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The man making puzzles for hackers
- tylerg 11y agoThis sounds really cool. Anyone written about the previous puzzles?
- necubi 11y agoHere's a pretty nuts write up from last year's winners: http://elegin.com/dc22/ http://elegin.com/dc22/.
- barbs 11y agoSame challenge, different team. http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-22-badge-challenge-walkthrough http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-...
- roasm 11y agoSomewhat related: Are there any puzzle subscription services out there? I think it'd be a really interesting business to receive an innovative, creative puzzle weekly or monthly that show some real effort and artistry. Maybe it would be a mix of physical and digital puzzles. Does that exist? If not, I might have to do that :)
- schoen 11y agoOne such thing was http://blacklettergame.com/ http://blacklettergame.com/ which I guess is being re-run (with new content) periodically. Also there's P&A Magazine (pronounced "Panda"): http://pandamagazine.com/ http://pandamagazine.com/
- crimsonalucard 11y agoHere's a puzzle... Decode me 3 times or 64: WW0wNFoyTklTbkJsYlZWbldtMDVlVWxJYkhaa1V6UTk= winner gets the prize written in the message.
- jen729w 11y ago:-) No soup for me!
- aembleton 11y ago:( no prize for me
- tummybug 11y agoGot anything tougher?
- crimsonalucard 11y agowatch my name, I'll throw something out there.
- wolfgke 11y agoHere you are: Vm0wd2QyVkhVWGhUV0d4VFltdHdVRlp0ZUhkVU1WcDBaVWhrYWxKc1d ucFhhMk0xWVVaS2MxZHVhRmRTZWtFeFdWY3hTMUl4WkhOWGJGcFhUVE ZHTTFaclpEUlpWMUpJVm10V1UySklRbTlVVmxwM1ZWWmtWMVZyU214U 01EVjVWR3hhVjFWdFNrbFJiVGxWVm14YU0xbHFSbHBsUm1SMFVteGtU bEpHV2paV2JUQXhWVEZSZUZkdVRsaGhlbXhoV1d0a2IxVXhjRmhsUjN SWVVsUldXVmt3V2tOV01rVjNZMFpTVjFaV2NGTmFSRVpEVld4Q1ZVMU VNRDA9 SCNR
- maaku 11y agogiven that by random chance the first decoding was 32-bytes, the same size as a bitcoin private key, the actual decoding was a bit of a let down :(
- imglorp 11y agoIn case anyone is wondering about the odd font on the yellow press pass, it's actually a phonetic alphabet for English called Shavian. It was a project of George Bernard Shaw, who was a vigorous spelling reformist. It didn't get very far, but there was a book published in Shavian and a more useful spinoff called Quikscript. If you're interested in a rare or cryptic shorthand for note taking, either might be for you.