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SOLVED: Second email from Caretaker

**Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:41 am

MageSteff

Secon E-mail puzzle

**Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:44 am

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dishboy

Re: Secon E-mail puzzle

**Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:51 am

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EricL1st · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 43

Perhaps the name of the page "pad" refers to the One-Time Pad encryption scheme in which case we would should try to transpose each letter in perhaps the Earn file using these numbers.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:53 pm

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EricL1st · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 43

Just noticed this. The background of the page http://cfrg.us/mirror/pad.html is actually a white jpeg image located at http://cfrg.us/mirror/pad.jpg

From what I can tell, the image is a solid color. Though, it may have something hidden in it or some other meaning.

Edit: I opened the image in Notepad and I found this plaintext in the file:

**Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:07 pm

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Petbubble

Just wondering whether the "mirror" in the url is a clue or a red herring... maybe meaning to do the reverse of whatever decryption would be done normally???

Confused

**Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:23 pm

Duluoz

Not sure how this is relevant, but it was mentioned in irc last night that the last line of the email is a paraphrase of a quote by Booker T. Washington. The full quote is:

"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals."

**Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:26 pm

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EricL1st · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 43

**Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:40 pm

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MageSteff

**Posted:** Sun Sep 14, 2003 2:42 pm

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sauceykat

[SPEC] Pad.html

**Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2003 12:32 pm

teeman11 · Kl00 Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 42

**Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:24 pm

ramiles

Good Job..

ESHAN...

At least we are 1 step closer to earning the trust of Red knight..

Know we need to know is who is he... I am not sure its JAKE.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:44 pm

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Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

I tend to believe that this is a vernam cipher because of the reference to the word "pad" and the fact that we seem to have both pads. I tried to XOR bitwise using each number with each letter but didn't get anything.

The problem is, the pad should match the text.. but we have 110 numbers and more letters in the text.. I tried taking only capitals but that's less.. so we don't seem to have an exact match..

Another thing that threw me off was the large numbers (like 432).. which you need to XOR with something around 450 to get a result in the ASCII table.. but 450 in itself is too high to be found anywhere in the text we have.. It's actually going into 9 bits so doing things by byte which is logical doesn't work.

Time to ask reggie for another hint?

**Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2003 3:18 pm

Caterpillar

But it is interesting that the gobbledy gooky caps work out to an even 5 strings of 10. An they seem like "workable" caps as well.

TOSWRORETL
EVIADARPAS
NHCRDBECHE
LONSORURSC
PTLTHCRDFM

**Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2003 3:50 pm

MidKnight978 · Boot Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 25

strand of 10

**Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:15 pm

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