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[PUZZLE] http://vaporlofts.com/floor1c.jpg (strings)
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Abraxas
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 		[PUZZLE] http://vaporlofts.com/floor1c.jpg (strings)
The two strings as transcripted by RollingStone:

(top line)
tePsr3n56ttBm375hdslwEIQN6kFncTFXh/asvpEXGgmH68Txg==

(bottom line)
ZGMg+6jKVbF/sYgYmHs+XVg4GNdBVumtlpu38xfc45XUvePC45j8Q3oCBjKHz+leolU6tOzCgkubDHGqMaXQwg==

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:43 am
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vixen
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 		Hi! I am new to this also, but have gone through most of the information that has been gathered already.
Have these 2 lines been decoded yet? I am not able to find it on the forum if they have been.
If not, I think it may be encoded in base64, but it doesn't look like ASCII encoded in base64.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:30 pm
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Corwin
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 		Kind of a lurker here, but a thought occured to me-- The strings are probably just encrypted somehow, but they look to me almost like the end of a URL for a forum page. There aren't any capitalized letters usually, but none-the-less.

Just a thought.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:10 am
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Abraxas
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 		Welcome, vixen!
No, they have not. That's what this thread is for. Wink And the puzzle index thread would have been updated.
But it was suggested there that it's base64 , I think. Haven't looked into any of that myself, yet.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:35 pm
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pantingpants
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 		this has got to be Base64, no?

"Base64 only uses 6 bits (corresponding to 2^6 = 64 characters) to ensure encoded data is printable and humanly readable. None of the special characters available in ASCII are used. The 64 characters (hence the name Base64) are 10 digits, 26 lowercase characters, 26 uppercase characters as well as '+' and '/'...The Base64 padding character is '='. Naturally, it can only ever appear at the end of encoded data." (linky)

I took the first 4 characters of the string and played around with them a bit...

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Original: tePs
-> Base64: 45 30 15 44
-> binary: 101101 011110 001111 101100
-> 8-bit: 10110101 11100011 11101100
-> dec: 181 227 236


And now I'm stuck. 181 227 236 are too high to convert to ASCII regular characters, from my understanding.

I was feeling feisty and subtracted 64 from each of those numbers and got:
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117 163 172
O s z


Which was promising. However I repeated these actions with the second set of 4 characters (r3n5) and got
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-> base64: 43 55 39 57
-> binary: 101011 110111 100111 111001
-> 8-bit: 10101111 01111001 11111001
-> dec: 175 121 249
-> -64: 111 057 185


These however are random symbols so I think I am on the wrong track. Also, my eyes are bleeding.

Anyone want to take a stab at this?

PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:35 pm
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Caspian
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 		baby step
Not a revelation, I'm sure, but if we follow the theory that it's Base64, when the lines are run through a Base64 decoder we get:

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Top line:
yA~%B7^ڲD\h&

Bottom line:
dc 2l_b&Ճtni1}9]K<.97 c(|zTӳ .l1ƨƗC


I've taken these strings and converted them to binary and tried to play with the number of bits per character to no avail. I've converted them to hex to see if any pattern exists. None that I see anyway. Can anyone else think of anything to do with these strings? The original text is just screaming Base64, but perhaps that's intentional and false.

Tip: If you're going to try something with the decrypted bottom string, use an decrypt the original and use that instead of copying it from this post. Some of the characters aren't copying properly.

Like I said, I'm sure it's not a huge revelation, but I didn't see the decrypted strings posted here anywhere.

EDIT: The strings are actually probably encoded using Twofish encryption, not Base64. Both use alphanumerics, +, and / with one or two = at the end for padding. Considering /paris/twofish.html and other related pages, I would guess it to be Twofish. However, this would require an encryption key - a password, more or less.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:17 pm
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Abraxas
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 		Hm, I'm not sure...I have reason to believe these strings are not encrypted with base64 or a hash at all and they are actually just another ROT-ed version of the Gibberish Key (rowan72 TM).
There's another longer string hidden in floorplans.html and we suppose it's encrypted with the Algorithm-Chaining-Hash-method, aren't we?
If so, there must be some instructions on how to crack the darned thing. The picture could seen as being connected to that page. And probably those strings tell us about the encryption method.

Or perhaps it does contain the information to crack the one on floorplans.html, but it's encrypted in yet another way...

PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:21 pm
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rowan
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Abraxas wrote:
Hm, I'm not sure...I have reason to believe these strings are not encrypted with base64 or a hash at all and they are actually just another ROT-ed version of the Gibberish Key (rowan72 TM).

If they are in the Gibberish Key, they use a lot of characters that I do not have any information on.

Code:
(top line)
tePsr3n56ttBm375hdslwEIQN6kFncTFXh/asvpEXGgmH68Txg==
[wu???fVW[[ke?XV,??r
b?]KWqvf-?vU,os? ZwU??e?W.?g???

(bottom line)
ZGMg+6jKVbF/sYgYmHs+XVg4GNdBVumtlpu38xfc45XUvePC45j8Q3oCBjKHz+leolU6tOzCgkubDHGqMaXQwg==
??J?AWd?Stvo????e??AUS???K?kS?e[rZ??.gx-?VU? wul?Vd.]?Ylkd??iArwYrAW[Lil?q?ta???JsU]
??? 

The ?s are all characters that I do not have info on. The w's are linebreaks, which is why the "translated" code spans 2 lines. As you can see, almost half of what we have is still untranslated after running it through the Gibberish Key, so I'm seriously doubting if it's that.
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mapmaker
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 		May I add that the transcription might be wrong? I don't know about the rest of you, but I seriously can't tell whether or not the vertical-line characters are supposed to be an 'l' or an 'I'.

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 		Good point.

Great choice of font, there, Vapor.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:45 am
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mapmaker
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 		The typeface is Eurostyle, if anyone was wondering, and yes, the lowercase L and the uppercase I are pretty much indistinguishable.

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