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Yeah I tried adding the values of the two strings together to see if they made a single new alphabet string....nope

~cem

[zounds]

Email to:

[MageSteff]

Re: First Contact

[MageSteff]

Re: Email to:

[Mosz0rz]

The e-mail on mine is from "t jones" and to "caretaker@blackvault.com"

Huh.

Anyway, I did analysis on the puzzle and this is what I came up with:

The index of coincidence on the block of text is .386. The index for letters randomly generated equals .385. So, it's unlikely that this is a substitution cipher, but rather randomly generated.

I also tried ASCII shift on the bottom code, but it didn't work out to anything.

[Varin]

[natehawthorne2002]

Double letters

[Nyght_Shyft]

Re: Double letters

[Nyght_Shyft]

I opened up the login.html, left the login field blank, and entered the characters at the bottom of the earn.txt (both fields combined, 50 characters: y"&,@l%\v;>!f)q$}i*t+#^/ba?=s^-_\@d#&,o(._%g*@:"/c).

I tired three separate times, consecutively, and ended up at cfrg.us each time. I thought i was onto something, but on the 4th try i ended up elsewhere.

Then i tried the name "caretaker@blackvault.com" and used the same password.. I ended up at cfrg.us twice in a row. On the third try, it went to a different site.

Granted, this could have been random.. but could it have possibly meant something?

I also tried using the bottom text and the long string at the top, using each as password and as login.. no luck. Did the same thing for the login at CFRG.us ..no go. Also tried at coyotedispatch. Still.. nothing.

From the way i see it, we've got two routes to solving this: Either the text at the bottom is the key for the garbage at the top.. coordinates (x,y, etc) for putting the code (when in a grid) in order and then decrypting it.. or else the stuff at the top is useless and the bottom is not code, but something we need to use elsewhere.

So, i suppose those good at cracking code try the decryption route. Use that grid we made up above and the stuff at the bottom, after converted to numbers (ASCII), used as a grid key.

And those of us who lack these sorts of skills look elsewhere. Because there's a lot more to look at. We can't underestimate this game.

Any thoughts?

[ramiles]

My 2 Cents

[Sin Vraal]

Bright Idea[r]s

[dishboy]

Re: Bright Idea[r]s

[argus]

Re: Bright Idea[r]s

[teeman11]

here an excel sheet with the Ascii, hex, oct, and bin equivalents for each symbol.

I have worked it a few ways and so far nothing. I tried ad and subtracting the two rows and I got nothing from that either.

[sauceykat]