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Can you decode this? (3.0) (New system in place)

Can you decode this?
Original topic by @Endermuffine71
2.0 topic by @Monna-Uka
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New System: DeCoins!
Both creators and solvers are now rewarded for their work. DeCoins are a point system that is kept track of on the leaderboard.
I created DeCoins to encourage competitiveness, creativity, and develop a community.
This is a fresh slate for the Decoding topics. No points from past cipher-solving will be awarded.
How to Play:
For Cipher Creators:
Step 1: Create a cipher using whatever means necessary.
Step 2: Fill out the form below and post it. Assign a difficulty level to it, from 1 to 5.
Step 3: For every week your cipher is unsolved, you get 1 DeCoin.
Step 4: If no-one solves your cipher within a month, you get an extra DeCoin.
Step 5: If someone has posted a solution to your cipher, you must check it and post if the solution is correct or not. Do not give it away if it is incorrect.
Step 6: When your cipher is solved, you no longer collect DeCoins for it.
For Cipher Solvers:
Step 1: Find a cipher to decode, and get to work. Only solve ciphers that have been accepted.
Step 2: You may use others' help to decode the cipher. The DeCoins will be given to all participants.
Step 3: If you think you have solved the cipher, post the solution, your method, and the names of all participants. The cipher creator will check your solution.
Step 4: If the solution is incorrect, your team does not get any DeCoins. You must try again and post a new solution.
Step 5: If the solution is correct, each member of your team gets 1 DeCoin per difficulty level of the cipher. (I.E: If you solve a difficulty 4 cipher, each participant gets 4 points.)
Resources
@50_scratch_tabs has prepared some practice ciphers. Check them out!
CyberChef is the best and most common way to create, decode, and share ciphers.
For simpler ciphers, Cryptii has a large amount of options to decode.
Morse Code World is an incredible resource when it comes to Morse Code.
Boxentriq is packed with solving tools. They also have puzzles available.
Last edited by co0lcr34t10ns (Oct. 27, 2024 18:57:16)
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Can you decode this? (3.0) (New system in place)
Create A Cipher!
This form is for creating ciphers. Be creative.
Current Ciphers
This form is for creating ciphers. Be creative.
Cipher Creators:
Cipher:
Difficulty Level:
Short Description:
Current Ciphers
#5: By BigNate469 (New DeCoin next Tuesday)Difficulty Level: 2138 206 211 186 208
The key is in my username#8: by blubby4 (New DeCoin next Tuesday)Difficulty Level: 3(13²) 14 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 16 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 14
I'm worried I'll give it away if I say too much, but what can 13² be written as?#9: by gilbert_given_189 (New DeCoin next Tuesday)SteganographyFrom the previous topic. The text is the least significant bit of the image.#10: by gilbert_given_189 (New DeCoin next Wednesday)Difficulty Level: 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
Encoded here is the ASK demodulation result of a news broadcast Clicky picked up. It's a binary stream, so it has been encoded in base64 for this post. Clicky have already decoded the message for me, but you guys don't have that pleasure lol. Try decoding it yourself!#12: by davidtheplatform (New DeCoin next Thursday)(cipher is too beefy, link)Difficulty Level: 5
hint:The answer isn't in the corpus, but you do need information about it to decode the cipher. They also don't interact directly, ie. you shouldn't xor the cipher and corpus (or anything similar)[/code]#14: by -YourLocalPhantom- (New DeCoin next Friday)Difficulty Level: 2Uses a custom alphabetK65p8de29cyG1m7gabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
The Golden Ten#15: by TheCreatorOfUnTV (New DeCoin next Friday)Difficulty Level: 2iimpqxrwrf
Your hint is that this isn't SHA-512 you think you're clever huh#21: by 50_scratch_tabs (New DeCoin next TuesdayDifficulty Level: 43544423316233375423333333162733333374544442316233374445423333162474444744473333333333735423331627474544423162474445423333162744444444444474447445444231624735423331627333333333333744444444444737445444231627
I only like symbols.#22: by ilovestories (New DeCoin next Tuesday)Difficulty Level: 4ADHHS-IE–HCRSYA–IARPTIY
I doubt anyone will be able to solve this any time soon (well, I guess @MonkeyBean2 might be able to).#24: by co0lcr34t10ns (New DeCoin next Thursday)Difficulty Level: 5VkZaU1FrNUZOWEZVV0dST1pXdHJlbFJ0YkVOalIxSkVXa2h3U2xKNlZqSmFSVTVEWkcxU2RGWnViRXBUUjNoeldrVkZPVkJSUFQwPQ==
Wild goose chase.#25: by ThisIsTemp1 (New DeCoin next Thursday)Difficulty Level: 5Tuestions Dbout Vcratch
Five layers. You shouldn't get a string of words.#27: by blubby4 (New DeCoin next Thursday)Difficulty Level: 28190729/8202176,8189830,8203699,8203703/8189534,8191370,8198083,8202176,8189806,8198334,8198400/8198400,8203703,8198083,8186699/8203703,8189995,8187559,8198083,8203703,8189995
I think this is a unique concept#29: by gilbert_given_189 New DeCoin next Friday)NUMBERS GALOREDifficulty Level: 5
I always wonder if we'll ever have a plain text, voice file format. I think this might be close. Shame it doesn't encode the pitch as well.#30: by 50_scratch_tabs (New DeCoin next Friday)Difficulty Level: 5t8;_>_ujU|<v;Ogzor3o%0UWL#tTA(Uz:CW<N\>9/U5b#<0#7Ok6Q{=E&/;!Gn8eJ(NO/<72V?Mo\PDAFz[|6Xte/hx<Ugrm?Qm0/'%g_Zv8pVo_<|TZx;hAU9B{7J[;P-_O[T7iI205(@]{xjk'BlU!X6Cb\2(<'C<R?#4>Gf'*P^_/[OHDJ{QWC1M!U!'wer|%h},hmXcOtZ8t$wu.|5q262lw&.K5z\[y;P&QP'lPznX8)uYelP6-Q)W{+j*@Vh]IBtLtE{+{Bt*4M8.9%0P>KotT(KU|GH2{1-MB8oTbV%Z.@g=o=/C^S08sogwZ'/emy#4N-k'&{7Kw$5!|2lzz$PxAUg{?e@@I[n!R
Use CyberChef. I made it with 10 steps. Your hint is: HTTP Websockets are as magic as cups on a string. Figure out the (easy) hint, and the first four results on Google will all provide the same information, which you need. KBE goes with that hint.#32: by 8to16 (New DeCoin next Monday)Difficulty Level: 2ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ
Don't bruteforce, or I will take all your decoins
Solved Ciphers#4: by BigNate469 (solved by MonkeyBean2)1x3LDifficulty Level: 1
Rotate
Solution:Method: Rotate the cipher visuallyText#3: by blubby4 (solved by MonkeyBean2)Difficulty Level: 30001110100001110010010010000101001001111000000010100010100011011000101010100111001001001000000010100010100010001000001010101001000000000010010000000011000010101000011000101010000010001000010100101010101010000000111100001010000010101000110110100010101010101010010000010001000010101010011100101111000011011010101010100001100011001010001010101011100011010000110110000010000011001000100000001000000000000000000000000000000001111This text is part of the puzzle! Can't go without it.
Know a way to turn 2 strings into 1?
Solution:Method: “XORing the other text (repeated as needed) with the binary data after being converted to bytes.”If you can read this, you know that you've solved it!
“Code:”(Taken from MonkeyBean2's solution post)x = '0001110100001110010010010000101001001111000000010100010100011011000101010100111001001001000000010100010100010001000001010101001000000000010010000000011000010101000011000101010000010001000010100101010101010000000111100001010000010101000110110100010101010101010010000010001000010101010011100101111000011011010101010100001100011001010001010101011100011010000110110000010000011001000100000001000000000000000000000000000000001111' k = b'This text is part of the puzzle! Can\'t do without it.' solution = bytes([int(x[i:i+8], ) ^ k[i//8 % len(k)] for i in range(0, len(x), 8)]) print(solution)#10: by 8to16 (Solved by SheepsAhoy)Difficulty Level: 4l8l5l12l12l15sn1n2n3
l = letter, n = number, s = space
Solution: ‘hello 123’
Method: Replace all S with space. Compare each number to the previous letter. If it is L, find the letter corresponding to that number (i.e, A=1, B=2, etc.). If it is N, keep the number.#11: by BigNate469 (solved by davidtheplatform)Difficulty Level: 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
Decode from base64 first, then try to solve. When making the cipher, I encoded it by hand- so there is a small chance it's incorrect. There's also a small chance that the base64 isn't correct either, in which case, ask me on my profile and I'll try to fix it.
Solution:Method: UnknownMy browser / operating system: ChromeOS 14541.0.0, Chrome 129.0.0.0, No Flash version detected#14: by BigNate469 (solved by TheCreatorOfUnTV and Voxalice)Difficulty Level: 1<!DO TYPE html><html><body><img s c="https://example.com/image.png"><a hr f="https://example.com/">From example.com</ ><p s yle="color: darkblue;">Webpag by BigNate469</p></body></html>
No, I'm not giving you hints for this one.
Solution:Method: This is an HTML document with some letters missing. Add in the missing letters to make it a valid HTML document with proper syntax. The missing letters end up spelling create.create#16: by 8to16 (Solved by BigNate469)Difficulty Level: 1|-- |_|_| X |--
Rotate
Solution:Method: “rotate 90 degrees clockwise, read from top to bottom.”text#17: by KentuckyFriedPlayer (Solved by MonkeyBean2)Difficulty Level: 2⡇⡯⡯⡤⠠⡪⡯⡢⠠⠺⠩
(Description not provided)
Solution:Method:Good job :)
Has not been described. The solver has provided the code for the method.Alternative:ciphertext = "⡇⡯⡯⡤⠠⡪⡯⡢⠠⠺⠩" charset = ''.join([chr(0x2800+n) for n in range(256)]) result = bytes([z.index(j) for j in x])result = bytes([ord(j)-0x2800 for j in x])#6: by MonkeyBean2 (Solved by davidtheplatform)Difficulty Level: 3251d05050505055e050f095e0b0f1208191a5e0a16195e1b150e16190c5d5e3b0f10170c1d0a09121d0a150f100b5d5e51310f305e3319255e1c395e3d304c5e5614090b0a5e0a16071d0c0a1510175e0a16195e1c0c090a19180f0c1b190c0b5e120f12525e170f5e1c0c090a19180f0c1b195e180f0c5e1d100f0a16190c5e070f0c1a55
Consider looking at the bit patterns… Graphing each byte and the following byte as (byte, followingbyte) on a graph could help… (tip: look at other commonly found binary data to see if there are any similar patterns)
Solution:Method: UnknownYayyyyy you solved the cipher! Congratulations! -MoN KeY bE AN2 (just thwarting the bruteforcers lol, go bruteforce for another word) No cyberchef for this one. output byte = (126 - input byte). Graphing the bytes is pretty cool, it could help for other ciphers too.#18: by 8to16 (solved by MonkeyBean2)Difficulty Level: 5ဈဉဓ࿀ဉဓ࿀ဉဍတဏဓဓဉဂဌစ࿁࿁࿁࿁࿀ဈဏဗ࿀ငဉင࿀မဏပ࿀ဓဏဌဖစ࿀ဉန
Unicode shift
Solution:Method: Shifting Unicode byte points for each of the characters by exactly 4000. Example in Python:This is impossible!!!! how did you solve it?cyphertext = "ဈဉဓ࿀ဉဓ࿀ဉဍတဏဓဓဉဂဌစ࿁࿁࿁࿁࿀ဈဏဗ࿀ငဉင࿀မဏပ࿀ဓဏဌဖစ࿀ဉန" result = ''.join([chr(ord(b)-4000) for b in cyphertext])#23: by ThisIsTemp1 (Solved by 50_scratch_tabs)Difficulty Level: 3B1E2A1C1D2B1A1G3D1
This isn't that complicated.
Solution:Method: Make a spreadsheet (should work on Google and Excel). Fill it out like this:BLACKBAUDRun this formula:ABCDEFG
HIJKLMN
OPQRSTU
VWXYZ=CONCATENATE(B1,E2,A1,C1,D2,B1,A1,G3,D1)
Code: B1 E2 A1 C1 D2 B1 A1 G3 D1]#19: by 8to16 (Solved by davidtheplatform)Difficulty Level: 5⁹⁼₄ₑ⁄‸₌₀₁₋‸⁻₁₈₀⁽₊‸⁹₋‸⁽⁹₌⁽₆‸⁺ₑ‸⁹₆‸⁽₎₁₄‸₃₍₅₉₍⁹₌⁆‸⁚⁽₌₌⁽₊‸₄₍⁻₃‸₆⁽ₐ₌‸₌₁₅⁽
Clue is in my username 100th post in this topic
Solution:Method: (quoted from solver) “Treat the input as an array of bytes. Discard every other byte, starting with the second one (so you end up with byte 0, byte 2, byte 4, etc.). Subtract 24 from each byte and convert to ASCII. Prepend an ”S“. I solved this with @MonkeyBean2's ”graph every pair of bytes“ method. If your cipher is just some sort of rotation, graphing the ciphertext makes it pretty obvious what you did.”Sadly, this cipher was eaten by an evil kumquat. Better luck next time#1: by co0lcr34t10ns (Solved by Voxalice)Difficulty Level: 2Zinqwzw ws Eov Lgx Hgqwqw Wlkg Bujhi cbl usyi c kwavhvhit pjbtvwk gapi
A welcoming cipher. I will not earn DeCoins from this cipher.
Solution:Method: Decode Vigenere cipher with word ‘decoins’.Welcome to Can You Decode This Three and have a wonderful cryptic time#13: by co0lcr34t10ns (New DeCoin next Thursday)Difficulty Level: 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]
Beefy multi layered cipher using a custom code. Not exactly hard but very time consuming. I'll give you the first hint. The first key is “goodluck”. Heh, accurate. BTW I do have a CyberChef of this and it does work.
Solution:Method: Have you ever seen a CyberChef that makes you want to exude violence?HOLYLAYEREDCIPHERS!#20: by 50_scratch_tabs (Solved by Voxalice)Difficulty Level: 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
There are 3 layers. The first one is not so obvious, but the second and third are. The first layer is a built-in function in Python.
Solution: A sizable chunk of rickroll
Method: (quoted from solver) "Reverse the input, then convert from base64, then use a Caesar cipher with the key (13) to finish decrypting.#23: by Voxalice (Solved by MonkeyBean2)Difficulty Level: 2"{â²&åy7±·ÿÿUêòYée1§^Mìm
A super simple cipher! Hint - if you use CyberChef online, the solution will be hidden in plain sight
Solution:Method: ENCODE (not decode) the cipher from base64.InvisibleText///VeryWellMadeText#7: by MonkeyBean2 (Solved by Voxalice)Difficulty Level: 31a00010445002d10411d5d21190b0f450d2a00410d5b3d070b1944590600020156281d544b070036001246692e4f304b075e0f0a0f0557342d0b0a0b4b653e084e176d030b054d12271c4833122b001c4b0c55620641075c6d0a001e081c3004150b1a2f161a0e165724170e035a281746081c092a0013471b10464e46081b70
The key is my username
Solution:Method: (quoted from solver) "Convert from hexadecimal, then XOR using the key “MonkeyBean2” encoded in UTF-8."Wooo you solved the cipher! Decoder: bytes([c ^ b'MonkeyBean2'[i % len(key)] for i, c in enumerate(bytes.fromhex(cypher))]) -mb2#2: by MonkeyBean2 (Solved by Voxalice)Difficulty Level: 2630c6205771662177b1a6e07680675552c433616650a6610751131582c0c361f3f46295c7c1b7e0a2a183848274e205427073d143419543b553e5b226005640a38
Think of an operator that is the inverse of itself…
Solution:Method: (quoted from solver) "Convert from hexadecimal, then apply a cascading XOR. The output will have to be fixed manually."Congratulations you solved it :) you get 2 points :) -MonkeyBean2#28: by MonkeyBean2 (Solved by 50_scratch_tabs)Difficulty Level: 2nocarglutitasnooy s uvlo de!ti
An encoding often used in radio telecommunications for better short-duration-noise resilience…
Solution:Method: (quoted from solver) "Swap endianness with word length 3:congratulations you solved it!#31: by DifferentDance8 (Solved by MonkeyBean2)Difficulty Level: 2sggkh[://]fkolzw[.]drprnvwrz[.]lit/drprkvwrz/xlnnlmh/gsfny/9/9v/Mzgzorv_hsifttrmt[.]qkt/398kc-Mzgzorv_hsifttrmt[.]qkt
There's an image in here somewhere. (Or, well, an image URL but close enough) Note: Kind of a rushed cipher, so sorry if it's extremely easy. Hint: Each symbol finds its mirror, as if gazing backward along the alphabet's spine.
Solution:Method: (quoted from solver) “Brute-forced words with the same characters in the same spots, and googled parts of the URL, before figuring out it was wikimedia commons and then manually converting each encoded character to it's original, with the knowledge of ”wikimedia.org“ and ”wikipedia" being in parts of the URL. The cipher is a simple letter substitution cipher, numbers and punctuation/special symbols are not changed."https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Natalie_shrugging.jpg/389px-Natalie_shrugging.jpg
Link to MB2's work#26: by co0lcr34t10ns (Solved by 50_scratch_tabs)Difficulty Level: 1$wp\d`a
very simple boi
Solution:Method: Decode with ROT-47SHA-256#33: by 8to16 (Solved by co0lcr34t10ns)Difficulty Level: 1Scr
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I replaced a certain letter with newlines (no shot)
Solution:Scratch is a programming language
Method: Replace newlines with ‘a’
Last edited by co0lcr34t10ns (Nov. 14, 2024 13:10:07)
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- MonkeyBean2
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Cipher Creators: MonkeyBean2
Cipher:Difficulty Level: 2
Short Description: Think of an operator that is the inverse of itself…
Cipher:
630c6205771662177b1a6e07680675552c433616650a6610751131582c0c361f3f46295c7c1b7e0a2a183848274e205427073d143419543b553e5b226005640a38
Short Description: Think of an operator that is the inverse of itself…
- co0lcr34t10ns
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Adding. Cipher Creators: MonkeyBean2
Cipher:Difficulty Level: 2630c6205771662177b1a6e07680675552c433616650a6610751131582c0c361f3f46295c7c1b7e0a2a183848274e205427073d143419543b553e5b226005640a38
Short Description: Think of an operator that is the inverse of itself…
- blubby4
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Can you decode this? (3.0) (New system in place)
Cipher Creators: blubby4
Cipher:
Difficulty Level: 3
Short Description: Know a way to turn 2 strings into 1?
Hang on, the old topic was in ATs, but this is in TiMaC?
Cipher:
0001110100001110010010010000101001001111000000010100010100011011000101010100111001001001000000010100010100010001000001010101001000000000010010000000011000010101000011000101010000010001000010100101010101010000000111100001010000010101000110110100010101010101010010000010001000010101010011100101111000011011010101010100001100011001010001010101011100011010000110110000010000011001000100000001000000000000000000000000000000001111
This text is part of the puzzle! Can't do without it.
Short Description: Know a way to turn 2 strings into 1?
Hang on, the old topic was in ATs, but this is in TiMaC?
Last edited by blubby4 (Oct. 15, 2024 00:41:39)
- co0lcr34t10ns
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Adding. Cipher Creators: blubby4
Cipher:HQ5JCk8BRRsVTkkBRREFUg==Difficulty Level: 3This text is part of the puzzle! Can't go without it.
Short Description: Know a way to turn 2 strings into 1?
They were in AT but also in TiMaC directory. This means all the topics are in TiMaC directory and not in a weird limbo (Minecraft Topic is in both TiRaP and TiMaC) Hang on, the old topic was in ATs, but this is in TiMaC?
- co0lcr34t10ns
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BTW Cipher #3 sounds interesting so I may go for it (3 pointer is no joke)
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I'm kinda tempted to encrypt some random string using SHA-512 and just list the difficulty as “impossible without a quantum computer”
But that wouldn't be fair, would it?
Edit:
Cipher Creators: Me (@BigNate469)
Cipher:
Difficulty Level: 1
Short Description: Rotate
But that wouldn't be fair, would it?
Edit:
Cipher Creators: Me (@BigNate469)
Cipher:
1x3L
Short Description: Rotate
Last edited by BigNate469 (Oct. 14, 2024 23:52:44)
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Cipher Solvers: Me (@MonkeyBean2) Cipher Creators: Me (@BigNate469)
Cipher:Difficulty Level: 11x3L
Short Description: Rotate
Solution:
Text
@BigNate469 Gave me a few hints.
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(Just confirming this is correct)Cipher Solvers: Me (@MonkeyBean2) snip
Solution:Text
@BigNate469 Gave me a few hints.
Working on a new one…
Okay:
Cipher Creators: me (@BigNate469)
Cipher:
138 206 211 186 208
Short Description: The key is in my username
Last edited by BigNate469 (Oct. 15, 2024 00:34:45)
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I just realised I made a mistake in my cipher… I have updated it
Last edited by blubby4 (Oct. 15, 2024 00:42:07)
- MonkeyBean2
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Can you decode this? (3.0) (New system in place)
Cipher Creators: MonkeyBean2
Cipher:Difficulty Level: 2
Short Description: Consider looking at the bit patterns… Graphing each byte and the following byte as (byte, followingbyte) on a graph could help… (tip: look at other commonly found binary data to see if there are any similar patterns)
Cipher:
251d05050505055e050f095e0b0f1208191a5e0a16195e1b150e16190c5d5e3b0f10170c1d0a09121d0a150f100b5d5e51310f305e3319255e1c395e3d304c5e5614090b0a5e0a16071d0c0a1510175e0a16195e1c0c090a19180f0c1b190c0b5e120f12525e170f5e1c0c090a19180f0c1b195e180f0c5e1d100f0a16190c5e070f0c1a55
Short Description: Consider looking at the bit patterns… Graphing each byte and the following byte as (byte, followingbyte) on a graph could help… (tip: look at other commonly found binary data to see if there are any similar patterns)
- BigNate469
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Your cipher: “yeah, medium level” Cipher Creators: MonkeyBean2
Cipher:Difficulty Level: 2251d05050505055e050f095e0b0f1208191a5e0a16195e1b150e16190c5d5e3b0f10170c1d0a09121d0a150f100b5d5e51310f305e3319255e1c395e3d304c5e5614090b0a5e0a16071d0c0a1510175e0a16195e1c0c090a19180f0c1b190c0b5e120f12525e170f5e1c0c090a19180f0c1b195e180f0c5e1d100f0a16190c5e070f0c1a55
Short Description: Consider looking at the bit patterns… Graphing each byte and the following byte as (byte, followingbyte) on a graph could help… (tip: look at other commonly found binary data to see if there are any similar patterns)
My brain: *cricket chirping noises*
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I fixed my cipher. It was a stupid mistake on my end, I really should have check what I was copy/pasting
- co0lcr34t10ns
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I'm going to bed in 5 minutes so will revise FP with all the chaos when I wake up
- MonkeyBean2
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Cipher Creators: MonkeyBean2
Cipher:Difficulty Level: 3
Short Description: The key is my username.
Cipher:
1a00010445002d10411d5d21190b0f450d2a00410d5b3d070b1944590600020156281d544b070036001246692e4f304b075e0f0a0f0557342d0b0a0b4b653e084e176d030b054d12271c4833122b001c4b0c55620641075c6d0a001e081c3004150b1a2f161a0e165724170e035a281746081c092a0013471b10464e46081b70
Short Description: The key is my username.
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Cipher Solvers: Me (@MonkeyBean2) Cipher Creators: blubby4
Cipher:0001110100001110010010010000101001001111000000010100010100011011000101010100111001001001000000010100010100010001000001010101001000000000010010000000011000010101000011000101010000010001000010100101010101010000000111100001010000010101000110110100010101010101010010000010001000010101010011100101111000011011010101010100001100011001010001010101011100011010000110110000010000011001000100000001000000000000000000000000000000001111Difficulty Level: 3This text is part of the puzzle! Can't do without it.
Short Description: Know a way to turn 2 strings into 1?
Hang on, the old topic was in ATs, but this is in TiMaC?
Solution:
If you can read this, you know that you've solved it!
Code:
x = '0001110100001110010010010000101001001111000000010100010100011011000101010100111001001001000000010100010100010001000001010101001000000000010010000000011000010101000011000101010000010001000010100101010101010000000111100001010000010101000110110100010101010101010010000010001000010101010011100101111000011011010101010100001100011001010001010101011100011010000110110000010000011001000100000001000000000000000000000000000000001111' k = b'This text is part of the puzzle! Can\'t do without it.' solution = bytes([int(x[i:i+8], 2) ^ k[i//8 % len(k)] for i in range(0, len(x), 8)]) print(solution)
Last edited by MonkeyBean2 (Oct. 15, 2024 01:09:24)
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Correct! Well done.Cipher Solvers: Me (@MonkeyBean2) Cipher Creators: blubby4
Cipher:0001110100001110010010010000101001001111000000010100010100011011000101010100111001001001000000010100010100010001000001010101001000000000010010000000011000010101000011000101010000010001000010100101010101010000000111100001010000010101000110110100010101010101010010000010001000010101010011100101111000011011010101010100001100011001010001010101011100011010000110110000010000011001000100000001000000000000000000000000000000001111Difficulty Level: 3This text is part of the puzzle! Can't do without it.
Short Description: Know a way to turn 2 strings into 1?
Hang on, the old topic was in ATs, but this is in TiMaC?
Solution:Method: XORing the other text (repeated as needed) with the binary data after being converted to bytes.If you can read this, you know that you've solved it!
Code:x = '0001110100001110010010010000101001001111000000010100010100011011000101010100111001001001000000010100010100010001000001010101001000000000010010000000011000010101000011000101010000010001000010100101010101010000000111100001010000010101000110110100010101010101010010000010001000010101010011100101111000011011010101010100001100011001010001010101011100011010000110110000010000011001000100000001000000000000000000000000000000001111' k = b'This text is part of the puzzle! Can\'t do without it.' solution = bytes([int(x[i:i+8], 2) ^ k[i//8 % len(k)] for i in range(0, len(x), 8)]) print(solution)
- blubby4
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Can you decode this? (3.0) (New system in place)
Cipher Creator: blubby4
Cipher:
Difficulty Level: 3
Short Description: I'm worried I'll give it away if I say too much, but what can 13² be written as?
Cipher:
(13²) 14 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 16 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 14
Short Description: I'm worried I'll give it away if I say too much, but what can 13² be written as?
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