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[BoL/SiD] Homepages puzzle

[Twiler]

I think that the lines might be grouped into pairs, and that the letters behind the colons may be significant. If we remove the non-standard characters and every second colon (excluding the one part-way through), we get:

WRMT: SIS BLDG TGTD, 5X5 LOCK. AWAITING AUTHORIZATION FOR
SVTO: FO XLZHHMQM ZAW, ZRIVWZASNY R & O CELHZ QT, AJ, IYN
SDHX: UI 41.2476 MFW -87.8662 : XXCVEQVF ZMQSVCSSD 9145 I
RMVV: UT YHN RI HVFEBQSQ, YFYBXRCD CPY/MDRO FQ AJWBH SYZK

and

ILYC: YHO MFWL TNZE, 2U1 JJHF. KDGGHUSA UHTQSXOCUSMYZ FPR
EWRR: LL NUKCBVWS ZTT, EBDAWHHSRI R & X IGENO BL, CB, PJU
WUCO: AT 37.3019 LON -50.3421 : BISMARCK INTERCEPT 0320 H
ZGQV: TG CSS EV DMRIPKYT, DWWBWXIH QOQ/RPSJ BQ QMYLF YFDK

I thought that a vigenere cipher might be the method used here, but if these are the same piece of text encoded differently, the method used has transformed the numbers.

Anyone know what method might have been used? I think the letters behind the colons might be keys or something.

[waitress#2]

I think the image is stegged too, but that gives us a minimum of 3 passwords to find. One for the steg, one for the Umbrati site and one for the Lightbringer site.
If the illegible part of the text is Viginere then that gives a fourth password to find.

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@Twiler>> That makes a lot of sense. Of course the colons get lost when you dump it into the hex converter. Looking at the BluGen headers and substituting:

WRMT 00:
FF FF FF FF 00:
SVTO 01:
FF FF FF FF 01:
etc.
I also notice that each of the FF lines ends with a string of 11 double zeroes (00) so that gives us four lines of 51 characters, taking the "FF FF FF FF 01:" as line continuations. So the first group of each might be something as prosaic as "LINE 01:".

And yes, the problem is the numbers that stay numbers. Vigenere, Caesar, Enigma, etc. don't do numbers. Fialka machine does, but it doesn't maintain them as numbers. But, if we can get the text...

Of course this all may just be garbled transmission...

[redct]

I don't think FF is anything in ASCII...

[highwind767]

Well, the Umbrati page gives a different part anyway:

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[dakabt]

[highwind767]

It seems that letters are missing from our translations. The first of each line to be exact. For example, the "AT" on line 3 should be "LAT" and the "HO" on line 4 could be "RHO" as both Rho and Xi are Greek Letters.
As for line 1 not so sure. "ISIS" perhaps, to keep with the earlier Eygptian theme?

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@dakabt>> It is really the middle of the Atlantic. Link. Not loving those co-ordinates unless it's a sub's
location or something.

All wiki'd now btw.

@highwind. I was thinking that too. Don't know about ISIS, but what else could it be.Plus Rho and Xi are umbrati team names. They've got the satellite up?

ETA Jessica's blog is back. Link.

ETA2: Yeah, it's Isis. Link.

And on the theory that the missing letters might be the key to Home.jpg I tried I(A-Z)LR plus LAIR and LIAR, but, obviously, no joy. Or maybe it got changed because it WAS a false positive, in which case this entire thread resolves to *waiting*.

[pancito]

And Part 4 from LBS page:

[Twiler]

This looks like an Umbrati message, so G & A could stand for Gamma and Alpha teams. The message is using a lot of abbrevations, and given that these names are longer than Rho and Xi, the sender may well have decided to shorten them.

I now wonder if the characters listed in the server names are relevant. They all start GWSWEB_, but end differently:

Nyx Telecommunications: NYC003
Bluegenics Labs: NSH007
Umbrati: ATL007
Lightbringers: SFO009

Plus, some of these groupings appear on the second line.

[highwind767]

Ever thought that LB could be "Lightbringers" pancito?
Which would give:

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So I'm guessing that's New York, Nashville, Atlanta and San Francisco. That would sorta match up to source locations, making a lot of assumptions.

Yeah, it occured to me that it could just be LightBringers, but the other three lines have a missing letter, so I was looking for consistency. No reason it has to be, of course...

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