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Makzin · Kilroy Joined: 02 Nov 2012 Posts: 1

Can't open the locked file without knowing what to open it with, probably another RGB puzzle THEN we can open the file.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:25 pm

funkm4sta · Kilroy Joined: 05 Nov 2012 Posts: 1

You have to do the same as the last bitmap image, split RGB then, extract grayscale. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get info out of the grayscale.

Mr.Toasty I need your help on this one.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:36 pm

MrToasty

We can separate the fields, but nothing there pops out at me immediately. There seem to be a few places in the image that look like something stretched out in rows that give me a gut feeling that something needs to be rearranged to make them line up, but what exactly that is I don't know. The nature of the color noise is trying to tell me something but I just can't put my finger on it...

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:56 pm

Tsudico · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2012 Posts: 16

The source image is evenly divisible by three, both height and width...I think the separate RGB components need to be extracted, then combined into one image at a reduced size. When I extract the RGB in GIMP, then save out as raw, there appears to be sections with FF in each raw component. I wonder if removing them will give me the image sized appropriately.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:56 pm

Tsudico · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2012 Posts: 16

I was able to remove the FFs but the three files I am left with I can't seem to stitch back together. I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:13 pm

MrToasty

I think I was going on similar lines, at least as far as the separation. Nothing more so far though.

ETA - was wondering if they had extracted the color planes from the original and then concatenated them back into one file but haven't found anything there either.

SpartanI013 · Boot Joined: 28 Feb 2009 Posts: 21

We got a guy from Australia who noticed this picture on his dashboard. He took it with his phone camera. We don't have access to the page he's talking about until Halo 4 is released for us in the US.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qxujkevg2zyqp03/Sec3%20Code%201%20Glyph%201.JPG

Looks like the first piece to the first string. If so, that's 2 left to go for the first string of codes.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:16 pm

Tsudico · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2012 Posts: 16

Here is a link to my recombined scramble file, it contains RGB in sequence...how big is a private key file? Could this be used to decrypt the datanode?

[URL=http://www.mediafire.com/?07c0h32nlyz1ndc]http://www.mediafire.com/?07c0h32nlyz1ndc[/URL]

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:23 pm

MrToasty

So here are just about all the things posted ahead of that being released.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:29 pm

Tsudico · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2012 Posts: 16

In the MP4 referenced is the following frame:

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:44 pm

MrToasty

Yes, link to new page with that mp4 is:
http://download.halowaypoint.com/content/waypoint/assets/images/classified/0000timecapsule/ahf32qhilkjzh-23a2jhlk2-77325ad2-6afg-intrigue.html

Watching that video, not sure how we get to a cleaned up image. You can obviously see the shape in our image.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:05 pm

Tsudico · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2012 Posts: 16

Looks like it is a glyph texture on a sphere. Wonder if the data node is a 3d model format.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:13 pm

Tsudico · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2012 Posts: 16

The scramble image appears to be a frame from the video, doesn't it? Do you have a spectrograph that can zoom into a certain section of a media file?

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:17 pm

MrToasty

Well this was the glyph in the spectrogram.

F with 4 dots, looks to go before 2.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:20 pm