[duke9509]

Just to be certain, I tried using the whole string as the FTP password.
It didn't work.

[godder]

punxtr wrote:

duke9509 wrote: Hey Godder, What were the two letters that were different between the two signals? (I'm out of key-less encryption methods to try, so I'm just looking for any possible clue here) Me: T Him: I Me: U Him: M

Yep, that's it.

[punxtr]

duke9509 wrote:

Hey Godder, What were the two letters that were different between the two signals? (I'm out of key-less encryption methods to try, so I'm just looking for any possible clue here)

Me: T Him: I
Me: U Him: M

[duke9509]

Hey Godder,
What were the two letters that were different between the two signals?
(I'm out of key-less encryption methods to try, so I'm just looking for any possible clue here)

[punxtr]

duke9509 wrote:

New tweet. looks like we don't get to hear from the CEO, after all: Quote: Fred Don has just concluded his PRIVATE presscon, sorry for misinforming you guys about a "public announcement" today. #failtech

I've emailed Dan about it. Dude was breaking down last night, worried over his friend.

[duke9509]

New tweet. looks like we don't get to hear from the CEO, after all:

Quote:

Fred Don has just concluded his PRIVATE presscon, sorry for misinforming you guys about a "public announcement" today. #failtech

[punxtr]

godder wrote:

Wow. Great job Minz. Exactly what I was thinking. There are only two letters different between yours and punxtr's. But why would the same message be sent twice?

Dial tone, morse frequency. Sorry, my file must not have saved properly. Since you got near the same thing as me, we need to find a Caesaer key, or something.

http://www.mediafire.com/?k3so6zwp9980hoc

There is also this theory. We decode the dial tones but only at the morse frequency, around 1000 Hz

[godder]

Wow. Great job Minz. Exactly what I was thinking. There are only two letters different between yours and punxtr's. But why would the same message be sent twice?

[Minz]

I took some time this afternoon, booted up sonic visualizer and transcribed the DTMF tones manually.
The most striking property of the tones was that they were grouped in triplets and seemed to be in the 100-200 range. As we have already seen those in the code for level 5 i put them into an octal decoder :

Code:

111 111 111 126 104 117 116 101 101 101 101 106 103 110 105 124 111 114 116 107 117 102 107 107 130 122 131 125 111 101 123 127 115 123 104 103 107 104 113 111 103 115 113 125 131 102 127 105 115 112 115 132 103 116 112 105 103 120 127 130 126 130

And it gave me :

Code:

IIIVDONAAAAFCHETILNGOBGGXRYUIASWMSDCGDKICMKUYBWEMJMZCNJECPWXVX

Which is practically the same string punxtr had before.

As it seems the string is encryted in some way, we may need to focus our efforts on breaking that.
Maybe keyed Caesar Ciphers or some other substitution cipher can be applied to decypher this..

[godder]

duke9509 wrote:

Minz wrote: The numbers above might be a phonepad cipher, seeing as there are many numbers being repeated. (Numbers 1 and 0 dont give any letters though and the AAA is also kind of suspicious... though that may also have been some wrongly recognized number) Ask Punxtr how he separated out the Morse code. If the phone beeps are important, maybe he can coax those out, too. godofchicken wrote: Also, level 7 is still inaccessible - should we be focusing on the FTP server? Remember, Dan said that the login prompts on levels 7 and up have been disabled. I agree that we need to focus on a) the FTP server, and, if that's really what it is, b) whatever URL the Morse code points to.

I think you are right Minz. I don't think that the converter read it correctly. The morse is somewhere around 500 hz and the tones are around 1000 hz. Anybody got some good equipment available to narrow it down a little more and isolate the dialtones? It looks a lot like octal like before, but doesn't work out correctly. I'm still working on the morse.

[jjjonesy]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the ftp address we're looking at the ftp for the site itself? Should we be looking for another URL? Maybe the URL we're currently trying to decipher?

[duke9509]

Minz wrote:

The numbers above might be a phonepad cipher, seeing as there are many numbers being repeated. (Numbers 1 and 0 dont give any letters though and the AAA is also kind of suspicious... though that may also have been some wrongly recognized number)

Ask Punxtr how he separated out the Morse code. If the phone beeps are important, maybe he can coax those out, too.

godofchicken wrote:

Also, level 7 is still inaccessible - should we be focusing on the FTP server?

Remember, Dan said that the login prompts on levels 7 and up have been disabled. I agree that we need to focus on a) the FTP server, and, if that's really what it is, b) whatever URL the Morse code points to.

[godder]

Great Scott!! No doubt that we are all in so many different time zones that we keep this thing going at all hours. I'm going to have a look at the morse again and see if there is anything that we may have missed in the other files. Maybe Genus has left us a message back there somewhere since we moved on. Has anybody contacted Daniel since we found the mp3?

[godofchicken]

Any new ideas? I have considered whether the telephone codes are playing some kind of tune, perhaps a nursery rhyme to tie into the previous codes?

Also, level 7 is still inaccessible - should we be focusing on the FTP server?

[Minz]

Well the DTMF inside the file decodes to

Code:

1111226361204141711661011AAA1001112021120201120036111310202102202512211111121111113312271711

(using this site http://www.dialabc.com/sound/detect/index.html)

However i'm not sure if it recognizes all the tones correctly as there is a lot of background noise in the file.

The numbers above might be a phonepad cipher, seeing as there are many numbers being repeated. (Numbers 1 and 0 dont give any letters though and the AAA is also kind of suspicious... though that may also have been some wrongly recognized number)