EPTlmfao i was thinking bcus of the dubles and yeah save the long story this is what i had so far. ahahah. still wasnt done yet tho
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wishbones
Canada2600 Posts
lmfao i was thinking bcus of the dubles and yeah save the long story this is what i had so far. ahahah. still wasnt done yet tho | ||
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hoborg
United States430 Posts
On April 16 2010 14:37 R1CH wrote: Revealing that the text was merely a diversion. The only other thing in the post was the banner image. If you opened it up in an image editor and flood filled the background, you would discover a message hinting you onwards. If you then opened the file in an image viewer that supports metadata, EXIF, etc you would see a PNG comment message telling you to PM me on TL with a code to claim your key. You could even open it in Notepad to see that it says "Starcraft II", indicating something inside the image  .Gah! I WAS close then! I knew there was something in there I needed more than notepad to extract. I tried flood-filling, too, but I didn't notice anything... probably stupid anti-aliasing :p Thanks for doing that, it was fun even though I didn't get it. | ||
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FR4CT4L
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ndai
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justiceknight
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Attris
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Licmyobelisk
Philippines3682 Posts
On April 16 2010 14:37 R1CH wrote: Explanation: The text was encoded with base 64. This is apparent from the = at the end, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 for an explanation of base64. However, this would have been too easy, so the output was encoded with a substitution cipher, rot13: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot13 If you decoded that, you would get the following message: "Alas, you have stumbled down the wrong path. Your efforts are not in vain, you just have yet to realize your true goal." Revealing that the text was merely a diversion. The only other thing in the post was the banner image. If you opened it up in an image editor and flood filled the background, you would discover a message hinting you onwards. If you then opened the file in an image viewer that supports metadata, EXIF, etc you would see a PNG comment message telling you to PM me on TL with a code to claim your key. You could even open it in Notepad to see that it says "Starcraft II", indicating something inside the image .The winner in fact did not manage to decode the text, but was looking at the image instead. wow, opened the picture itself using notepad and used ctrl+f to find a "starcraft II" and there it was more detective workz please ^_^ | ||
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tarpman
Canada717 Posts
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DrivE
United States2554 Posts
On April 16 2010 14:47 Licmyobelisk wrote: wow, opened the picture itself using notepad and used ctrl+f to find a "starcraft II" and there it was more detective workz please ^_^ wow, can't believe I was looking at the wrong clue =/ congrats to the winner, you are a genius! | ||
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roronoe
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semantics
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checo
Mexico1364 Posts
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sword_siege
United States624 Posts
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Two_DoWn
United States13684 Posts
On April 16 2010 14:37 R1CH wrote: Explanation: The text was encoded with base 64. This is apparent from the = at the end, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 for an explanation of base64. However, this would have been too easy, so the output was encoded with a substitution cipher, rot13: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot13 If you decoded that, you would get the following message: "Alas, you have stumbled down the wrong path. Your efforts are not in vain, you just have yet to realize your true goal." Revealing that the text was merely a diversion. The only other thing in the post was the banner image. If you opened it up in an image editor and flood filled the background, you would discover a message hinting you onwards. If you then opened the file in an image viewer that supports metadata, EXIF, etc you would see a PNG comment message telling you to PM me on TL with a code to claim your key. You could even open it in Notepad to see that it says "Starcraft II", indicating something inside the image .The winner in fact did not manage to decode the text, but was looking at the image instead. What took longer, you coding the clues or the someone finding the solution? | ||
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wishbones
Canada2600 Posts
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Rah
United States973 Posts
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inReacH
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sutureself
United States192 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10340 Posts
On April 16 2010 14:51 Two_DoWn wrote: What took longer, you coding the clues or the someone finding the solution? Someone finding the solution, the text was 2 lines of PHP and the image was a simple edit with TweakPNG. | ||
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Ballistixz
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