Puzzle -> Solve It

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Puzzle -> Solve It Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:35:09 No.4217623 [Reply] [Original]

/b/ has been given a puzzle.

It is either a huge trolling effort, or a nice challenge. Either way - I'll just leave it here.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:40:40 No.4217643 File: 74 KB, 509x503, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No idea what to do with the pattern.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:40:40 No.4217645 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/3301 Work from there scrubs.

>>	OP Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:43:03 No.4217657 Also, this was decoded from the inside of the file: http://i.imgur.com/m9sYK.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:45:19 No.4217662 >>4217643 It looks like The Game of Life for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:46:19 No.4217665 Nope, go away.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:55:24 No.4217689 If you open the image in notepad, the last bit of garbage says: CAESAR says "lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk" But, my work day has ended, fuck off.

>>	Anonymous !x1aZpVg/mw Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:55:24 No.4217690 >>4217662 does look GoLish, i can see a glider

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:55:24 No.4217692 File: 150 KB, 666x297, hexxed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This message shows up at the very end when reading it as Hex. Fuck if I know what that means > UTIBErIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>>33m2qkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk" .

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:56:31 No.4217698 >>4217657 http://i.imgur.com/m9sYK.jpg Imageboard Linking to image WHAT THE FUCK, SERIOUSLY

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:57:39 No.4217701 >>4217698 he's a redditor

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:58:47 No.4217704

Guys. The message within the text is:
Tiberius Claudius Caeser says ... then the code.

A caeser cipher was used to decrypt it to the url given:
>>4217657
>>4217657

The duck image then left us confused. We aren't sure if its an ingenious troll, or a genuine puzzle.

>>	Anonymous !x1aZpVg/mw Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:58:47 No.4217706 >>4217692 convert the hex to ascii? there should be some online converters, or just post the hex here in a way we can copy/paste it

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 18:59:56 No.4217710 >>4217689 TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk"

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:00:03 No.4217711 >>4217706 >message has m q k y >ITS HEX delete your tripcode

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:03:27 No.4217718 >>4217710 lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk http://i.imgur.com/m9sYK.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:06:44 No.4217728 >>4217710 ceaser shift by 4 lxxt is probably http

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:08:59 No.4217732 >>4217692 Obviously referring to the Caesar cipher.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:09:08 No.4217736 >We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. >Post this on /b/ either troll or retard.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:11:16 No.4217739 >>4217736 You must be new. I used to post weekly cryptography threads on /sci/ when it was new and /b/ before that. They solved some hard stuff.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:37:27 No.4217867 >>4217692 What about it having to do the 4th emperor. He had a speech disorder and it does state that he SAYS it.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:54:19 No.4217921 >>4217643 I think the pattern has some significance.. Dunno what though

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:56:35 No.4217929 >>4217921 looks like game of life, maybe if you draw it on game of life it'll do something

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:57:44 No.4217932 The message is 3301 not this bullshit you guys are chasing

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:58:51 No.4217937 >>4217932 >>4217932 >>4217932 >message hidden in this image. 3301hurrrrrrrrrrrrrr

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:59:00 No.4217940 >>4217929 too many cells I think

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 19:59:00 No.4217941 >>4217937 sayidwehideinplanesight.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:00:00 No.4217943 >mqkyv2 this bit in the code looks like it says mcgyver

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:02:24 No.4217949 >>4217937 even so, 3301 is some vague shit, it could mean literally anything

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:03:31 No.4217954 It's an encrypted RAR file. I opened it up and it was CP. (Reported, btw).

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:03:31 No.4217956 >>4217929 nnope, all those spots will just disapear or become larger spots, nothing to see here

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:04:31 No.4217959 >>4217954 >29kb nice try

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:07:55 No.4217964 http://i.imgur.com/m9sYK.jpg i recon its got something to do with this image, in that pink thing maybe, i'd do something, but this computer is so shit it can barely run chrome

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:10:12 No.4217972 File: 5 KB, 512x496, heehey132572013594.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The dots in >>4217643

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:12:27 No.4217976 >>4217964 The pink is just duck it seems..

>>	full !metalHJfCs Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:16:59 No.4217991 >>4217972 most of those are by themselves and would kill themselves in g2. I doubt it has anything to do with the GoL

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:16:59 No.4217992 >>4217976 looks so out of place though, must be something

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:17:07 No.4217997 >>4217992 my thoughts exactly. I can't find any message in the pink, though

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:19:23 No.4218006 >>4217992 Not likely, the image is duplicated many places on the internet according to google, including the pink spot.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:24:56 No.4218013 It's still possible it's a cypher, just not a Caesar shift as we thought.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:25:03 No.4218020 >>4218006 we could convert this shit to hex like the other one, might even be another message

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:26:03 No.4218022 >>4218013 maybe thats how the 3301 is relevant

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:27:20 No.4218030 >>4217937 >too stupid to decode four numbers

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:27:20 No.4218031 >>4218020 Tried, it's not as obvious as the last one at least..

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:28:27 No.4218033 >>4218013 lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk http://i.imgur.com/m9sYK.jpg looks like shift 4 to me h i j k l t u v w x p q r s t i can only assume 3 is / 2 works out to be . all fits in

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:33:00 No.4218040 >>4218031 upload a pic, see if we can make something of it

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:37:32 No.4218053 >>4217972 How are we supposed to know that there aren't also black squares under the text and that you've omitted them? Cleaning that up seems impossible...

>>	anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:39:39 No.4218058 Guys It easy u just have to find out all Tiberius Claudius Caeser quotes and then try to compare.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:40:48 No.4218063 >>4218053 I was carfeul when I removed the text. All squares "inside" the text should be there. (there was some) They seem very consistent

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:41:55 No.4218065 >>4218058 Veni, vidi, vici This famous quote springs to mind

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:42:04 No.4218068 >>4218058 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tiberius.html

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:47:43 No.4218076 Where are our torment players when you need them?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:48:43 No.4218078 >>4218058 Well I dont think that is the best solution, This shit is supposed to be I.Q test Not the test of general knowledge.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:49:52 No.4218084 >>4218078 3301

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:51:07 No.4218089 there's gotta be something that ties all this stuff together... capcha: CND netweak

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:54:23 No.4218096

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/_webapp25.py", line 701, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/ffnp/1.355550137027778285/number.py", line 196, in get
notes = db.Query(note.Note).filter('number_handle', handle).fetch(100)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 2084, in fetch
return list(self.run(limit=limit, offset=offset, **kwargs))
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 2237, in next
return self.__model_class.from_entity(self.__iterator.next())
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py"
, line 2655, in next
next_batch = self.__batcher.next()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py"
, line 2525, in next
return self.next_batch(self.AT_LEAST_ONE)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py"
, line 2562, in next_batch
batch = self.__next_batch.get_result()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py"&#44
; line 592, in get_result
return self.__get_result_hook(self)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py"
, line 2317, in __query_result_hook
self._conn.check_rpc_success(rpc)
File

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 20:58:56 No.4218113 >>4218096 what the fuck am i reading

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:02:20 No.4218124

ok

So i used subsequent ceaser cipher decripts of shifts of 3 then 3 then nothing (for zero) then 1 (which leaves it unchanged)

This gives this url:

HTTP>33I2IMGUR2COM3M=S]K2JPG

I don't know what = or ] could be

however I don't know what = and ] could correspond to?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:02:27 No.4218128 >>4218113 The answer

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:03:27 No.4218130 >>4217692 Wasn't one of the smartest things people did in a long time, and by smartest I mean deductive smart, was crack the enigma code?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:03:35 No.4218133 >>4218124 So that's http://i.imgur.com/M=S]K.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:06:51 No.4218138 >>4218124 >>4218133 Learn to read the thread. God damn. I'm not even participating and it's embarrassing to watch you.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:06:51 No.4218139 >>4218124 HTTP://I.IMGUR.COM/M=S]K.JPG where 2 = . where 3 = / shits heading towards http://i.imgur.com/m9sYK.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:07:00 No.4218143 >>4218124 Using the Caesar cipher gave the Imgur link with the duck. Its either just a troll, a decoy or the duck is more important I.E the pink pixels.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:10:15 No.4218150 >>4218022 There are a lot of cyphers, and according to my Code Book (by Simon Singh) the Caesar Shift is one of the easiest.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:11:31 No.4218155 >>4218143 Who said it was pink and not perhaps purple? in hex #3301 is=to a blueish color but one of the analogous colors of of this shade is #9a00, which is the same purple in the picture So, 9a00, if you think it has any relevance. I don't

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:12:31 No.4218157 >>4218150 its the sorta cipher you get with a happy meal

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:13:39 No.4218160

>>4217623

Really guys this type of test suck, It privilege persons with good IT skills. HOW the fuck I am supposed to know what is Traceback,subsequent ceaser, etc... I am definitely not Math oriented. this task is stupid --> fuck that secret company or what is it.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:14:48 No.4218166 >>4217972 Is it Morse Code?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:15:55 No.4218167 Has anyone run a steganograph program on the image yet?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:15:55 No.4218169 >>4218155 its the only link we have to 3301, so its something

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:17:12 No.4218174 >>4218160 >I am definitely not Math oriented >posting on /sci/ ISHYGDDT

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:21:43 No.4218183 >>4218143 It would seem that the Tiberius Caesar part would be the decoy, leading us to use the Caesar shift, thus the duck. Again, there are many more cyphers.

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:23:52 No.4218188

>>4218160

Iam also able to prove that. I will give u another stupid task(I will use my native language, make u realised how hard is this shit for me) and if u solved it u will be able to trace my domicile.
Bydlím v zemi krásné
Pod velkým kopcem svatým
Vždyť je to přece jasné
V ulici, po umělci pokřetěným.
11

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:26:07 No.4218196 File: 65 KB, 1118x634, duck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] So has anyone actually checked this image thoroughly? (the duck)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:27:23 No.4218200 >>4218188 I live in a beautiful country Under the great hill saints After all, it was obvious The street, the artists pokřetěným. google translate can fuck right off

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:27:23 No.4218201 >>4218196 THATS THE SPIRIT

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:27:23 No.4218202 >>4218160 >, It privilege persons with good IT skills The point is that's the sort of person they're looking for, not just someone who's done a few cryptic crosswords. I know google have done this sort of recruitment before

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:28:31 No.4218208

>>4218183

Two more considerations:
1) The notepad text led to the Caesar Shift duck - taken at face value, this could mean we should reconsider the 3301 and dot pattern and look in other areas

2) The duck may actually be a decoy, in that the image really is the next clue...

Question, has anyone tried the notepad trick with the duck image - the end text may contain the next clue...

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:31:47 No.4218216

>>4218208

Just had another thought:

3rd consideration:

> UTIBErIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>>33m2qkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk"

this is not hex and would cause corruption within the image...

Maybe the purple on the duck is due to non-hex code corruption...

Find the code causing the odd color within the image - find the next clue - is my thought...

>>	full !metalHJfCs Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:33:03 No.4218221 >>4218216 >this is not hex I get what you're saying, but all digital information can be expressed in hex

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:33:03 No.4218222 >>4218200 U know nothing lord Snow 2 more help from me. In this context mean pokřtěný name as( also babtised). Under the great hill saints indicated the place (village) But u are still fucked up

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:36:20 No.4218229 >>4218221 the non hex data was most likely just added to the file manually by the user, meaning the image won't be corrupted, hence the lack of corruption in the original pic

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:37:35 No.4218233 lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk 33m2mqkyv2gsq3q this ^ part of the script might be a deep web link

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:38:35 No.4218234 File: 29 KB, 250x249, message.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I take it that doesn't count?

>>	full !metalHJfCs Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:39:51 No.4218246 File: 39 KB, 633x401, .png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4218229 something of note in the duck image, right at the end in hex. morse code?

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:40:51 No.4218250
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>>4218202 btw its not cryptic just poetic, but as I said u have no chance to solve it because u dont have geography info about my country. SEE?. They are also looking for high inteligent persons not for it experts

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:41:00 No.4218257 >>4218233 That part is already solved. Pay attention. >>4218216 How would we know what part it is? Edit and check for differences?

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:41:00 No.4218258

Random thoughts...

3301 is prime... so an decryption key?

The duck has a purple colour on it: There is a cipher machine called PURPLE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_(cipher_machine)

find out more here http://www.hut-six.co.uk/purple/index.html

you can download a simulator and it uses a 5 digit key

again... doesn't look promising to me but I'm just posting it in case it makes sense to anyone else.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:43:15 No.4218272 File: 139 KB, 665x318, alphabetj.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've found this string of letters in the original image. It's alphabetical and is done in upper and lowercase, too much to be a coincidence? CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZ cdefghijstuvwxy

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:43:15 No.4218273 >>4218246 could well be, where dashes are displayed as the squares im assuming? >>4218233 open TOR and try and get to it

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:44:15 No.4218275 File: 5 KB, 512x496, wat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4217972 I got some random artifacts while messing around with this, which I guess means that you messed up the colors on those areas, if that even matters.

>>	Imhotep !jE19dxWPqM Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:45:24 No.4218281 >>4218246 That bit at the end is probably hidden data. If it is another image, or an encrypted URL, I do not know. Someone should try to build an image out of it.

>>	full !metalHJfCs Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:46:32 No.4218287 >>4218281 it's too repetitive and simple.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:47:39 No.4218293 So does anybody here know Morse code off hand?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:47:47 No.4218294 >>4218233 no I think that has to be 16 characters - there are only 15 there.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:49:56 No.4218304 >>4218293 doubt it, but this is the internet, and moorse code is some old shit, it'll be on wikipedia atleast

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:50:03 No.4218318 >>4218275 Oh fuck. Yes I may have chosen the wrong color.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:50:03 No.4218319 >>4218272 how do you open a program or image as a Hex good sir?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:52:11 No.4218329 >>4218272 Morse code translates to: CN/INN/INN/INN (/INN keeps repeating)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:52:20 No.4218332 >>4218329 tried inverting it (you may have dots vs. dashes wrong)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:53:27 No.4218338 >>4218246 morse code translation, looks repetetive: N/INN/INN/INN/INN/INN/ Using the boxes as dash, dots as dots

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:54:27 No.4218341 >>4218332 Inverted AAI AAI AAI A

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:55:43 No.4218352 >>4218329 >>4218338 >>4218341 doesn't look like its moorse code

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:55:43 No.4218353 Rotate the image and save it. Check the hex again.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:56:43 No.4218354 >>4218319 >>4218319 With your favorite hex editor

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:56:43 No.4218355 >>4218353 this

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:56:43 No.4218357

Don't what this means or if its even relevant but just chipping in a bit.

"Some reports say that the octal equivalent (3301) was the password to Xerox PARC's main computer."

That was from the wikipedia page of number 1729.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:56:51 No.4218360 File: 585 KB, 509x496, 1325724383469.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I ran some advanced tracing algorithms. I think you guy's will want to see this.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:57:51 No.4218364 >>4218360 i lol'd

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:58:00 No.4218367 >>4218354 any program name you could recomend?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:58:00 No.4218372 File: 6 KB, 632x266, space invaders.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4218275 >>4218275 Space invaders!?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:58:00 No.4218373 >>4218360 lol'd hard

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:58:00 No.4218374 >>4218367 ghex in linux

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 21:59:07 No.4218375 >>4218360 Fucking lol.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:00:16 No.4218378 >>4218367 I suggest Hex Workshop

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:00:16 No.4218380

Did anyone notice that there are four distinct bodies of text and four numbers at the bottom, Im trying to see if they are just trying to cue SOMETHING based on that line of thinking. So far doesnt seem to be yielding anything (Plus, in a counting system, 0 tends to create problems)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:01:16 No.4218384 File: 12 KB, 241x230, 1318874143968.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4218360 lol! you got me there anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:01:16 No.4218386 >>4218357 hmmm... vignere cipher w/ PARC as the key? I'll check it out...

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:02:24 No.4218388 File: 23 KB, 375x500, 1325641524681.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4218360

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:03:31 No.4218394 >>4218378 >>4218374 thanks, bros

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:03:31 No.4218395 >>4218380 you may be onto something

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:05:47 No.4218401 >>4218380 >>4218395 Im no good with number-systems, anyone know of a way to convert 3301 to something relevant and get rid of the 0? what does it look like in hex?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:05:47 No.4218402 1033 = loss ?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:06:55 No.4218410 >>4218402 get the fuck out

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:06:55 No.4218413 >>4218380 Have you tried steganography? Could try using the phrases you found as passwords?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:07:04 No.4218415 3301 in hex comes out to 13057 in decimal and 0011001100000001 in binary. I dont think the binary is going to come out to anything interesting in Morse code, and the decimal notation still has that damn 0

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:07:04 No.4218418 >>4218415 Why is the zero bad?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:08:11 No.4218423 >>4218401 3301 is a valid hexidecimal number however the decimal 3301 in hex is ce5

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:08:11 No.4218426 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1280s_BC

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:10:19 No.4218430 >>4218423 If the caeser cipher was +4 (I think?), why not do the same to that number?

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:10:28 No.4218432

>>4218418
in steganography you sometimes rely on a counting system, and zero fucks up counting systems because it can either mean 1 (and every other number is +1) or another instance of the previous result.

Either way, the Third of the first two and the first of the last text block spells "leg" not much of a help. Thought I was on to something before I realized the duck pic didnt have a leg.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:10:28 No.4218433 The image of the duck is from: www.frostwaterfowl.com/products/carved_decoys/carved_wooden_decoys.htm A carved decoy store. The duck already has the purple on it, it wasn't placed there.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:11:28 No.4218437 That purple thing is of no value, that picture is likely (NOT DEFINITELY) to be a decoy telling you to go back to the original picture. Look up decoy on google, and you should find that exact picture.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:11:35 No.4218439 >>4218426 doesnt really help much...

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:12:35 No.4218442 >>4218430 4 in base 16 = 4 in base 10 so its still 4

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:13:44 No.4218449 >>4218437 or maybe the text in the duck picture has the same encoding strategy as the original pic.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:14:51 No.4218452 >>4218449 reported for not keeping up, enjoy your ban

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:14:51 No.4218453 >>4218430 +3

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:16:00 No.4218458 >>4218442 >>4218442 I meant to 3301. And since the correction was made by an anon, that would be 6634?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:17:15 No.4218467 >>4218275 Try rotating the image in 90 degree increments and the superimposing them on eachother to create an Aztec or boilerplate barcode.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:18:24 No.4218473 >>4218458 could be, im thinking the ceaser cipher was part of a seperate puzzle though, it lead us to the duck, now we need to figure out what the fuck to do with the duck

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:18:24 No.4218476 >>4218453 http://www.color-hex.com/color/6634

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:20:31 No.4218482 >>4218467 this

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:20:40 No.4218485

>>4218208
>>4218216
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>>4218433
>>4218437

I guess the decoy image is really just a decoy image. Although why that image should have a pink color is beyond me. It seems a little too useful as a means of sidetracking us to examine the decoy pic itself.

As to the problem at hand:

What cyphers work off a numeric key? The 3301 may not be part of the cypher itself, just the password.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:21:40 No.4218488 Duck's hex color is #CC77DD, give or take.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:23:55 No.4218498 >>4218476 same but ce5 http://www.color-hex.com/color/ccee55 hexidecimal representation of 3301 assuming 3301 is base 10

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:23:55 No.4218502 >>4218485 try 6634

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:24:04 No.4218503 http://www.leog.net/

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:24:04 No.4218505 The color was already there.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:25:11 No.4218509 >>4218485 maybe purple is the name of the cipher machine and 3301 is the decryption key? >>4218258 >>4218258

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:26:20 No.4218517 In case nobody noticed, the text blocks have 16, 8, 24, and 2 words respectively in that order. Seems too ordered to have no significance.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:27:20 No.4218518 >>4218467 That'd be great if someone could do this.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:28:27 No.4218524 >>4218503 ? Page source is essentially blank.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:28:36 No.4218526 >>4218517 >>4218517 thats pretty interesting

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:28:36 No.4218527 >>4218517 Maybe the pattern is (3301)x(1/2)x(3)x(1/12) repeated until you reach an arbitrary value (zero or one?) to create a hex code which translates to a message?

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:29:36 No.4218529

>>4218509

no the key is 5 digit. Also I think this simulator is way too complicated to run for it to be related.

Perhaps the duck really does have nothing to do with it - my bet would be concentrating on the original image. perhaps the duck really is just a decoy

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:29:36 No.4218533 >>4218527 Sad thing is, even though I proposed this, Im too lazy to do it, anyone here living in a place where the sun isnt about to rise?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:31:51 No.4218538 >>4218529 you seem to actually know what you're talking about, what do you think of this solution? > >>4218527

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:32:59 No.4218541 >>4218524 How the fuck do we see what that transparent gif image is?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:32:59 No.4218543 File: 368 KB, 900x1099, 3301line.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Shifting bits and bytes from around line/chunk 3301

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:33:08 No.4218544

>>4218529
The duck is a decoy. Duck decoy - Too obvious. Someone was saying on /b/ that the decoy images is a hint to what steganography tool was used to place a message inside the original image.
Steganography seems to make sense to me, if you look at images of before and after images of it being applied. The images get slightly pixilated, just like the background of the original image.

Anyone know any steganography tools that can be related to the decoy image?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:34:15 No.4218548 >>4218541 Its nothing, if you open it its 1x1 pixels

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:35:15 No.4218551 >>4218543 that is the sorta thing id expect to see from shifting a small portion of an images hexidecimal data 4 chars

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:36:24 No.4218555 File: 29 KB, 509x503, 330a1a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Wider chunk surrounding 3301. There's some neo-reader?? pattern in same place as 3301 but it's probably nothing. Though the exact same area highlights up quite often

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:37:32 No.4218556 >>4218503 HOLY SHIT do we have proof that this is actually related to this puzzle? because I just realized that if you use the 0 as an o with the method I used here>>4218432 you get the fucking URL

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:38:39 No.4218559 >>4218538 HA! lol no I don't.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:39:48 No.4218562 >>4218559 Im just trying to unify our efforts. Ive been poking around with basic Steganography and Im getting what seem to be results. If you are a wiz with hex, mind giving this >>4218527 a shot?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:43:20 No.4218576 >>4218527 Just tried chugging this out a little. It doesnt terminate at 1, and there are too many messy decimals to get any real info out.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:43:20 No.4218577 >>4218233 Perhaps someone with tor should try this, worth a shot :) (sorry for not keeping to date been paranoid with deep web)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:43:20 No.4218578 is it just me or is there something purple sticking out from the decoy ducks wing?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:44:20 No.4218580 # Cathetus, in geometry, "leg" lines that form angles or triangles >>4218432 got this from wikipedia

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:45:27 No.4218583 >>4218517 convert this to hex and you get 22, 8, 36, and 2. Not really any pattern there.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:45:27 No.4218584 >>4218562 gave it a shot `for you - didn't go anywhere :(

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:45:27 No.4218585 >>4218577 it was my idea, and i have tor, so i'll try probably will get no results

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:45:35 No.4218586 >>4218584 Thanks for trying.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:46:35 No.4218587 >>4218580 3301 Happens to be a Pythagorean triple : 3301^2 = 1501^2+2940^2

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:47:44 No.4218591 >>4218584 Ty for trying mate :)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:47:44 No.4218594 >>4218587 shit, so now we have the infamous legs I guess? I have no idea where this is going.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:47:44 No.4218595 >>4218517 What are those in binary?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:48:51 No.4218596 >>4218587 15012940 mean anything to anyone?

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:48:51 No.4218597
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>>4218432
>>4218503
>>4218556

Nice find.

Pic shows the contents of the transparent.gif file.

Question - why is there a webpage on the net containing only a 1x1 pixel image for no apparent reason?
Coincidence?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:50:07 No.4218602 >>4218596 Im trying to bend these numbers a little and find corresponding patterns in the text, so far nothing though.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:51:15 No.4218603 >>4217645 >>4218596 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15012940 lol I don't suppose mongooses have anything to do with this...?!

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:52:15 No.4218606 >>4218603 doubtful

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:52:15 No.4218607 Tidbit: 3301 in octal is 1729, which is the smallest number than can be represented in two different ways as the sum of two cubes.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:52:15 No.4218608 my tor didn't get the connection, perhaps someone with better internet than 5mb should do it and post results >>4218577

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:53:24 No.4218613

>>4218555
those that sqaure that is broken down into four more squares looks like a gmask thing. However, four is not enough to mask anything, and you can manually solve that in paint. The only problem is, you can't solve it. There must be more bricks, and it would be a working Gmask.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:53:31 No.4218614 >>4218607 Thats already been said See >>4218357

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:53:31 No.4218615 File: 104 KB, 377x600, 1305054603549.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4217657 go back to reddit.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:55:47 No.4218622 >>4218615 dat thundertights

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:58:04 No.4218629 >>4218615 that is juju salimeni, she's from Brazil in case someone want sauce (inb4 go back to /b/)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:59:11 No.4218630 >>4218622 >not noticing dem quads

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 22:59:11 No.4218631 >>4218608 .onion domains have 16 character domains the one you're trying has only 15.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:00:11 No.4218632 well, keeping the text divided into four fields, the first, fifth, (skip one), second, ninth, and fourth letters in the corresponding series are: h-e-g-e-m-d for what thats worth.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:02:27 No.4218639 File: 115 KB, 469x428, MrExpert_Trollface-Right.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This was posted on /b/ I highly doubt this was intended to have a solution.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:03:35 No.4218645 I really feel like the whole 16-8-24-2 thing has some merit to it

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:03:44 No.4218646 File: 13 KB, 590x267, wolframalpha-20120104220245347.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] wolfram alpha results for 3301

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:08:08 No.4218652 For all the fellow pattern hunters out there who are still fixated on the actual letters, the lettercount (as best I can manage) for each block is : 76, 32, 98, 8, and the wordcount is 16, 8, 24, 2

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:09:15 No.4218655 leog.net look at the bottom of your screen when you inspect that element you get GIF89a‘ÿÿÿÿÿÿ!ù,T; ERRONE GO THERE NOW AND TELL ME I'M NOT CRAZY.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:09:15 No.4218656 >>4218639 The duck-thing worked out so Im assuming there may be some validity to this puzzle.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:10:32 No.4218659 >>4218655 Shit, I didnt even see that. BTW, where the hell did this site come from anyway, I cant manage to find the point at which it is related to the original puzzle.

Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:10:32 No.4218660

>>4218645

I really wish I knew more so I could help you guys out better, I've been following from the OP.

I googled 16, 8, 24, 2

The first thing that came up was about colour depth, could this be related? It only spoke about 8 16 and 24, no idea what it it means but I guessed 2 would probably be black and white?

I may be miles off so feel free to ignore.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:12:40 No.4218662 >>4218660 Yeah, you want to try to find a system; a rhyme to the reason so you can decode whatever the fuck is going on here.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:12:40 No.4218663 File: 8 KB, 216x234, 1285944553601.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4218660 If you shift the image to the right using these patterns and then transpose the image matrix, then you get the answer.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:15:04 No.4218669 well, Im done, Im starting to see patterns that I can quickly prove dont exist. Time to pack it in.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:17:20 No.4218671 >>4218669 Disappointing as it may be... I think I'm also done for the night. Good luck... if it does turn out to be soluble, please archive the result thanks.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Jan 4, 2012 23:45:31 No.4218710 I'm working on it still.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 00:05:56 No.4218754 >>4218710 any luck?

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 00:08:20 No.4218761

>>4218754
I've spent the last 20 minutes reading about everybody else's efforts and have been ignorantly following along.

>Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 00:23:04 No.4218805
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>>4218761
Alright, done.

I can't solve it with what I know. Whoever is hiring is probably looking for somebody with a lot more knowledge when it comes to computers and/or coding than me - and that's not saying a lot.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 00:28:35 No.4218811 fake and gay

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 00:42:11 No.4218826 >>4218659 I'd also like to know how this site was found.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 00:53:40 No.4218857

>>4218761
>Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

Pretty much all I've done this thread - as well as summarizing current efforts here and there for the benefit of newcomers.

>>4218826
Here:
>>4218597

---------------- >>4218233
Yet another observation - if 33m2mqkyv2gsq3q may be an incomplete deep web address, the 3301 may provide a clue as to the last digit. A 7 or a 0 or perhaps a unicode symbol...

This is unlikely to yield results, since the tor address thing is a long shot at best and surrounded by conflicting data...

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 00:56:56 No.4218869 σ is 3301 in unicode... Anyone got some info they would like to share abut that symbol?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 00:59:20 No.4218875 >>4218869 In QM, we use <span class="math"> \sigma [/spoiler] for the Pauli matrices; in EM we typically use it for conductivity; and in statistics, <span class="math"> \sigma [/spoiler] is the standard deviation. Not sure how that helps you lol.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:00:27 No.4218878 >>4218096 > using python not using based perl

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:04:52 No.4218885 I GOT IT, I GOT IT! OP is a fag. brb, throwing on some nice clothes, combing my hair, and heading down to the gay club to interview for my new high-paying job!

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:06:07 No.4218890

>>4218869

Lowercase greek letter sigma - 18th letter in the Greek alphabet.
Corresponds to r as the 18th letter of the English alphabet forwards or i backwards.

As a symbol:
(mathematics, statistics) The symbol for standard deviation.
(linguistics, phonology) The symbol for a syllable.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:09:31 No.4218897 >>4218890 could it have something to do with 6-sigma maybe? just throwing that out there, and if it's a company that might have significance.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:10:31 No.4218899

>>4218857
>>4218890

If σ is meant as an 18th letter, then the tor address may be 33m2mqkyv2gsq3q(r) or 33m2mqkyv2gsq3q(i)

Personally I believe the CAESAR text holds the real point of this problem. It led to the duck with a caesar shift, so the question is what it may lead to with other approaches.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:10:31 No.4218900 3301 is the steg key. remove #000000 from the image, and decode the various 8x8 pixel blocks based on position of color #010101. i thought you guys were smart

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:16:11 No.4218913 >>4218890 it's the symbol used for minimum distance decoding in algebraic coding theory

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:16:20 No.4218914 >>4218900 And? Post results nigger.... Personally I think we're thinking too elaborate. A simple Caesar shift led to the duck image... What other forms of cypher could be used - especially ones based around the number 3301?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:16:20 No.4218915 >>4218899 but the duck image says >"just decoys THIS WAY, looks like you can't figure out how to get the message out" meaning that method will only lead to decoys, and there's somethig else to be extracted

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:21:51 No.4218922 >>4218914 3301/sigma is probably just the handle of the guy who made the puzzle; it's his signature

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:21:51 No.4218924 Lets start fresh, what could CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>>33m2qkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk" be besides a Caesar shift?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:22:59 No.4218928 Intelligence allows people to make educated guesses, in reality the greatest discoveries come down to luck. Intelligence only increases your luck in the discovery.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:24:15 No.4218932

>>4218928
I would have to say that intelligence can DRASTICALLY improve the likelihood of discovering something. For example, professors that publish in Nature / Science often tend to do so fairly consistently, whereas most are lucky to get one in their careers. But yea, luck's definitely involved.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:25:15 No.4218934

Also what test did the people who you are going to meet have to pass to prove their intelligence? Did they simply assume they are of the high intelligence required or does the secret simply lead to some kind of place in which the people you are meeting are your fellow puzzle solvers?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:26:24 No.4218938 >>4218900 Thanks.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:28:40 No.4218942

>>4218914

Possible ciphers - monoalphabetic substitution - casear shift - Vigenere cipher - from then on they're rather complex and I don't fully understand them myself...

>>4218915
On one hand I think the caesar message is too important to be discarded - currently as the only approach that has yielded results of any kind...

On the other the wording of the decoy image:
>looks like you can't figure out how to get the message out
is ambiguous but could be taken to mean that pursuing the caesar message is wrong and there are other approaches to extracting the right info, or that the caesar message is the correct path but using the wrong approach to the message, indicating the need for another type of cypher.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:29:48 No.4218945 >>4218924 a Vigenère cipher based on the letters of "CLAUDIVUS" "CAESAR" or both?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:31:04 No.4218952 >>4218945 Can't believe haven't thought of that yet, workin on it now

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:31:04 No.4218954 TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk"

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:32:11 No.4218958 File: 8 KB, 512x496, flip.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4218467 done 90/180/270 rotate plus horizontal and vertical flips

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:33:20 No.4218962 Nobody seems to have realized yet that the string at the end of the image file is: TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk" There's also "Tiberius" in there - that could make a difference!

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:38:52 No.4218973

>>4218952
Just tried all 4 as keys with no luck, gonna try substituting the V's for U's, on a related note what language did they speak at that point was it italian or latin? and if latin how many letters are in that alphabet and do you guys think that might play a role in the encryption

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:40:07 No.4218983

OK, I've gotten to a point where my head hurts. This seems to be related in some way to the RSA algorithm. I've extracted a private key, decrypted a jumble of letters and numbers in various ways that I either: don't understand, or it's just a jumble of letters and numbers that could be put together in various ways. My only conclusion is that there's WAY more beyond the initiation phase of this puzzle...

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:43:31 No.4218994 Also, I believe that this puzzle was constructed to find individuals that excel at observation as well as math logic.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:44:40 No.4218997 >>4218983 How did you extract a key?? And also, how do you know it's a key?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:46:47 No.4219007 File: 22 KB, 479x422, 09inokl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A puzzle within a puzzle.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:47:56 No.4219013 I doubt that if it's a deep web link the emploment would be anything close to legal anyways.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:48:03 No.4219017 >>4218997 I've tried many different primes, an inversion of 3301 (1033) seemed to make the most sense. I also might not be looking hard enough.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:50:19 No.4219025 File: 16 KB, 711x351, Vigenere.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4218942 Attached are the results of mucking around with Vigenere found on http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/vigenere-keyed.php

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:52:35 No.4219035 www.3301.com ?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:53:35 No.4219037 >>4218994 No. It's shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:56:59 No.4219050 >>4219037 You're just mad because you probably have a prestigious degree in some money-making field, but can't solve an easy image steganography.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:57:08 No.4219054
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You guys.

I made this over a year ago and posted it to various places of the web/deep web. I am crying right now I swear I am fucking crying I can't believe nobody has been able to get it. I can't believe the emptiness I experienced finding this on /b/ today. The solution is defunct and was as of 6 months ago.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 01:59:23 No.4219062 >>4217623 This is either part of the puzzle or the creator(s) aren't too smart themselves. There shouldn't be a comma after "Find it".

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:00:23 No.4219063 >>4218997 Forgot to give you a link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm) You can also just google it.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:00:32 No.4219064 >>4218958 What happens if you rotate each quarter by 90 degrees... and hit it with a QR code scanner? Just curious.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:01:32 No.4219069 >>4219062 That comma isn't necessary, but isn't nonsensical to be there.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:01:32 No.4219070 >>4219054 Then post it solution or it didn't happen and fail troll is fail. Interesting filename too: >Wjjfk049MMNJFkj456

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:01:40 No.4219071 >>4219054 could not be the case. The duck image was uploaded to imgur 11 hours ago.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:02:47 No.4219079 >>4219064 tried and tried. nothing. sorry.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:03:47 No.4219081 >>4219062 Yes there should, grammatical newfriend.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:04:55 No.4219086 http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/affine.php Check this shit out guys - coprime numbers for a can be 3 and 1 - hence 3301.... Just gonna toss shit and see what sticks.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:05:04 No.4219087 File: 28 KB, 406x391, 1188415731416.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4219079 Hmm.. Interesting. I see someone else thought of that before me. This is entertaining.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:07:11 No.4219091 At this point, I'm pretty sure it's just a huge trolling effort...

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:07:11 No.4219092 File: 8 KB, 245x251, 1308979335811.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anyone else remember Operation Falcon Punch? http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Operation_Falcon_Punch

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:12:51 No.4219105 >>4218962 read the thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:23:11 No.4219146 >>4219092 That is some of the most ridiculous bullshit I've ever seen. Reading it has made me lose all interest in even trying to decrypt OP's message.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:28:51 No.4219162 >>4219146 >implying you're not just using that as a half-assed excuse so you don't have to admit you're too stupid to figure out the puzzle

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:33:16 No.4219168 >>4219162 >implying you ar...

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:34:31 No.4219175 File: 24 KB, 366x301, aragorn-aragorn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4219168 ...what? >implying you aragorn!

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:35:31 No.4219179

>>4218945

>a Vigenère cipher based on the letters of "CLAUDIVUS" "CAESAR" or both?

There may be a clue in that name, since that's the wrong emperor. Gaius Julius Caesar invented the cipher. So our puzzle maker may have just messed up, or he may have used a different emperor to make it stand out as a clue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:36:40 No.4219188 >>4219179 Did Tiberius Claudius Caesar have a cipher that you know of?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:39:56 No.4219196 >>4219162 The image can only be found on 4chan. It was only posted on 4chan. It wasn't posted anywhere else - you can check yourself. "They" are looking for intelligent people on a Japanese image board. Cute idea, but this really belongs on /x/.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:43:35 No.4219212 I figured this out! Answer is th...

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:44:35 No.4219213 check for clues based on Roman numerals of 3301 and the other sides of the Pythagorean triple.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:45:44 No.4219216 File: 27 KB, 482x321, laughing-women-friendship-greetings.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4219196 >intelligent people >/x/

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:45:44 No.4219219 >>4219212 This joke worked slightly better before captchas.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 02:46:51 No.4219224 >>4219216 >The point ---> . >Your head ---> o

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 03:06:15 No.4219281 >>4219179 I spotted this... And yet the Caesar shift cypher led somewhere... AFAIK Tiberius never invented a cypher.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 03:22:04 No.4219315
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>>4217972
You missed some squares.

By the way, the reason it's being done in 8x8 squares has to do with the way the JPEG format works. If you tried to encode a message in scattered pixels, JPEG's lossy compression algorithm would it.

I suspect what's been done is that the DC component of each 8x8 block has had its last bit changed. In that case, the picture here, made by converting (0,0,0) to blue and (1,1,1) to red, will also be missing some of the squares, because the text obscures the effect. I'll look into it and see if this is what's been done.

>>4218900
is probably correct. If so, the problem then reduces to finding the right steganography program to extract the message. We need to look for any hints in the image as to the program used, and test the image with various programs that hide data in JPEG files (especially ones whose algorithm is similar to what I described).

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 03:26:31 No.4219329 >>4219315 someone mentioned earlier on in the day that the duck might have something to do with the steg tool does http://i.imgur.com/m9sYK.jpg remind you of any steg tools by any chance

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:01:39 No.4219401

>>4218272
this image here not sure what it means or if its has anything to help but ive noticed that there is 16 number letter combinations for both rows and 16 characters corresponding on the right seems far too coincidental to me.
Also that the first numbers in the row corresponding the upper-cased characters are 2 lower than the other row might be something might not.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:04:04 No.4219406

>>4219315

Yeah it definitely looks like the Caesar text is a dead end - stego is next up - I'm trying a tool now.

Could you explain it to a noob? Do I need a specific algorithm or will any stego tool dealing with the jpg format contain the right algorithm anyway?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:06:11 No.4219412 >>4219406 You need to use the same program that was used to hide the data in the image. Every program does it differently.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:21:03 No.4219438 >>4219412 Soo... we hunt through exif data? Has that already been done?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:22:03 No.4219439 www.3301.com leads to www.novagraaf.com so what they are recruiting /b/ now?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:39:12 No.4219470 File: 247 KB, 1366x768, dumbass.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] you fucking idiots. crack the code.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:44:43 No.4219477 >>4219439 You are obviously not intelligent enough to participate

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:50:32 No.4219485 CLAVDIVS CAESAR leads to http://i.imgur.com/m9sYK.jpg However, in latin, V was used where we now use U so by replacing V by U we get http://i.imgvr.com/m9sYK.jpg Coincidence that this is a valid link?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:55:03 No.4219492 also, faggots, read up on your JFIF http://www.jpeg.org/public/jfif.pdf

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 04:57:12 No.4219498 >>4219485 Interesting

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:01:43 No.4219505 >>4219485 Those eyes...

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:01:43 No.4219506 >>4219485 >http://i.imgvr.com/m9sYK.jpg If you click on different areas of this link you are re-directed to different websites. What doest thisn't meanteth

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:04:07 No.4219513 http://i.imgvr.com/4c4c4.jpg about to check this image for some clues

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:18:44 No.4219542 <div class="math">\lim _{ x\to 3301 }{ \int _{ 0 }^{ x } } \frac { sin\left( \frac { 3301 }{ x } \right) }{ x } { dx }[/moot] That should do it.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:24:24 No.4219554 it says this for me: TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk"

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:26:40 No.4219556 >>4219554 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Claudius_Caesar_Augustus_Germanicus

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:36:51 No.4219561 HAY, HAY GUYS, I FOUND THIS STRING AT THE END OF THE IMAGE AND IT SAYS: >TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk" DID ANYBODY ELSE NOTICE THIS WHAT DO I DO HURR?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:45:55 No.4219570 >>4219485 The image is actually a flash player with clickable sections. These are the links I've found so far: http://www.autoshoop.com/ http://www.flash-gear.com/ What is this shit - it can't be related to this puzzle...

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:52:51 No.4219578 The title of http://i.imgvr.com/m9sYK.jpg is http://i.imgvr.com/Z7HrB.jpg, which is the same flash animation. http://i.imgur.com/Z7HrB.jpg is thumbs for some anime.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:53:51 No.4219579
File: 13 KB, 509x503, y-dc-lsb.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>4219315
This idea seems not to have panned out. These are the last bits of the DC components of each 8x8 block, for the Y channel. In the blocks containing text, the # even > # odd pattern no longer holds.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:55:08 No.4219583 File: 12 KB, 509x503, y-dc-orig.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4219579 Also posting a map of the DC coefficients.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:57:24 No.4219586 >>4219570 I think it's a dead end, that picture was made 25/09/2011 so is too old, and I can't see how the puzzle creator would manage to get the "m9sYK" part of the url the same on both imgvr and imgur.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:57:24 No.4219587

>>4219513

That's more like it... I had a look though - nothing seemed out of the ordinary. It's likely the clue lies in a specific clickable section of the flash object.

Anyone know how to capture and reverse engineer the flash object to find the clue?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 05:57:24 No.4219588 File: 25 KB, 1379x829, histogram.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4219579 >>4219583 And here's a histogram. It doesn't seem to show any of the artifacts you'd expect from LSB steganography.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:01:47 No.4219593

>>4219586

except the site called imgVr is a fake - or at least it's a one-off thing built as a possible clue for all intents and purposes...

Current clue sites/areas found
- the duck pic on imgur
- the www.leog.net transparent.gif
- this flash object on the imgVr website

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:03:04 No.4219596 imgvr is no good: http://i.imgvr.com/any_string_goes_here

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:04:11 No.4219597

Just glossed over the thread and I definitely feel like there's more to the

TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk"

than people are giving credit. Think about that, maybe consider things like Roman Numerals, Constellations, the fact that there are 3 names and 4 groups of letters.

Could the letters have something to do with chemistry?

Keep going it's fun to see the exact moment when a puzzle is solved, unless you're watching someone play Portal and they suck ass at it.

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:04:11 No.4219599

>>4219593

What bothers me is how this guy managed to anticipate every action we would take and then set up sites for them.

Something as obscure as the leog site find? Either the original creator posted it here in order to keep us hooked, or it's just a retardedly huge coincidence.

What's with these convenient one page sites just showing up.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:09:44 No.4219601 >>4219596 Actually that makes even more sense - the website only expects visitors using the m9sYK.jpg link and thus it hasn't gone to the trouble of specifying the exact link - basically any string will redirect to the desired page.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:10:17 No.4219602 >>4219599 The creator is obviously doing some samefagging

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:11:17 No.4219604 >>4219599 Can someone fully explain how www.leog.net was discovered? I've read the thread and its seems "leog" was somehow constructed from 3301, I'd like to know how though.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:11:17 No.4219606 I'm not convinced leog.net has anything to do with this puzzle

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:13:20 No.4219611 >>4219601 No, it shows that the website has nothing to do with m9sYK; entering any string in brings you to the same page, and we just happened to try that.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:14:20 No.4219612 >>4219597 Other than the fact that it's the wrong Caesar (Tiberius didn't invent the Caesar cipher, Julius did), there is no way this string says anything more than the decoy duck url.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:16:23 No.4219615 >>4219570 i got redirected to two.drawball.com when i moved my mouse such that eyes in the flash image were in the same location as the 4c4c4.jpg original

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:31:44 No.4219625 >>4219615 i found this link too, but in my case it was only sheer luck.... anything in this drawball worth our time? Because it would take ages to check every part if this picture....

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:37:52 No.4219635 The imgvr thing looks like it came from reddit, so it's definitely unrelated: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/kqouq/my_wife_took_away_my_googly_eyes_after_this/

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:49:10 No.4219647

>>4219635
Great, I'd still like to narrow it down more though. Where did www.leog.net come from?

I think it's a mistake to make jumps of multiple unverified steps, we should have given up with imgvr for the sole reason there was no verification on the image.site that it was related to the puzzle. If you don't do this you could end up literally anywhere on the internet (such as searching drawball, lol).

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 06:53:17 No.4219650

>>4219647

Well... it seems this eludes us still. Where the fuck else do we find clues? Steganography seems to come up without anything as well...

Maybe tomorrow morning the first bunch of guys will be back and can begin looking at this problem afresh, and I can sleep without worrying about this thread 404-ing on me.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 07:17:53 No.4219684 Got redirected to here from the flash image. http://www.flash-gear.com/eye/ It asks to insert an image URL

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 07:32:13 No.4219718 >>4219635 Actually I mentioned that independent of reddit, though it is common knowledge latin uses v instead of u, so two people coming up with it is hardly suprising

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 07:37:19 No.4219727 >>4219650 >>4219588 I check all the image files so far. The 1px gif the duck and the original. None of them have any signs of steg

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 07:48:38 No.4219744

Checking the duck pic on tineye shows this: http://www.frostwaterfowl.com/products/carved_decoys/carved_wooden_decoys.htm
The full Sample Black Duck image at http://www.frostwaterfowl.com/products/carved_decoys/images/blackduck-decoy.jpg has the purple stuff, so it looks like it was a false lead (unless that site is relevant, which I doubt)

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 07:53:44 No.4219754

>>4217623
I think we are all complicating things too much, looking through images, searching them etc. These aren't smart steps, they're the obvious steps. We need to try and think more abstract, I think the duck is a dead end, I don't think it's a bluff. I'm going to spend an hour reading the text of the image to see what I can get from it

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 07:58:53 No.4219763 >>4219744 Everyone else got there hours ago, read the thread, dumbass.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 08:19:23 No.4219787 Ausfag keepin' this alive.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 09:08:36 No.4219856 ......

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 10:06:00 No.4219951 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 11:10:50 No.4220078 Any progress yet? I'm excited-

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 11:42:20 No.4220145 >>4220078 Yeah we found the answer, turns out it was the wife who killed him

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 12:08:38 No.4220224
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I have been staring at the hex all morning, all I see is cells of alpha-numeric data.

Messed with the god damned duck for a while.
I played with the stupid fucking drawball.
Checked out the eyeballs picture.

Looking back at the original possible troll picture, is it normal for images to list characters sequentially? Pic related.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 12:12:12 No.4220233 >>4220224 Perhaps a new thread sumarising everything here is in order, since this thread is autosaging

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 12:24:26 No.4220275

>>4220224
as far as i know, no, an image should literally just be binary (displayed as hexadecimal) which relates to the image, all of that alphabetical shit shouldn't be there, meaning its gotta be something to do with this puzzle,

plus, thats not all, look at all those symbols with accents and shit, they're in order too..

no idea what the fuck it could mean though

Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 12:31:57 No.4220297

>>4220275
Tiberius Claudius Caesar proposed a reform of the Latin alphabet by the addition of three new letters, two of which served the function of the modern letters W and Y. Perhaps this has something to do with the alphabet being placed "
randomly" in the image file?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 12:35:33 No.4220309 >>4220297 could well be, the alphabet in the hex is missing: ABKLMNOPQR dunno if that could mean anything, in the meantime, we need a new thread, this one keeps sageing

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 12:37:33 No.4220310 OP here. This thread isn't on /b/ anymore - we couldn't solve it, you guys have apparently come a fair bit further. Honestly, it is probably not worth your time xD Thanks anyways :)

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 12:53:51 No.4220362 Im sure we could solve it if we were all in the same room with four laptops and eight graphing calculators. Its the slows speed of correspondence which is fucking with out synergy.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 12:54:51 No.4220367 >>4220362 oh god, fucked that up big time, sry, gave up on the thread and decided to get drunk

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 13:32:25 No.4220483 >>4220233 >>4220480 I am sure I left out tons of shit...please fill in as necessary.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 17:00:27 No.4221312 what's weird is I woke up this morning with a 3 day ban for "posting garbage". I lol'd. This thread still alive?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 19:55:54 No.4221312,1 >>4219754 good thinking

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 5, 2012 19:58:44 No.4221312,2 are there any similarities between JFK and emperor Tiberius apart from the fact that they were both leaders of a powerful nation.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Jan 6, 2012 14:38:09 No.4221312,3 I clicked on this image: http://i.imgvr.com/m9sYK.jpg, and it brought me here: http://www.flash-gear.com/index.php?a..

>>	Anonymous Fri, Jan 6, 2012 16:34:15 No.4221312,4 http://six.flash-gear.com/eye/eye.php?c=e&id=468206&k=51458119

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jan 9, 2012 20:17:02 No.4221312,5 Perhaps this will shed some light on the subject: http://www.reddit.com/r/codes/comments/o343d/weird_code_found_on_4chan_maybe_nothing_but_seems/

>>	Anonymous Mon, Jun 29, 2020 14:39:08 No.4221312,6 lmao just run the original 3301 white text image through Outguess

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