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MrToasty

Blog update with images too.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:43 am

Bartock

The comment seems to suggest the first picture may be stegged. Anyone able to work on it? Im going to give it a shot, but I'm not that good with it yet.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:48 am

MrToasty

Checked it for Camouflage and it's not that.

Stegdetect gives an error - "Invalid JPEG file structure: SOS before SOF"

ETA - found a message inside.

natas

Image 1 is a .jpg and 2,3,4 are .bmp. Any significance in that?

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:52 am

MrToasty

FYI - mozaiq has a steg method:
http://mozaiq.org/encrypt/

ETA - mozaiq only takes JPEGs or PNGs. image1.jpg was rejected.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:00 am

pancito

They're coming up as .png for me. Wrong file uploaded?

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:15 pm

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MrToasty

Yep, PNGs now.

image2 text

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:43 pm

pancito

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:19 pm

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natas

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**Posted:** Thu May 01, 2008 1:20 am

pancito

Messed around with this a bit. Mozaiq will accept #s as a password. The password isn't 19 April or 30 April. When did the gold go into hiding?

**Posted:** Thu May 01, 2008 2:56 am

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MrToasty

OK, got the hidden message in image3.png.

**Posted:** Fri May 02, 2008 3:15 am

pancito

Good find Toasty. (You must hear that a lot). Would you believe I did, in this order, 1945, 1941, 1942, 1943, oh well, give up. Embarassed

(Note to self... Be thorough.)

So far each image has given the key to unlock the next one...no real content yet. So, the key to the code should be in the previous message...but it ain't jumpin' out at me. I assume the Xs were added after encryption to pad. It's not Fialka (drat!) and if it's Enigma I don't see a key.

**Posted:** Fri May 02, 2008 4:04 am

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kosmopol

Cool Toasty! I have a feeling, I've seen somewhere this kind of coding...

**Posted:** Fri May 02, 2008 5:15 am

amandel

Ditto--My Mr.Toasty awe is boundless(rest of y'all ain't too shabby also)

I've only seen that sort of coding in a (game thus fake) QKD transmission Is it possible that we must search for an actual Enigma key and/or device?

Thinking that MXXXX might be an uncoded date (1040). That's the date of the Norman Conquest and could relate to a line in the first clue: "Another night in Normandy goes". Yaha,I do know 40 is XL in Roman Numerals. Just a stone turning post.. Rolling Eyes

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**Posted:** Fri May 02, 2008 11:29 am

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pancito

Breaking into groups of five is very common (RL) because it hides word length and takes that tool out of the breaker's kit. From wiki:

**Posted:** Fri May 02, 2008 12:21 pm

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