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Old Cyan.com Cipher
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Zero Gravitas
Greenhorn

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 		Old Cyan.com Cipher
Found a cipher while browsing old "secret" sites on Cyan.com
While reading the Penny Arcade forums, I stumbled across a link to http://cho.cyan.com which contains an imagemap of one of the first screens of Riven. If you click on the spider, it takes you to http://cho.cyan.com/arachnid/spyder.html. From here, there are two obvious links (http://cho.cyan.com/arachnid/mme.html) and (http://cho.cyan.com/arachnid/riveneggs.html) as well as one non-obvious link (http://cho.cyan.com/arachnid/flyDroppings.html). In the source code of each of these pages besides the initial one, at the very bottom is a comment containing a series of dots and spaces in three lines as well as a fragment of the phrase "google.com". If you put the dots in order, you get the following:
Code:
.    .      .    .  .      .  .       .     .                  .     .
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Now, these pages are pretty old, but I can't find any reference to this (what I'm assuming is a) cipher or its solution. I lurked here during the Haunted Apiary days so I know there're people here with a way better grasp of cryptanalysis than me. Thought you all might like to help me solve this so I can get it off my mind and go back to work.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:51 pm
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Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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 		If you overlay all 4 components, you get the following:
Code:
.. .  ..    .. .  .  .     .. ..  .    .. .  .  .  ..  . .. .   . .   .
      .      .  .    ..    .. .  .         .  . ..  . .   .    ..  . .
.     .     .. .  .. .        .  .        .  .  .        .     .     .


You can take it from there. Wink
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Zero Gravitas
Greenhorn

Joined: 29 Jun 2007
Posts: 4

 		Ah, nice!

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Braille... "map your gps coordinates" I take it they want you to use googlemaps, but any particular coordinates?


EDIT:
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It only seems to work if you either offset the first line of the first set one dot to the right or offset the other three one dot to the left. Huh.


EDIT 2:
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Ah ha! That means I screwed up in my copy/pasting from the source Wink


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catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

Joined: 25 Sep 2002
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Location: Silicon Valley, CA

 		Googling about, I found a site which lists other pages in this set, and spoils their solutions:
http://pyxis.rspruijt.net/riven_spyder02.htm

man, this stuff must be old:
Quote:
September 3, 1999
Yet Another Spyder Update
Spyder once again has updated http://cho.cyan.com/arachnid/web.html. Hmmmmm.....

from http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/riven/473/news.html

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