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[SOLVED] CG's zip from Earthcross
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jbd
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[SOLVED] CG's zip from Earthcross

The zip file has a text file and two more zip files. They cracked rather easily to be:

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zeitgeist


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heidegger


It's more puzzle stuff, though.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:11 pm
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enaxor
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One of the files, written in notepad titled "invlist" is an acrostic.


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count outs, under rate, insured, estimates, returns=courier


Don't know what the numbers are though.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:23 pm
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nivra
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Actual Files for completeness

Here are the unzipped files, and their relationships:

z567877.zip opens up into:
z567877/deldoc.txt
z567877/z334286.zip
z567877/z963312.zip

unzip the last two zips(using jbd's crackz):

z567877/z334286.zip -->
z567877/6652378.jpg
z567877/z963312.zip -->
z567877/invlist.txt

FINAL Directory contents:

z567877/deldoc.txt
z567877/z334286.zip
z567877/z963312.zip
z567877/6652378.jpg
z567877/invlist.txt
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6652378.jpg

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nhansard
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Using the numbers at the bottom of the deldoc.txt as indexes into the list, i created a new list (that may or may not be usefull). I had hoped that the first letters would spell something interesting, but it does not appear to be the case. Someone else may want to take a peek to see if something jumps out at you.
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jbd
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I haven't been able to fix the jpg yet (does it open in Photoshop? I don't have a copy) but I sent the file to myself on gmail and it gets a thumbnail. The top says "Coachella Afterparty" and there's a map with a "Main Tent", a "Lounge" a "Bar" a "Stage", and some other things I can't see too well.

EDIT: That's what I get for being off the IRC channel, j5 already sent the fixed file.

http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/ian/secret/mailinbox/0071.html

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kypassat
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locale found?

think we may have found the next locale over at stolena3.com

http://forum.stolena3.com/index.php?showtopic=40

still working on the decode from the txt file.


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rowan
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About the deldoc text:

Did some frequency analysis on this. There are 95 seperate addresses listed. In the numbers at the bottom, the numbers go from 0-95. No number is repeated more than once, except for 0 (which is repeated five times).

I made a slightly different reordinger than nhansard's. For mine, I removed all of the extra spacing in the addresses, and started numbering from 1. Still can't see anything jumping out at me, but my list doesn't omit or duplicate any of the addresses.
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jbd
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SMG3er on stolena3 got the Heidegger solve:

http://forum.stolena3.com/index.php?showtopic=40&st=0&#entry250

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jbd
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By the way, I'm pretty sure "Courier" refers to the font.

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nhansard
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damn you guys are good. At least i was looking in the right direction even if i didn't quite find it. Kick ass!

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nhansard
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jbd wrote:
By the way, I'm pretty sure "Courier" refers to the font.


By putting invlist.txt into courier font in word, an nice pattern comes up. I'm not quite sure what to do with the resulting information. It's not hex as there are letters in there that aren't in the hex alphabet. Any ideas?
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SMG3er
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nhansard wrote:
jbd wrote:
By the way, I'm pretty sure "Courier" refers to the font.


By putting invlist.txt into courier font in word, an nice pattern comes up. I'm not quite sure what to do with the resulting information. It's not hex as there are letters in there that aren't in the hex alphabet. Any ideas?


Yeah, I did that and what you do is remove all the 0s. The pattern that forms by the remaining letters is - ZEITGEIST.

So either ZEITGEIST is the final solve, or the numbers/letters that remain lead to a final solve.

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I'll add a screen grab of it.
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You definitely deserve some of Rowan's cookies, SMG3er. Good job.

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nhansard
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damn did you go and solve _both_ puzzles today?

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missphinx wrote:
You definitely deserve some of Rowan's cookies, SMG3er. Good job.


I don't know if the new food pyramid will allow me to have them. Haha. Laughing

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