVA3eDB
dmjpsGOe8GAOH2Eoh4p2cwu7geXmgOs3gRgCN9MOp2S+waZfeghX7Y3+pN2JRcPX
/nIO3gZuLC/oeIiahmxW9Efq8La8Ffw19m5I9zDdRf7vQ8TgMgjZ6jIFJ0GLuewR
eGmZ/M5UOfrphkS67uljBAHI9bGMCfucxeeLH8ovYTF8YYeKhRzUTNgCgQ3hezg=
=qkYa
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

CIYAM

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Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer

I really like to thank all that made it through this marathon!

I was rather surprised that my little riddle/puzzle turned out to be *so* hard for you all (guess it shows just how differently people think - especially old-timer's like myself).

BkkCoins

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firstbits:1MinerQ

Damn It. Just found the key and it had been swept already!

Must have been just seconds....

5Hq96RktdCU3BL1U4b7Wxse2wWCiSRXierJdS68RE1Mf8BXphjg

I wonder if I could issue another spend with higher fees and have it go to me.... ha ha.
It's still unconfirmed.

BkkCoins

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firstbits:1MinerQ

Quote from: CIYAM on December 28, 2012, 04:27:32 AM

Come on guys - let's finish it up:

Code:

1p+1p=2xp(at least)

I've been scanning on patterns just like that for a while now... nothing yet.
I mean I've even got everything ready so if I get the pwd I can extract the key and import and sweep it lightening fast. This is when you want that 400k p/s!

phr33

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Quote from: CIYAM on December 28, 2012, 04:22:54 AM

Think of a type of graphical window system that has one letter...

Now you are suggesting that you use X (Capital letter x) as multiplication operator! Wink

A lower case x would make just a tad more sense. Not much, but still Cheesy

CIYAM

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Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer

We have a winner!!!!

http://blockchain.info/address/1CpueVNsEWgEhGD44ymVNoksyFp9Eekec7

BkkCoins

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firstbits:1MinerQ

Also not sure just how literal to take the clues. One may have a general idea but since even one char slightly off ruins it it's easy to scrap an idea out and try another tack.

CIYAM

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Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer

Think of a type of graphical window system that has one letter...

phr33

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Sounds like you are referring to some rather rout of context transformation such as

"one %s plus one %s equals two %s"

The possibilities are too many.
With or without spaces
"plus" / "sum" / "added to"
"equals" / "is"

And the whole "at least" thing suggests that either there are more elements in the equation, or the equation make rather little sense.

I think most ppl trying to crack this are rather technical in their minds Wink

CIYAM

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Quote from: BkkCoins on December 28, 2012, 04:11:54 AM

I saw this as a regex dot and could be any char. But now I've mended my ways and changed my pattern list. Still a lot of variants possible.

and updated again... going once, going twice....

BkkCoins

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Quote from: CIYAM on December 28, 2012, 03:57:16 AM

hmm... seems my way of thinking must be very different to the people trying to solve this puzzle....

let's try this then...

Code:

1p+1p=2.p
       ^
(my wife thinks I meant something else here *and* the equation is how you might/would "write" it down on paper)

Do they still teach writing these days Huh

Is this the reason no-one has guessed this?

I saw this as a regex dot and could be any char. But now I've mended my ways and changed my pattern list. Still a lot of variants possible.

CIYAM

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Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer

hmm... seems my way of thinking must be very different to the people trying to solve this puzzle....

let's try this then...

Code:

1p+1p=2.p
       ^
(my wife thinks I meant something else here *and* the equation is how you might/would "write" it down on paper)

Do they still teach writing these days Huh

Is this the reason no-one has guessed this?

Let me list some simple math operations....

1. addition
2. subtraction
...

robocoin

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Quote from: CIYAM on December 28, 2012, 02:21:30 AM

Okay - am pretty sure this should be the final hint:

Code:

1p+1p=2.p

and Go!

I think I'll kick this whole 'at least thing ' out of my equation. But there are still infinite ways to make a second string out of string + string...

Not sure, but I see a chance that this wasn't your last hint, sir^^

BkkCoins

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So, I've put my mkpwds password generator up on my misc github repo, for anyone who's interested.

It's not as fast as the python one described above but it does work and when piping to JTR I don't think it slows down the process. Seems to gen about 127k pwds/s and I was only getting about 61k pwds/s on JTR with my GPU.

https://github.com/bkkcoins/misc subproject mkpwds

CIYAM

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Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer

Okay - am pretty sure this should be the final hint:

Code:

1p+1p=2.p

and Go!

AwkwardSituation

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The Answer is 42.

Therefore, the 4 character password is

a#42

OpenYourEyes

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Quote from: CIYAM on December 28, 2012, 01:01:27 AM

Actually the password really isn't so random...

0x5E? :p I'm looking at your keys/IDs for clues.

Looking forward to the next hint to the equation. It's had my brain baffled for days.

CIYAM

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Ian Knowles - CIYAM Lead Developer

Actually the password really isn't so random (but the main part of the riddle/puzzle is really the "equation") but I am not going to give away anything more about that unless it isn't successfully brute forced within a day after the next hint...

vampire

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Quote from: OpenYourEyes on December 28, 2012, 12:51:29 AM

Quote from: vampire on December 28, 2012, 12:44:26 AM

I think the password is 1Cpu

But since the logic of generating the hash isn't clear, it's hard to figure out the hash.

From his post above:

Quote

that address was just a complete fluke

Hmm, seems to be more of a challenge aimed at programmers with the highest spec machinery, which I am not, than a riddle.
I'll keep at it any way in case I get lucky.

Generates a key.
Uses first chars of it to generate a hash. Something like 1Cpu1Cpu1Cpu1Cpu or simliar.
Creates a pgp priv key
Encrypts the bitcoin priv key with the gpg public key.

$$$

If the password is random.. Then simply good luck cracking it without knowing the exact logic.

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