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funkie
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Venezuela9376 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 02:23:28
April 17 2010 02:22 GMT
#101
On April 17 2010 11:21 slained wrote:
It was a team effort


Well, share the key?

Post #100 on the thread btw :D

yay me!
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Ursad0n
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States523 Posts
April 17 2010 02:26 GMT
#102
Dang i wish i knew how to do all that stuff, also i couldn't get anywhere cause telnet is blocked or something on my computer haha
You make it sound like there's a correlation between what should happen and what actually happens. I mean, life is chaotic and it's often unfair. I know it is for me.
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
April 17 2010 02:26 GMT
#103
aw i wasn't on messed a fun little contest
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
April 17 2010 02:30 GMT
#104
On April 17 2010 11:19 Osmoses wrote:
My only solace now is to imagine the techies as fat and socially inept. Now I just have to lose weight and leave the house every once in a while and I can start to restore my self-esteem.


Nono, only MMO gamers are fat. Techies are super-skinny :3 or normal.
:)
Incanus
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada695 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 02:37:18
April 17 2010 02:33 GMT
#105
Lame, I'm on Windows without proper tools and probably messed up somewhere, but:
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Send a PM to R1CH on tl.net with this code: HVRP7

Edited, fixed.
Flash: "Why am I so good?" *sob sob*
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
April 17 2010 02:35 GMT
#106
God, this is cool. So much better to actually have people rely on cleverness, knowledge and ingenuity than the spam/luckfest Blizzard is doing to give out keys.
ModeratorNow I'm distant, dark in this anthrobeat
Enderbantoo
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States465 Posts
April 17 2010 02:40 GMT
#107
Haha guess what i found!

http://pastebin.com/KV5rYd7Y
At the biggest upset of all of bw, Shanghai SPL finals 2011
Julmust
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Sweden4867 Posts
April 17 2010 02:46 GMT
#108
and to think you're only about 15 minutes late!
AdministratorI'm dancing in the moonlight
CruS
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden218 Posts
April 17 2010 02:50 GMT
#109
Incanus

Now that the contest is over, mind sharing how you got there "without the proper tools"?
Whoever fears suffering, is already suffering from what he fears.
Incanus
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada695 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 03:10:08
April 17 2010 03:08 GMT
#110
By the proper tools I mean I had to use an internet hex editor, the crappy Windows shell + telnet, only to proceed to write a simple program in first C then C++ before giving up on both MinGW and Visual Studio Express and writing it in Java. In hindsight, I should have just used something like http://tryruby.org/.

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Anyway, once you get crypt.c and the hex contents of the "key" file, while you don't have the full crypt.c program you can clearly see that the crypt function XORs the text with the key:

unsigned char key[] = "IFNWOUVYZNALWPFORUCYANAKCIZYQKAPZIWYTOMICUAHQIDFYSNFJKDUAJWKFJAUYZJANK";
void crypt (char *text, int length)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < length; i++)
text[i] ^= key[i];
}


Since XOR is commutative and we have the XORed text as well as the original key from crypt.c, you can use a simple program to (de)crypt it:

public class Decrypt {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String key = "IFNWOUVYZNALWPFORUCYANAKCIZYQKAPZIWYTOMICUAHQIDFYSNFJKDUAJWKFJAUYZJANK";
String text = "# 3o4v n5#ww u,7a:-e-,.y&\"58z=?0'o.&'0{hn";
for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++)
System.out.print((char)(text.charAt(i) ^ key.charAt(i)));
System.out.println();
}
}

I didn't get the key btw, someone else got it way before me. Who was the winner?
Flash: "Why am I so good?" *sob sob*
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
April 17 2010 03:12 GMT
#111
lol wow this was pretty sweet
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 03:17:52
April 17 2010 03:12 GMT
#112
eh this is all i got started after it was over haha but still fun to see what you can do
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used
http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/encrypter/index.php
for decryption

Urer vf punyyratr #2 sbe nabgure FP2 orgn xrl. Gb ortva, fvzcyl ragre gur pbqr:
Rot-13
Here is challenge #2 for another SC2 beta key. To begin, simply enter the code:
based off the previous usage of rot-13 by him before

took hidden in the quote could get it if you quoted
var _0x2f70=["\x76\x61\x6C\x75\x65","\x63\x6F\x64\x65","\x67\x65\x74\x45\x6C\x65\x6D\x65\x6E\x74\x42\x79\x49\x64","\x70\x68\x61\x73\x65\x34","\x49\x6E\x76\x61\x6C\x69\x64\x20\x63\x6F\x64\x65\x2E","\x6C\x6F\x63\x61\x74\x69\x6F\x6E","\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3A\x2F\x2F\x77\x77\x77\x2E\x74\x65\x61\x6D\x6C\x69\x71\x75\x69\x64\x2E\x6E\x65\x74\x2F\x73\x74\x61\x66\x66\x2F\x52\x31\x43\x48\x2F","\x2E\x68\x74\x6D\x6C"];function checkStr(){msg=document[_0x2f70[2]](_0x2f70[1])[_0x2f70[0]];if(msg!=_0x2f70[3]){alert(_0x2f70[4]);} else {window[_0x2f70[5]]=_0x2f70[6]+msg+_0x2f70[7];} ;} ;

76 61 6C 75 65 63 6F 64 65 67 65 74 45 6C 65 6D 65 6E 74 42 79 49 64 70 68 61 73 65 34 49 6E 76 61 6C 69 64 20 63 6F 64 65 2E 6C 6F 63 61 74 69 6F 6E 68 74 74 70 3A 2F 2F 77 77 77 2E 74 65 61 6D 6C 69 71 75 69 64 2E 6E 65 74 2F 73 74 61 66 66 2F 52 31 43 48 2F 2E 68 74 6D 6C
into plain hex code and made it into ascii got

"value code get ElementById phase4 Invalid code.location http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/R1CH/.html"
which means go to
http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/R1CH/phase4.html
"Phase 4

I was born in 1969, but it took four years before I was defined. As I grew old, I was not called upon nearly as much as when I was young. My lucky numbers are 15 and 854. I am on the 7th floor, but there are no more above me.

When you have discovered who I am, kindly direct me to teamliquid.net."
seems like a riddle
which i think hints to the ARPANET ie the 1969 part
but turns out to be telnet
from the wiki
"Telnet was developed in 1969 beginning with RFC 15, extended in RFC 854"
I don't have a telnet client installed on windows 7 so i'll just stop there someone else can try to finsih it althoguh i am curiouse how many more steps there are

people did some stuff on it and got 2 bits of info
A C file crypt.c
"unsigned char key[] = "IFNWOUVYZNALWPFORUCYANAKCIZYQKAPZIWYTOMICUAHQIDFYSNFJKDUAJWKFJAUYZJANK";

void crypt (char *text, int length)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < length; i++)
text[i] ^= key[i];
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
puts ("TSFS OTP Se@ýÿÿPÿu
ÿ5±GùÿÿP…€õÿÿP… ýÿÿPèº�ÿ5¤GÝE§„™�×™�×™�×ö;Í×›�×ö;Â×- Fellow Terrans,
- I come to you in the wake of recent events to issue a call to reason.
- Let no human deny the perils of our time
- While we battle one another,
- divided be the petty strife of our common history
- The tide of greater conflict is turning against us.
- Threatening to destroy all that we have accomplished.
- It is time for us as nations and as individuals
- to set aside our long-standing feuds and unite.
- The tides of an unwinnable war are upon us
- and we must seek refuge on higher ground
- lest we be swept away by the flood.
- The Confederacy is no more;
- whatever semblance of unity and protection it once provided is a phantom...a memory.
- With our enemies left unchecked, who will you turn to for protection?
- The devastation wrought by the alien invaders is self-evident.
- We have seen our homes and villages destroyed by the calculated blows of the Protoss.
- We have seen first hand our friends and loved ones consumed by the nightmarish Zerg.
- Unprecedented and unimaginable though they may be, these are the signs of our time.
- The time has come my fellow Terrans to rally to a new banner
- In unity lies strength; already many of the dissident factions have joined us
- Out of the many we shall forge an indivisible whole capitulating only to a single throne.
- And from that throne I shall watch over you.
- From this day forward let no human make war upon any other human,
- Let no Terran agency conspire against this new beginning.
- And let no man consort with alien powers...
- and to all the enemies of humanity seek not to bar our way,
- For we shall win through, no matter the cost."

and w.e this is

"0x0000 : 1A 23 20 33 6F 34 76 09 17 6E 35 23 77 02 77 0C : .#.3o4v..n5#w.w.
0x0010 : 1A 75 2C 37 61 3A 2D 65 2D 2C 2E 79 26 22 35 38 : .u,7a:-e-,.y&"58
0x0020 : 7A 3D 3F 30 27 6F 2E 26 27 30 7B 68 19 1F 16 16 : z=?0'o.&'0{h....
0x0030 : 6E 0A : n."

all i can tell from that is that r1ch made an array or string w.e it's C i don't know it with
IFNWOUVYZNALWPFORUCYANAKCIZYQKAPZIWYTOMICUAHQIDFYSNFJKDUAJWKFJAUYZJANK in it then intilized it in void crypt ionno what ^= does not fimilar with that sort of syntax or C for that manner lol
IFNWOUVYZNALWPFORUCYANAKCIZYQKAPZIWYTOMICUAHQIDFYSNFJKDUAJWKFJAUYZJANK is not rot-13 probably is an cypher used in main either way doesn't look like a complete program



im lost looks like code that i don't know about lol but frankly the bottom half doesn't look like c has + in areas where i'd think , would go
var _0x2f70=[...];

function checkStr()
{
msg=document[_0x2f70[2]](_0x2f70[1])[_0x2f70[0]];
if(msg!=_0x2f70[3])
{
alert(_0x2f70[4]);
}
else {window[_0x2f70[5]]=_0x2f70[6]+msg+_0x2f70[7];} ;
};
only thing i can get from 0x0030, 0x2f70 etc is that they are probably memory locations lol but what to do with that ionno
programming is beyond my normal experience haha
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 03:27:10
April 17 2010 03:26 GMT
#113
real happy for whoever got the key, this was fun ^_^
was doing it just for fun since i don't need a key -- i would love if r1ch posted more of these random things.
i must say though i probably went in the most roundabout way of solving this, although basically in the same direction
+ Show Spoiler +

http://25yearsofprogramming.com/fun/ciphers.htm

so i pasted

Uryyb GY!

Urer vf punyyratr #2 sbe nabgure FP2 orgn xrl. Gb ortva, fvzcyl ragre gur pbqr:

picked start with ETAION and got

IEAAO TA!

IERE LH DINAAEYGE .2 SOR NYOTIER HD2 BETN KEV. TO BEGLY, HLZCAV EYTER TIE DOWE:


so i was like wtf? oh wait.. HD2 BETN KEV almost kinda looks like SC2 beta key..

so did swaps from there to get the full message, not too difficult

so then i was kinda stuck.. but decided to viewsource, ctrl+f'd for "pbqr", saw checkStr, ctrl+f'd for that, saw the array, bada-bing.
then i realize later i could've just pressed quote on the post, lolol.

then got stuck until someone mentioned telnet, played around a bit with it, but aside from ls cd and help didn't get too far until someone mentioned dump. once i saw the ^= operator in the crypt function, it all made sense, and just had to wait several minutes for someone to claim the key ^_^

during the time i was dusting off my old dev c++ lol. totally forgot how to use the damn thing and windows' CLI makes me cringe.. one of the few things i like about *nix is their CLI.

anyway once i finally remembered how to compile and stuff with dev c++, 'twas allright, went to play gunz

actually i remember the first time i fucked up the code, and had my computer emit very loud beeps for the duration of the printout rofl
no idea what that was all about..
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
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milo
Profile Joined February 2010
116 Posts
April 17 2010 03:29 GMT
#114
I keep missing out on these contests, but it's consolation enough knowing I'd never figure it out in time.
Weedman
Profile Joined April 2010
United States65 Posts
April 17 2010 08:13 GMT
#115
My mind is blown
Smoke it!
kiero
Profile Joined May 2007
Canada136 Posts
April 17 2010 12:40 GMT
#116
This was awesome. Could we get an explanation for those of us who want to learn? =)
Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8031 Posts
April 17 2010 12:50 GMT
#117
On April 17 2010 21:40 kiero wrote:
This was awesome. Could we get an explanation for those of us who want to learn? =)

There's explanations all over this thread... =/
Liquipedia
Osmoses
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Sweden5302 Posts
April 17 2010 17:29 GMT
#118
Only thing I don't get is how you got the key from arcturus' speech.
Excuse me hun, but what is your name? Vivian? I woke up next to you naked and, uh, did we, um?
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
April 17 2010 17:46 GMT
#119
My guess is that C file which is a source file written in c decrypts another piece of data after a small revision to it. ionno much about programming so another person can confirm it.
tarpman
Profile Joined February 2009
Canada719 Posts
April 17 2010 19:43 GMT
#120
On April 18 2010 02:29 Osmoses wrote:
Only thing I don't get is how you got the key from arcturus' speech.


you don't. the ciphertext is in a different file.
Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time.
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