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FractalP · Decorated Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Posts: 258

Oddly enough, there are 14 separate hashes, and the 8th and 9th are identical. Hmm.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:18 am

Scratch · Veteran Joined: 17 May 2010 Posts: 91

**Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:26 am

FractalP · Decorated Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Posts: 258

I only tested the first hash, but it's neither a single digit nor a letter.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:39 am

MrToasty

**Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:42 am

MrToasty

A thought - it looks like the hashes may be a set (with the one duplicate possibly being copy-paste mistake). We have all 5 possible haval bit-lengths represented. If we assume that each group of 5 represents one of the 3 numbers of rounds you can choose to generate a hash, then we may be looking at all of the possible hashes for one phrase. Again this assumes that the duplicate was unintentional. Further I would assume the phrase is related to the poem from Alice in Wonderland. Not quite sure how to proceed with this though.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:38 am

vapor

I've been messing with this too though I'm not all that accustomed to cracking hashes. If what MrToasty is describing is correct then it should make it much much easier. If we crack one then we convert the plaintext using other the other methods to try and find a match.

From what I can tell there are about five methods to cracking hashes; preliminary attacks, brute force attacks, mask attacks, dictionary attacks, rainbow tables attacks.

I did a preliminary attack and it isn't a common word or password. It is likely a phrase or an uncommon word.

I also tried converting a few possible phrases like "handshake cannot be trusted" and "wonderland" and "looking glass".

When it came to dictionary attacks and rainbow tables I got quickly lost and gave up. I'm hoping someone has more experience or knows of some software. I've founf a few programs but I'm not at all sure if I'm using them correctly.

http://fsumfe.sourceforge.net/
http://www.insidepro.com/eng/passwordspro.shtml#200
http://hashkiller.com

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:28 am

The Barmaid

How is this an ARG? Seems like it's shaping up to just be a puzzle mag.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:51 am

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VeritasK · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2010 Posts: 98

when we see a domino and then a - U

If the U means to convert to unicode then...

127047 U+1F047

For You makes more sense though.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:29 am

Ghadhean · Boot Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 28 Location: OlyWa

http://twitter.com/handshakemag

I keep getting an error message trying to view the pdf...

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:20 pm

emato

Hash - MD2

MrToasty

Re: Hash - MD2

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:16 pm

emato

Re: Hash - MD2

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:40 am

MrToasty

No worries, just thought I was going crazy for a minute. Very Happy

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:52 am