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[theyeti]

Ok, got a bit of new email information for you all.

First, I emailed Alice with a DES incrpytion using the symmetric key we were given, this was the reply:

[jelloarm]

I've got nothing, but I have a long class tonight, so I'm going to write it down and stare at it for a couple hours and see if anything clicks. Maybe music will be my muse...

*Edit to avoid double-post* What's Sean's email account? Because I bet that it's the same format as Bruce's, in which case we can rule out any account name permutations. I assume it's sbrowneSPLATindenticryption.com? In which case we know that we're trying to hack rdunneSPLATindenticryption.com

Also, who else noticed and laughed at the PM slip-up (writing Sean Dunne instead of Browne)? I almost got really excited when I read it, thinking OMGZ, HYPER-CLUE< SEAN BE SON OF BRUCE!! And then reality caught up and tweaked my ear a little bit.

[scottybrobro]

[B Quad]

Heard back from Jennifer:

[Jain]

B Quad, Max is Karen's husband. Here is his MySpace too.

[B Quad]

[jelloarm]

Thought I had Alice's new puzzle beaten, but no such luck... So no one else goes down the same wrong trail as I:

I thought that maybe she was pulling the same tricks as she did in her last riddles, I See = IC, and Is was actually I plural, or eyes. So that seemed like a good start, it's four words, there's two in your head. Sight isn't mentioned up on the list of senses, so I tried eyessight, but that wasn't it. But then I thought maybe she left out punctuation, made it harder on us. Eyes not to look, a lot like hell, you know? Being blind must seem like hell when it first happens, and Eyes not to seem as though were dead, blind eyes are kind of dead.

But blind eyes isn't the answer either.

I'm flat out of gas on this one. Anyone coming to any conclusions from my failed attempts?

[Jain]

[theyeti]

Ok I got a new message from Alice in regards to the symmetric key

[MrToasty]

[scottybrobro]

Yeah you're on the right track, I noticed that too when i flipped it around, which is what Alice is trying to say. Those are the two words we are looking for, now just how to we go about walking it through the gate with Bruce?

[jelloarm]

!!!, I THOUGHT OF LOOK ALIVE!!! It's actually written on the page I was brainstorming on, but I didn't think it was right, and just sort of ignored it.

Curse my lack of trust in my gut instincts.

I think 'walk it through the gate with Bruce' means that it's Robert "Bruce" Dunne's password, his name is on pg. 11 of AE, we just need his log-in name.

[maxstonishing]

i don't think "rdunne" is his username, because it doesn't work with either "lookalive" or "alivelook". sorry, i know that's probably a feeble amount of effort on my part, haha.

[jelloarm]

same thing I did before I gave up... And I did just try different permutations for about ten minutes...

[B Quad]

I've been trying various combinations of rdunne, bdunne, rdunneSPLATidenticryption.com, bdunneSPLATidenticryption.com with lookalive ... no go. I suppose the password could also be Lookalive, LookAlive, LOOKALIVE ... if we take case-sensitivity into account, we may not even quite have the password.