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This is cool: Thinkcode's ad has a puzzle/code. First person to solve it gets their full catalog. http://skitch.com/jackowayed/dk1ws/thinkcode-puzzle http://sk
by jackowayed 16y ago
This is cool: Thinkcode's ad has a puzzle/code. First person to solve it gets their full catalog.
http://skitch.com/jackowayed/dk1ws/thinkcode-puzzle http://skitch.com/jackowayed/dk1ws/thinkcode-puzzle
- johnswamps 16y agoAs plain text: # The fastest person to solve this will win our entire catalog bThvW3JKYz16bXpUWDIufkl2OllseC4maV1gMjtVYXNtb2RyZ3czbkQzQDtn ZnRdMVZuZkIqVTJpIGlxa2xubkAoaTRueGdQaGN0YyRjTGN1WGlUbzF5VU5q cz50KmRwZXlncGN0dA== I added whitespace as in the picture, you probably want to remove it. (I transcribed this by hand, let me know if I messed anything up)
- stereo 16y agoIn case the rows play a role, I have it (OCR'd and manually corrected) as : bThvW3JKYz16bXpUWDIufkl2OllseC4maV1gMjtVYXNtb2RyZ3czbkQzQDtn ZnRdMVZuZkIqVTJpIGlxa2xubkAoaTRueGdQaGN0YyRjTGN1WGlUbzF5VU5q cz50KmRwZXlncGN0dA== The == at the end make it look suspiciously like some kind of base64, but no luck. Edit: updated for s/0/O/ Edit 2: it isn't a simple rotation of a base64 string either. Maybe the == is a red herring.
- logic 16y agobase64 decoding of the text results in: m8o[rJc=zmzTX2.~Iv:Ylx.&i]`2;Uasmodrgw3nD3@;gft]1VnfB*U2i iqklnn@(i4nxgPhctc$cLcuXiTo1yUNjs>t*dpeygpctt That's all printable ASCII, which I don't suspect is a coincidence.
- stereo 16y agoHah, of course! Well, ROTing that doesn't yield anything either, and it's too small to analyse character frequency if it's a cipher. I tried using 'thinkcode' as a substitution key, and the end looks a bit like 'thinkcode' itself!
- KirinDave 16y agoHave you considered that it is probably valid perl? ;)
- swolchok 16y agoOne of my friends thought it looked like base85, but it is not.
- jcrocholl 16y agobase64: bThvW3JKYz16bXpUWDIufkl2OllseC4maV1gMjtVYXNtb2RyZ3czbkQzQDtnZnRdMVZuZkIqVTJpIGlxa2xubkAoaTRueGdQaGN0YyRjTGN1WGlUbzF5VU5qcz50KmRwZXlncGN0dA== text: m8o[rJc=zmzTX2.~Iv:Ylx.&i]`2;Uasmodrgw3nD3@;gft]1VnfB*U2i iqklnn@(i4nxgPhctc$cLcuXiTo1yUNjs>t*dpeygpctt letters: $&(48:=>BDIJLNPVY[`aehjkquvw~*.13;@TX]dflprsxyz2Umogintc counted: 111111111111111111111111111111222222222222222222333345556 progressively hiding infrequent letters: m o r c zmzTX2. lx. i] 2;U smodrg 3n 3@;gft]1 nf *U2i i lnn@ i nxg ctc c c XiTo1yU s t*dp ygpctt m o c m 2 i 2 U mo g n g t n U2i i nn i n g ctc c c i o U t g ctt c i g n g t n i i nn i n g ctc c c i t g ctt c i n t n i i nn i n ctc c c i t ctt c c c c c c Python script: http://pastebin.com/7Jv891zg http://pastebin.com/7Jv891zg
- logic 16y agoYour hand-transcription matches my hand-transcription, so I'd call it good. :) Edit: yep, 24th character is an "oh", not a zero.
- colonelxc 16y agopuzzle[24] is O (capital o) not 0 (zero).
- johnswamps 16y agoGood catch, fixed.
- cscotta 16y agoAt 140 bytes even, it looks a lot like an SSH RSA public key to me (RSA 1024 bit).
- bwag 16y agoI wonder if its just coincidence that the cursor is on column 42 of the first line in the image?