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[RebusPrime]

Hi Guys,
Been watching this topic (amongst others) for a while but not really had much to contribute, so here goes with the first post....

Been looking for possible eight letter keywords along the line of Hercules, and during my trawling came up with Ganymede as a possible. Unfortunately I cant seem to get any of the apps to run on my pc or I would have checked myself.

Hope this might be worth a try

[Langley Moor]

No luck unfortunately, tried Ganymede, ganymede and GANYMEDE, nothing came back though. Sorry!

[doublecross]

How about Heracles, the Greek for Hercules?

[uneasyjd]

Or maybe Herakles? (Since there's no 'C' in the Greek alphabet, although I think a strict transliteration would actually be 'Iraklis'.)

Someone might as well give 'Pasiphae' a go - she was the queen of Crete who mated with the Cretan Bull (captured in the 7th Labour) to produce the Minotaur. I know it's grasping at straws, but hey, it's both Herakles- and cattle-related...

[Langley Moor]

Done, done and done.... have tried:

Heracles
heracles
HERACLES
Herakles
herakles
HERAKLES
Pasiphae
pasiphae
PASIPHAE

All for naught. Sorry guys!

[RebusPrime]

How about *Minotaur*? Fits both Hercules and (loosely) the Cows requirement, and it's eight letters. Doesn't really fit in with the thirteenth labour though.

On a slight tangent, a 13th labour is generally a task requiring a Herculean effort to complete (much like this card) and not necessarily directly related to Hercules himself. Could we be getting too focused on the Hercules aspect of the title?

[Langley Moor]

As per request, tried Minotaur, minotaur and MINOTAUR - nope, nope and nope, sorry!

[Jaeneas]

Hi

I've been running Walther's app, the mark 2.

Covered BAAAAAA0 to BAAEUKz0.

Nothing, nada, nil.

TTFN

[c1023]

WARNING - Stop using the new features of this build as I've found a major bug! The correct keys are not being tested.

I can't rebuild until I get home this evening, but if anyone wants to rebuild, and post it here the error is:

rccrypt.c line 848 should change from:
snprintf(keyString, 17, "%016llX", currentKey);
to:
snprintf(keyString, 17, "%016llX", nKey);

Sorry guys.



I've made a few changes to the code posted by BriEnigma. The .exe was built it using cygwin, so you will need the cygwin.dll. The source for the file I changed is in the zip too.

This modification allows a format string to specify which keys are checked.


USAGE
rccrypt.exe {starting key} {count}
rccrypt.exe {starting key} {final key} {format}
WHERE:
"starting key" is either a 16 digit hex number, an 8 character string, or -r for random
"count" is the number of consecutive keys to try
"final key" is either a 16 digit hex number, an 8 character or less string (If final key is used, "starting" cannot be -r)
"format" is an 8 character string where:
'a' a-z
'A' A-Z
'#' 0-9
'n' a-z 0-9
'N' A-Z 0-9
'L' a-z A-Z
'M' a-z A-Z 0-9
's' Space
' ' /0

So to check all 5 character lower case passwords use:
rccrypt.exe 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff " aaaaa"

For upper case:
rccrypt.exe 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff " AAAAA"

For title case:
rccrypt.exe 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff " Aaaaa"

Lower case and title case can be checked togerther using:
rccrypt.exe 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff " Laaaa"

# can be used for just numbers:
##Laaaaaa would match 13Labour, or 13labour, but not hercules

Other letters represent other combinations of upper and lower case, or numbers.

's' is for a space, and ' ' is for the null character.

To split the work up into chunks, a Start and Final key can be specified. To find all lowercase keys between 'efaaaaaa' and 'ehzzzzzz' use:
rccrypt.exe efaaaaaa ehzzzzzz aaaaaaaa

[TeamMfM]

Another lead

[neuromancer]

[c1023]

I've had a thought on another line of attack we can use on this puzzle.

This card is signed by Kurt, so maybe we should think of passwords he may use. E.g his friends. family or anything else we know about him. His blog is calld 'Path of least time', so maybe the password could be 'ShortCut'. I'm at work, so I cant' try this until later.

[TeamMfM]

hmmmm

[locqust]

Its a possibility that the hexcode for purple could be used in the decrypt someway. I have no idea how!

But in case anyone could think of a way how here are the closest hexcodes to the colour on the card,

660066, 990099, CC33FF, CC00FF, CC33CC

BTW these are taken off photoshop, and I've found that sometimes web browsers don't read photoshop hexcodes well. So the official W3C hexcodes may be needed, which I have in a book buried somewhere!

[Langley Moor]

Have just tried:

KurtKurt, kurtkurt, Kurtkurt, KURTKURT (worth a trry )

ShortCut, Shortcut, shortcut, SHORTCUT

The six digit colour codes padded with '0x' at the front - only way I could think of to do it.