[LORE CONTEST] Secret Documents: Part IV

  • sr-7150
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    Why "part VI"? Not "part IV"?

  • RalfFr
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    edited 7 Jul 2016, 5:22PM
    Its a PNG file using Base64 encoding and SVG to encode PNG.

    dont really us right programs or know enough to code correctly, but it's along the lines of:

    image:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAAN4Tj9AAAAdULEQVR42mSQQQ7EIAwDPbD//3GZPdAgoBFCTrBLT+BBZAzAAAAAELFTkSuQmCCK9BzFrRcJmqBoWN7YrVqm40+2CdP6GXORrMl6AN97WApoeszE3QkJOYtCviZrwktCZCs46RCd1ZB5jJBPWPsnnwSvsP/AEGHSUhEUgAAABIAAAAICAIAAAB7JXApp7hud9BOg3GaU5+8Q/2u)

     
    EDIT:
    THink i'm duplicating the png/base64 part as this is the iVBORw0K GgoAAAN part... buti'm not learned enough in this art!
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  • Sparrow Hawk 64
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    I have a feeling the prefix here is for a base 64 pn embedded in an HTML file.

    <img src="data:image/png;base64,
    iVBORw0K GgoAAAAN ....

    If this is a cube net it may indicate the ordering of the sections of the rest of the embedded image.

    so for the 1 on the die so to speak we have perhaps

    suffix lines 8 6 8 1 9 7 3 4 9 as data

    or

    SUhEUgAA ABIAAAAI CAIAAAB7
    JXApp7hu d9B0q3Ga U5+8Q/2u
    SUhEUgAA ABIAAAAI CAIAAAB7
    4Tj9AAAA dUlEQVR4 2mSQQQ7E
    E3QkJOYt CviZrwkt CZCs46RC
    JXApp7hu d9BOq3Ga U5+8Q/2u
    T+/BBZAz AAAAAElF TkSuQmCC
    K9BzFrRc JmqBoWN7 YrVqm40+
    JXApp7hu d9BOq3Ga U5+8Q/2u

    assuming raster substitution of the numbers on the face of the die at position 1

    You could then fill out the rest of the "image" data by substituting each number on each face in order with the appropriate 24 character suffix line.





  • Sparrow Hawk 64
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    So in effect we have in image header then 9x6 (54) lines of image data.... the issue is perhaps getting the order of those image lines right and creating a decodeable embedded image.
  • Sparrow Hawk 64
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    embedded base 64 png. Excuse typos
  • Swoboderz
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    I have a feeling the prefix here is for a base 64 pn embedded in an HTML file.

    <img src="data:image/png;base64,
    iVBORw0K GgoAAAAN ....

    If this is a cube net it may indicate the ordering of the sections of the rest of the embedded image.

    so for the 1 on the die so to speak we have perhaps

    suffix lines 8 6 8 1 9 7 3 4 9 as data

    or

    SUhEUgAA ABIAAAAI CAIAAAB7
    JXApp7hu d9B0q3Ga U5+8Q/2u
    SUhEUgAA ABIAAAAI CAIAAAB7
    4Tj9AAAA dUlEQVR4 2mSQQQ7E
    E3QkJOYt CviZrwkt CZCs46RC
    JXApp7hu d9BOq3Ga U5+8Q/2u
    T+/BBZAz AAAAAElF TkSuQmCC
    K9BzFrRc JmqBoWN7 YrVqm40+
    JXApp7hu d9BOq3Ga U5+8Q/2u

    assuming raster substitution of the numbers on the face of the die at position 1

    You could then fill out the rest of the "image" data by substituting each number on each face in order with the appropriate 24 character suffix line.





    only 6 sides on a die. the position of the die (if it even is one) would have overlapping or nonexistent values in them

  • NightLamb
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    Dice can have any number of sides, but I think they have to be even. For example, in D&D you have 6, 12, and 20 sided dice.

  • Swoboderz
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    NightLamb said:

    Dice can have any number of sides, but I think they have to be even. For example, in D&D you have 6, 12, and 20 sided dice.

    but the solve they gave us only has 6

  • Swoboderz
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    well this one seems to be beyond me. i strang all the pieces together following the directions of the number using majority rule to rotate the die and using the numbers on the die to put each of the 9 strings into its own 6 different blocks, i tried converting it into a png but it only gives me an error

  • Starchaser2014
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    the item to solve is a sudoku cube
  • Sparrow Hawk 64
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    I am not sure it is a die.. just that iVBORw0K GgoAAAAN SUhEUgAA seems to indicate Base64 image
  • Andrea Nard1
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    the item to solve is a sudoku cube
    I think so, I said it earlier, and putting together other comments seems that the solution is to solve the sudoku cube, and than substitute on each face of the cube the 9 strings, which should give 6 png files
    image
  • Swoboderz
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    Damnit I don't have a sudokube.

  • Michael774692
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    hello bros, im back, have you found any hint yet?

  • Spask Crondusk
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    You guys play sudoku, where every number need to from one to nine in a cube. It can not be the same number in that cube. Only 1 to 9

  • Swoboderz
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    @Spask Crondusk said:
    You guys play sudoku, where every number need to from one to nine in a cube. It can not be the same number in that cube. Only 1 to 9

    Position of the number matters

  • cyberjoel
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    Alright so i turned the image into a cube in how it folds up. and it raised more questions than answers.





  • Swoboderz
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    @cyberjoel said:
    Alright so i turned the image into a cube in how it folds up. and it raised more questions than answers.

    You need to solve it. It's a sudoku cube. Each side should have numbers 1-9 and no duplicates. Once you have that you can string the code together for the image

  • cyberjoel
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    Swoboderz said:

    @cyberjoel said:
    Alright so i turned the image into a cube in how it folds up. and it raised more questions than answers.

    You need to solve it. It's a sudoku cube. Each side should have numbers 1-9 and no duplicates. Once you have that you can string the code together for the image

    well S*beep* i fail at rubix cubes.
  • Swoboderz
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    @Swoboderz said:

    @cyberjoel said:
    Alright so i turned the image into a cube in how it folds up. and it raised more questions than answers.

    You need to solve it. It's a sudoku cube. Each side should have numbers 1-9 and no duplicates. Once you have that you can string the code together for the image

    @cyberjoel said:
    Swoboderz said:

    @cyberjoel said:

    Alright so i turned the image into a cube in how it folds up. and it raised more questions than answers.

    You need to solve it. It's a sudoku cube. Each side should have numbers 1-9 and no duplicates. Once you have that you can string the code together for the image

    well Sbeep i fail at rubix cubes.

    Fuuuuuuu. I don't even have a rubix cube. I can solve it

  • Swoboderz
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    I give up though. I just don't have the time to solve this **** cube

  • cyberjoel
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    i think i got it
  • Scott O
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    Do tell!
  • cyberjoel
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    Scott O said:
    Do tell!
    to quote sheldon: i figured out the process to solve the equation. 

    right now im decompileing the cube into a fashon my mindset can comprehend and then recompile to ssolve.
  • Tony Pietropaolo
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    Good luck to whom ever solves that one.

    Who ever does probably deserves the blueprints to the entire ISC ship line.

  • cyberjoel
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    Compiled, now im solving for X
  • Redshorts
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    cool, i'll do my best solving this after school...

    about 8 more hours for you all. :P
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  • Scott O
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    So I think I have the image from the first part of the code..  it doesn't seem to make much sense though...  Here's how I did it:

    I created a string starting with the prefix and then appended the consecutive strings in this order: 8,1,2,6,4,9,5,7,3, and decoded using the base64 algorithm.  The message order I determined by analyzing the decoded data and compared it to the expected PNG file format.

    So here is the image:



    Thats pretty small, so here it is blown up a bit:



    This is the only combination of the message lines that I could find that produces an error free image..  but as I said, no idea what the image is supposed to mean.  Its also possible that there was a typo in some of the base64 encoded messages, but I've double checked it several times already.
  • Redshorts
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    Scott O said:
    So I think I have the image from the first part of the code..  it doesn't seem to make much sense though...  Here's how I did it:

    I created a string starting with the prefix and then appended the consecutive strings in this order: 8,1,2,6,4,9,5,7,3, and decoded using the base64 algorithm.  The message order I determined by analyzing the decoded data and compared it to the expected PNG file format.

    So here is the image:



    Thats pretty small, so here it is blown up a bit:



    This is the only combination of the message lines that I could find that produces an error free image..  but as I said, no idea what the image is supposed to mean.  Its also possible that there was a typo in some of the base64 encoded messages, but I've double checked it several times already.
    looks like japanese. go and translate that
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  • aldrockS
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    edited 7 Jul 2016, 9:58PM

    Interesting !! 
    I was stuck on the building of the PNG image
    part 8: IHDR chunk
    part 1: IDAT chunk ,
    then unknown order, 
    part 3: END chunk.

    Now let's try to find the link with the image in the pdf....  :/



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