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[stacey]

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[waitress#2]

Kellie's login

[stacey]

Aha! I was able to log into Kellie's account. Quite a bit more is there:

[Gupfee]

[stacey]

You tried it on the server I mentioned? It doesn't work on any of the others. Just to be sure I posted the information correctly, I just logged out and back in again.

[waitress#2]

Login error

[stacey]

There may be more than one puzzle here. There's reason to think we might be able to decipher Kellie's security encryption key with Triton Enterprises. There's also something going on with Kellie trying to pass along encrypted information to/from an interloper in the system calling him/herself "Truth" - Kellie thinks this is Van Mantra.

That text string looks like a PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption signature, as used in Triton's instant messenger program. Seems to me it was from Kellie to Truth but never got sent.

This image is related to Kellie's visual encryption key with Triton:


She sent it to John as an attachment when she asked for his help. He warned her not to send the key to anyone via email. He advised her to decode it with the "starting key" or "lead key" she was supposed to have gotten verbally. This should have been in the form of a letter, ex: g.

[waitress#2]

Encryption Key

[stacey]

I'm guessing the visual key is a bunch of symbols for the 26 letters and the numbers 0-9. We don't have anything to decode with them, though.

As for figuring out the other server names...

I've worked with network groups before. Your typical server farm starts off with a theme and sticks as closely to it as possible. So if you have three servers named after mythical nereids, you're going to continue using nereid names as you add servers. So I went to Wikipedia's nereid entry and plugged a bunch of the listed names in front of nercomm.net.

Here's what's bugging me. Kellie can no longer make so much as an email rough draft, and instant messaging is cut off as well. Assuming she completes work for her father and/or Truth, how will she let anybody know?

[waitress#2]

I think Kellie is probably as MIA as John is now (and who knows about Van Mantra).. I tried emailing to the other employees we had names for, Cleo Williams, Allen Feinman and John Wainright but they all bounced back.

[Gupfee]

Aha! Finally got in--my cut and paste was a little sloppy.

Has anyone emailed the code (key?) from Kellie's trash message to Van? If he never got it, that seems to me the logical thing to do (to help him.)

[stacey]

Yeah, I got the same form response for him I've seen since August 1st. I suppose he might respond later, but I kinda doubt it.

I also tried various combinations of "truth" or "unknown" at Nercomm and Triton. But those just bounce back.

[waitress#2]

Encryption Key

[stacey]

I dunno that math skills per se are what's in order here. I get the feeling I'm missing something. Either I'm literally waiting for an update or else there's something I've been overlooking.

So here's a rundown of the other number-letter variables that stand a chance of being related to the overall puzzle:

Cleo Williams: CW611723, cleo.williams@TE5192
John Wainwright : JW813414, john.wainright@TR5119
Allen Feinman: AF913412, allen.feinman@NC1774
Archibald Graham - archibald.graham@NC1912, then archibald.graham@DRC8112

R3C11-24
Van Mantra passed this code to Kellie Graham along with an encrypted file that has since been removed from the email by Corporate Security.

From the Ethan Haas journal pages:
417stjneh - Caph
6ld9102 - Gamma Cass
279fh7691 - Schedar
kbfm314008 - Ruchbah #1
u458402w - Ruchbah #2

Finally, it seems the header for the Nercomm site contains binary code. But it's hard to read and seems to fade out at the right edge, so I dunno.

[Zaecus]

The image Kellie sent over email looks to me like an overlay key, but the question is 'overlay of what?'

It could be a keyboard, keypad, that block of letters and numbers she emailed to Van, or I could be way off on how it works, but none of those nine dot squares appear to repeat.