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[Nighthawk]

Oh, sorry... Not familiar with Facebook.

[Coffeebean]

email from Stephanie Loyola

[Nighthawk]

Ok, so that's a "here's the answer, stupid" email.

Now what do we do with that?

[Coffeebean]

We wait for Omega to see it, figure it out, and tell us what to do with it

[TheOutspoken]

Looking at the solve and our image, I'm still not seeing how we were supposed to know which values to insert for each color.

Oh well, lets hope Omega gets here soon.

EDIT:

The final value is 19 characters long, so I don't think it's a hash of the password. They tend to be 16 or 32 characters long.

[ElGameR]

Would 94H4013d168a44j8 be a nice hash of a password?

If you use our origional bar.jpg theres 13 colors, as there are 13 R's, G's, or B's in the equation. Using these colors and to get values, the above can be found -- It doesn't seem to be a hash.

I also can't see how they got the numeric values they did from the bar.png that was attached -- Either I'm using a faulty tool to get decimal values, or they got numbers from somewhere else.

Can anybody post the decimal values for the RGB channels in the new image?

Finally -- I think the blue hex value of the third swatch in our origional bar.jpg should be 1D instead of 1C. This would make the hash result be:
93H4013d168a44j8 -- Which also doesn't seem to be right.

Edit -- Fixed a typo in the new hash value.

[Coffeebean]

Well, since R has three or four different values, and same for B and G....I don't get it.

What if the final answer 2H19871d101a397j140 is a type of cipher?

[ElGameR]

I took the Red value of the first color swatch, the Green of the second, the Blue of the third, and so on, going by which letter was the next RG or B in the initial code:

R+G-BHR*B-RdB/2+RaG-B-GjB-G



I think the e-mail was a hint to get us started on this code -- not the absolute solution.

[chinga]

Bigger image of our bar.png, if it helps.

[Nighthawk]

I didn't even notice the bar changed.

I can't deal with this right now; in transit. Anyone?

[chinga]

[ElGameR]

[Omega]

[ElGameR]

Time to think out loud, hopefully I'll inspire somebody.

I'm confident that our code is correct, as we use the exact same method as the e-mail indicated.

94H4013d168a44j8

(My computer is giving me the different hex value -- but I blame it on the program I'm using to get the color values, as I get completely whack values for the png)

This must be another code of some type, since it doesn't work as the password in itself.

The code also isn't any known hash, and isn't a hex code (as it contains H and j). It doesn't seem to be base 32 or 64 either.

The H is capitalized, unlike the other letters -- It's special in some way, or just needed to be a much higher ascii value. But if this is the case, why are there only four letters in a 16 char long code?

It seems like there is a lot of waisted numbers in the rest of the bar code color values. Could there be some way to extract more data by using other R/G/B values?

We can divide the 16 characters up into a grid -- which would make a kinda fun puzzle, if it acutally helped at all:

[Coffeebean]

Yes, it was an email (as I said above) and yes, that's the file sent with it.

Omega, I am really not following much of that ...but...if Steph sent it "from Alex's computer" then maybe the PM messed up the first puzzle, and is giving a way to use the new values? (even if you know your solution is right, I think we should use the emailed one. jmo)

I'll email Steph and ask for more help......and see if she has any reason to suspect anyone (Robert? Sophia?) at redloyola as being involved.
I decided to post it on Facebook, Alex's friends group. Capablanca already knows the code is there, he is a codemonkey, so I don't think this will compromise anything. Let's see if he replies, or deletes it.

Anyone else think Alex staged his death? Perhaps to protect his family?


PS: Nice of you to visit your mom now get back to work! lol