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decryption help (arg??)
RedGajin:
working on a decryption challenge for a class, anyone else into this kinda stuff? ive put everything i have so far in this google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1608ycigaretteSrICEBXjFrCsKROHCZNDU4V1vRpRPntMEAdM/edit?usp=sharing
ive yet to do the 'wargame' on that challenge site yet, but that may reveal something idk. theres nothing else that could be a clue on the website the original crypt comes from, the text is just a paragraph in the page source and thats it.
my guess is that the water cactus line might be a key for decrypting the rest of the text, but not sure how
HypnoT:
Tried my best couldn't come up with anything fruitful. My guess is that the deciphered version is some kind of program or image. I tried forwards and backwards ciphers using various rotations and alterations of watercactus but yeah nothing works
Master Matthew²:
If its base 64, and its this long, its probably an image.
http://codebeautify.org/base64-to-image-converter
HypnoT:
--- Quote from: Master Matthew² on May 30, 2017, 02:15:11 PM ---If its base 64, and its this long, its probably an image.
http://codebeautify.org/base64-to-image-converter
--- End quote ---
Yeah I used this to test the most obvious variants, couldn't get anything to work. I thought it would be as easy as reversing the rotated hex, then applying an unknown level of rotations using watercactus as a key
RedGajin:
yeah i tried converting it to an image and a few more variants today but im still getting nothing. p frustrating, ill try the blackbox challenge when i have time and see if that reveals anything. its not even hosted by the same people tho, so itd be odd if there was something there