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[LOCKED] [LANDALAN] www.landalan.org possible trailhead?
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Luna131
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If he's urging us to keep going then maybe we have to crack the thing on our own...or what he's sending could have something that helps? Back to the grind Wink
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mongo
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Put "burns his food" into an advanced google search comes back with Jesus and Yeshu, it seems to be a phrase for a heretic.
Have tried the names with vignere and beaufort but got garbage.
Just a thought.

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oxdeltaxo
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Burns his food, is also a reference to pagan sacrifices....Already tried pagan and got nothing. Also tried christ and got nothing.

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mongo
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Have also converted to morse code then to binary, comes back with no hex.

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Mudbrother
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here's the tool I've been using to try to crack the cipher, although with no success so far. It works for vigenere, so if this is a beaufort, I don't think it'll work, although it should I think, at least in terms of key analysis. It would decipher incorrectly even with the correct key though I believe. Would need a beaufort solver for that.

http://www.inforenz.com/software/vigenere_cracker.html

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oxdeltaxo
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I've been using this one, simple java applet style.

http://math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/java/EARLYCIPHERS/Vigenere.html

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Mudbrother
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UPDATE: He burns his food has changed to 'He berns his food...'

and the ciphertext appearing in the source has disappeared.

First stab at research: There is a famous restaurant, the Berns Salonger, in Stockholm, Sweden. So far neither Berns, Berns Salonger, Snerb or Regnolassnerb work as keys for either vigenere or beaufort. Someone may want to double check me on that.

Bern (Berne) is also a city/canton in Switzerland... the WSIS meeting was in Geneva... seems a stretch.

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k.a.n.d.i
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im not sure how releveant this is, but theres a new recording when you call 202 657 5076.

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Russell
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No this was mentioned back on page 12 of the thread. But here is a transcript and a recording for posterity.


Quote:
We have been watching and we will have an assignment for you soon.

We will direct you where to go when the time comes.

There are only a few more tests you must pass.

And your background must be cleared.

We will be in contact.

Message 2.wav
 Description   
 Filesize   2.7MB
    79 Time(s)

Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.


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oxdeltaxo
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Check quickly it may lead to the key.

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Russell
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Ok ignore this post, a trout led me down the wrong path Surprised


But I will leave the recording up anyway as we dont have a copy of it on the thread yet.

Oh and the decoder i use is

http://www.sharewareconnection.com/phone-tone-decoder.htm

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oxdeltaxo
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Trout Noooooooo.....Not trout, anything but trout..... Rolling Eyes

K, I'm about put my hand through the monitor and squish the head of the evil ladalan guys till they give me the key to cipher.

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k.a.n.d.i
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oh sorry for the trout.
i mustve missed that part.
my apologies.

this is my first arg. >.<

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Russell
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No probs, Its a long thread, and these things get missed now and again, its better to raise it and be proven wrong than not to raise it and we miss something. tbh it was a very small footnote that the message had been changed so not a horrific trout, welcome aboard Smile

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grumpyboy
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
it's encoded using a Hebern rotor machine (he burns, he berns... get it?) with the key being "hisfood"

UQPBM FHBLG OMVEN SHNXY JRQHT HGBBD
CSRHO WETIH SOIFP FLWAS UUYWN WXWXG
CKZZP FXR

decrypts to:

good work visit this page between six pm gmt and six thirty pm gmt for your next test


I'm thinking the the next test is the stuff that was found added to the source (but no longer there), here it is again for easy reference:

Quote:
<!-- JFWPJ SMGDB PJDLD LZDFF AXXLW UMHOA
ZWQUQ UNAHZ PKOGR JPEMJ REOP -->


fyi, it doesn't decrypt with the method above...

EDIT: yes it does Razz

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
also encoded using a Hebern rotor machine but with key = heberns

decrypts to:
good you made it here on time head to garbled php for your last test

next page should be: http://www.landalan.org/tests/garbled.php but it's returning 404 for me. http://www.landalan.org/garbled.php doesn't work either. maybe have to wait for the right time... Confused


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