I nabbed the rag and valk when they came around, so i don't need the freyja. I think i'm gonna grab a vigilante, I need more battleships On a side note, bomber squads should be a prize in Crossfire, so you need to get bomber 3 above anything else
yeah, cuz you are a pro, i already have heretics, but dont have carrier yet, and looks fancy that ISC carrier, and that carrier dont have 1 less weapon slot like the other ships
Dammit, read this entire thread, and convinced myself the Japanese picture actually said "tiny" in English... Which would kinda make sense in the context of the "least" hint LXC gave earlier. Glad the real answer didn't turn out to be that simple... The entire "decoder squad" would've punched their keyboards in half by now if that was the case.
Also, IIRC, MD5 can be cracked pretty quickly using rainbow tables... Might do that next time (without posting the pass or decoded docs, or any other 'forbidden' info, of course- I enjoy reading along as you guys work through these puzzles) so I can feel speshul despite my complete inability to solve any part of these puzzles.
You never cease to amaze and disgust in the same breathe, Craig. -- [G➃AT]ASTROBOT
@Craig Blanton said:
Dammit, read this entire thread, and convinced myself the Japanese picture actually said "tiny" in English... Which would kinda make sense in the context of the "least" hint LXC gave earlier. Glad the real answer didn't turn out to be that simple... The entire "decoder squad" would've punched their keyboards in half by now if that was the case.
Also, IIRC, MD5 can be cracked pretty quickly using rainbow tables... Might do that next time (without posting the pass or decoded docs, or any other 'forbidden' info, of course- I enjoy reading along as you guys work through these puzzles) so I can feel speshul despite my complete inability to solve any part of these puzzles.
MD5 hashes can only be cracked with a database or like rainbow tables like you described. GENERALHASAWOKEN is probably the first of its kind to become an md5 hash
@Craig Blanton said:
Dammit, read this entire thread, and convinced myself the Japanese picture actually said "tiny" in English... Which would kinda make sense in the context of the "least" hint LXC gave earlier. Glad the real answer didn't turn out to be that simple... The entire "decoder squad" would've punched their keyboards in half by now if that was the case.
Also, IIRC, MD5 can be cracked pretty quickly using rainbow tables... Might do that next time (without posting the pass or decoded docs, or any other 'forbidden' info, of course- I enjoy reading along as you guys work through these puzzles) so I can feel speshul despite my complete inability to solve any part of these puzzles.
MD5 hashes can only be cracked with a database or like rainbow tables like you described. GENERALHASAWOKEN is probably the first of its kind to become an md5 hash
So even with a massive database you would probably come with no dice
@Craig Blanton said:
Dammit, read this entire thread, and convinced myself the Japanese picture actually said "tiny" in English... Which would kinda make sense in the context of the "least" hint LXC gave earlier. Glad the real answer didn't turn out to be that simple... The entire "decoder squad" would've punched their keyboards in half by now if that was the case.
Also, IIRC, MD5 can be cracked pretty quickly using rainbow tables... Might do that next time (without posting the pass or decoded docs, or any other 'forbidden' info, of course- I enjoy reading along as you guys work through these puzzles) so I can feel speshul despite my complete inability to solve any part of these puzzles.
I read Japanese there wouldn't have been a mistake.
This almost looks like a crypto-cube. Something I read a paper on a while back - combination of a vignere cypher and a mitchell cube algorithm. Not exactly sure how to go about breaking it though. Rubik's cube cypher - bleck i'll pass
Dammit, read this entire thread, and convinced myself the Japanese picture actually said "tiny" in English... Which would kinda make sense in the context of the "least" hint LXC gave earlier. Glad the real answer didn't turn out to be that simple... The entire "decoder squad" would've punched their keyboards in half by now if that was the case.
Also, IIRC, MD5 can be cracked pretty quickly using rainbow tables... Might do that next time (without posting the pass or decoded docs, or any other 'forbidden' info, of course- I enjoy reading along as you guys work through these puzzles) so I can feel speshul despite my complete inability to solve any part of these puzzles.
The reason the contest asks you to show your working is because I know locked PDFs can be bruteforced. That's why I don't just give it to the first person to post the password. They need how they arrived at the answer as well.
Dammit, read this entire thread, and convinced myself the Japanese picture actually said "tiny" in English... Which would kinda make sense in the context of the "least" hint LXC gave earlier. Glad the real answer didn't turn out to be that simple... The entire "decoder squad" would've punched their keyboards in half by now if that was the case.
Also, IIRC, MD5 can be cracked pretty quickly using rainbow tables... Might do that next time (without posting the pass or decoded docs, or any other 'forbidden' info, of course- I enjoy reading along as you guys work through these puzzles) so I can feel speshul despite my complete inability to solve any part of these puzzles.
The reason the contest asks you to show your working is because I know locked PDFs can be bruteforced. That's why I don't just give it to the first person to post the password. They need how they arrived at the answer as well.
If you think I'm going to bruteforce more than a 12 character passcode, you think I own a bigger computer.
@Craig Blanton said:
Dammit, read this entire thread, and convinced myself the Japanese picture actually said "tiny" in English... Which would kinda make sense in the context of the "least" hint LXC gave earlier. Glad the real answer didn't turn out to be that simple... The entire "decoder squad" would've punched their keyboards in half by now if that was the case.
Also, IIRC, MD5 can be cracked pretty quickly using rainbow tables... Might do that next time (without posting the pass or decoded docs, or any other 'forbidden' info, of course- I enjoy reading along as you guys work through these puzzles) so I can feel speshul despite my complete inability to solve any part of these puzzles.
MD5 hashes can only be cracked with a database or like rainbow tables like you described. GENERALHASAWOKEN is probably the first of its kind to become an md5 hash
Just did a bit of googling, seems that, despite the numerous security vulnerabilities found in it, preimage resistance (which is what we're interested in here) has not been broken for MD5. However, I reckon that if you tried bruteforcing it with all possible combinations of 1-3 of the first, let's say, 100,000 most-used English words, you'd end up with the password faster than everyone else trying to solve the puzzle. Wikipedia helpfully notes that an old Nvidia GeForce 8800 can calculate 200 million MD5 hashes in a second, so I figure that my AMD radeon HD 7970 could do at least 20 billion h/s, which works out to a little less than 14 hours, worst-case scenario. If the password was 4 words long, on the other hand, that would take just under 159 years.
So, really, considering the amount of hardware, expertise, and work required to pull something like this off, if someone does actually end up bruteforcing the password to one of the future contests, I'd just go ahead and give em the prize anyway.
You never cease to amaze and disgust in the same breathe, Craig. -- [G➃AT]ASTROBOT
Hey LXC, any way I can get in on the prizes too? I did quite a bit of work towards solving this one. I provided the original base64 decoded image, and the color coded binary data image.
AND.. Keres quoted me twice in her hint message.
Honestly, the only thing i screwed up was the final binary data string... the image was quite cleverly sized as 18 x 8 px making me think the binary data was top to bottom instead of left to right.
Just did a bit of googling, seems that, despite the numerous security vulnerabilities found in it, preimage resistance (which is what we're interested in here) has not been broken for MD5. However, I reckon that if you tried bruteforcing it with all possible combinations of 1-3 of the first, let's say, 100,000 most-used English words, you'd end up with the password faster than everyone else trying to solve the puzzle. Wikipedia helpfully notes that an old Nvidia GeForce 8800 can calculate 200 million MD5 hashes in a second, so I figure that my AMD radeon HD 7970 could do at least 20 billion h/s, which works out to a little less than 14 hours, worst-case scenario. If the password was 4 words long, on the other hand, that would take just under 159 years.
So, really, considering the amount of hardware, expertise, and work required to pull something like this off, if someone does actually end up bruteforcing the password to one of the future contests, I'd just go ahead and give em the prize anyway.
So what you're saying is: More words in the final code.
Carrier for sure
don't have one yet 
That would be so awesome XD
Don't forget fusion 3! Speed is KEY!
Dammit, read this entire thread, and convinced myself the Japanese picture actually said "tiny" in English... Which would kinda make sense in the context of the "least" hint LXC gave earlier. Glad the real answer didn't turn out to be that simple... The entire "decoder squad" would've punched their keyboards in half by now if that was the case.
Also, IIRC, MD5 can be cracked pretty quickly using rainbow tables... Might do that next time (without posting the pass or decoded docs, or any other 'forbidden' info, of course- I enjoy reading along as you guys work through these puzzles) so I can feel speshul despite my complete inability to solve any part of these puzzles.
-- [G➃AT]ASTROBOT
MD5 hashes can only be cracked with a database or like rainbow tables like you described. GENERALHASAWOKEN is probably the first of its kind to become an md5 hash
So even with a massive database you would probably come with no dice
I read Japanese there wouldn't have been a mistake.
XD
Yay! >:D
So, really, considering the amount of hardware, expertise, and work required to pull something like this off, if someone does actually end up bruteforcing the password to one of the future contests, I'd just go ahead and give em the prize anyway.
-- [G➃AT]ASTROBOT
Hey LXC, any way I can get in on the prizes too? I did quite a bit of work towards solving this one. I provided the original base64 decoded image, and the color coded binary data image.
AND.. Keres quoted me twice in her hint message.
Honestly, the only thing i screwed up was the final binary data string... the image was quite cleverly sized as 18 x 8 px making me think the binary data was top to bottom instead of left to right.