[LORE CONTEST] Secret documents: Part II

  • SkyNet_600
    SkyNet_600
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    it looks like Base64 image code ...cant do anything for now lol ...lost
  • Mephist0 of SNAFU
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    edited 1 Jul 2016, 3:15AM
    Junren-JS said:
    AlexVern said:
    a very tiny image with some colored pixels and some black pixels

    Same :/
    Better than what I got.  I only got errors.  Can you post what you got (maybe after the contest is over)?  I'm curious! 

    I painstakingly typed out the Base64 text into Notepad verbatim (checked and rechecked).  Then I went to: http://www.base64-image.net/

    I would attach the image I got back but it's too small and zooming-in in an editor doesn't make it any more legible.

    But it's definitely a PNG image.  I decoded the first set to text and it was a PNG file header.
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  • Junren-JS
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    Junren-JS said:
    AlexVern said:
    a very tiny image with some colored pixels and some black pixels

    Same :/
    Better than what I got.  I only got errors.  Can you post what you got (maybe after the contest is over)?  I'm curious! 

    I painstakingly typed out the Base64 text into Notepad verbatim (checked and rechecked).  Then I went to: http://www.base64-image.net/

    I would attach the image I got back but it's too small and zooming-in in an editor doesn't make it any more legible.

    But it's definitely a PNG image.  I decoded the first set to text and it was a PNG file header.
    Oooooooh.  I did the same, I just typed the text in the wrong order.  I went top down left to right, instead of left to right and then succeeding lines.  I wonder if different combinations of the text could lead to a different image file?  This is too much work to do when I have real work to do.  I'll leave that there for the rest of you to consider though. 

    But hint:  Top down from left to right leads to errors.  So strike that combo. 
    Burning all your bridges means that sooner or later you're alone on an island, bereft of allies or means to get anywhere.  Seek to build bridges in all things, treat even your opponents with respect.  Crush them only when there is no other recourse and they hinder your movement forward. 
  • Mephist0 of SNAFU
    Mephist0 of SNAFU
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    K, I've tried PowerShell and other methods but just can't get this to spit out a legible image.  WHAT AM I MISSING?! AGH!
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  • Junren-JS
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    Oh dammit, LXC liked my last comment.  Now I really have to work on this.  XD

    Deadend #2:  Made a string from the characters based on left to right, succeeding lines as basis for text, then assigned numbers. 
    e.g.:
    1    iVBORw0K
    2    GgoAAAAN
    3    SUhEUgAA
    4    ABYAAAAD
    5    CAIAAAAY
    6    zWhEAAAA
    7    MUlEQVQY
    8    V2MAgv//
    9    /8NJCICz
    10    MaWAAKsg
    11    iI8J4FJw
    12    BWhcIICq
    13    gLLAAMIF
    14    AlxsdPD/
    15    PwAjoHGP
    16    ciddOgAA
    17    AABJRU5E
    18    rkJggg==

    Then used test subjects in doc to create strings (i.e. test subjects 1-5 created this string: "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABYAAAADCAIAAAAY")
    Continued through rest, created an entirely new string, input that into converter, error. 

    Ah well.  Does that help some of you? 


    Burning all your bridges means that sooner or later you're alone on an island, bereft of allies or means to get anywhere.  Seek to build bridges in all things, treat even your opponents with respect.  Crush them only when there is no other recourse and they hinder your movement forward. 
  • twistedk
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    I keep getting really small pixelated images

  • eightY
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    It looks like a small part of a QR code with that tiny image.
  • Archo_X
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    It seems to be base64.  Direct image convert fails.  Tried converting to hex, tried the first 15 of hex.  Like many others, I expected that the base64 would be converted to an image, and that would be the password.  Getting close to just brute force...
  • Junren-JS
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    edited 1 Jul 2016, 3:55AM

    (blown up image of the resulting image.  Figured we were all about at this point, might as well post it.) 

    My current guess is that that's the password.  I tried different texts that it "looks like";

    k-7yTv7
    K-yitv7
    etc.  None of those worked.  XD 

    By the way, I echo the Kudos to CM LXC for this puzzle.  It's a nice meta challenge to work with! 

    Burning all your bridges means that sooner or later you're alone on an island, bereft of allies or means to get anywhere.  Seek to build bridges in all things, treat even your opponents with respect.  Crush them only when there is no other recourse and they hinder your movement forward. 
  • subjectobanning
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    enjoy your free condor!
  • the mastadon
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    enjoy your free condor!
    If I get a condor at the end of this, I won't be **** bricks.
     
  • the mastadon
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    Archo_X said:
    It seems to be base64.  Direct image convert fails.  Tried converting to hex, tried the first 15 of hex.  Like many others, I expected that the base64 would be converted to an image, and that would be the password.  Getting close to just brute force...
    seems they won then lol
     
  • twistedk
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    I have different images. I wonder if putting them together does something.

  • Junren-JS
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    I have different images. I wonder if putting them together does something.

    Iiiinteresting.  How did you order the characters?  Right to left, top down?  Left to right, bottom up?  It seems that might be the clue. 
    Burning all your bridges means that sooner or later you're alone on an island, bereft of allies or means to get anywhere.  Seek to build bridges in all things, treat even your opponents with respect.  Crush them only when there is no other recourse and they hinder your movement forward. 
  • SkyNet_600
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    yes lol

  • Archo_X
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    humanisdead

    Code was an image.  Image was braile. :smile:


    Nicely done, ya bastard.
  • SkyNet_600
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    this was fun .....
  • GES KimJong
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    just cam here to see the message, turns out no one has any luck in solving it lol, LXC worked with Anonymous or somethi9ng?
  • the mastadon
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    humanisdead

    Code was an image.  Image was braile. :smile:


    Nice ****. I was bruteforcing that in all caps for 12 characters. Thank you for sparing my CPU lol
     
  • twistedk
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    We had it all along. **** it. Lol.

  • Junren-JS
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    edited 1 Jul 2016, 4:02AM
    humanisdead

    Code was an image.  Image was braile. :smile:

    --snip--
    Very nicely done!  Great work!

    Burning all your bridges means that sooner or later you're alone on an island, bereft of allies or means to get anywhere.  Seek to build bridges in all things, treat even your opponents with respect.  Crush them only when there is no other recourse and they hinder your movement forward. 
  • LXC
    LXC
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    humanisdead

    Code was an image.  Image was braile. :smile:


    Well done. But you won the last time. Let someone else get it.
  • AlexVern
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    not me, i was barking up the wrong tree there. I suggest Junren, he was close and helpful

  • twistedk
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    I never thought of Braille. Lol. It looked like QR code to me. Was going to try and scan it with my phone off a computer. Lmao.

  • Mephist0 of SNAFU
    Mephist0 of SNAFU
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    Agh, soooo close.  Braile?!  I'm not blind so how would I know what that looks like (let that sink in for a sec). :p
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  • the mastadon
    the mastadon
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    wait.... so THIS explains where the zynthium went. crafty bastards.
     
  • Junren-JS
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    AlexVern said:
    not me, i was barking up the wrong tree there. I suggest Junren, he was close and helpful

    Thanks for the thought!  I don't think I would have solved it at all.  The braille angle was something I never would have guessed.  Though if you guys are inclined to give it to me, I would suggest splitting the reward with Mephist0 of SNAFU, since I was about to give up until his post led me on the right track. 
    Burning all your bridges means that sooner or later you're alone on an island, bereft of allies or means to get anywhere.  Seek to build bridges in all things, treat even your opponents with respect.  Crush them only when there is no other recourse and they hinder your movement forward. 
  • GES KimJong
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    CM LXC said:
    humanisdead

    Code was an image.  Image was braile. :smile:


    Well done. But you won the last time. Let someone else get it.
      Socialism Share the wealth lmao
  • SkyNet_600
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    just seen you guys killing brain cells was fun ....
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