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Ideas: - The "vbizukfplsqf...." is not part of the puzzle - The original website is available at https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion/ https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onio

by esnard 9y ago

Ideas: - The "vbizukfplsqf...." is not part of the puzzle - The original website is available at https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion/ https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion/ - The page title is "Caesar Was Rome's 2nd Emperor", hinting to Caesar cipher - In a HTML comment: "kcovjgfktgevgf" which is "I am the directed" encrypted via Caesar cipher - In a HTML comment: "6e6f71696e796c6e646e7179736d77666163766a7272666a0a" which is the hexadecimal for "noqinylndnqysmwfacvjrrfj\n" - The image is named "vigenere.png", hinting to Vigenere cipher

BlackLotus89 9y ago
The solution is > endofthelinenineninenine every one of your obervations was correct (btw I got to know the tabula recta as vigenere square [1]) kcovjgfktgevgf was the key for noqinylndnqysmwfacvjrrfj\n (and \n is indeed endoftheline) I used an online vigenere chiffre "applet" (ok it is javascript so not really an applet but who cares) and I got an off by one (just define the alphabet as bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza or use jbnuifejsfdufe as the key) PS. Without tor you can use [3] and thx for making me waste that 5 minutes :D it was fun [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_recta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_recta [2] https://cryptii.com/vigenere-cipher https://cryptii.com/vigenere-cipher [3] https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion.link https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion.link
- iooi 9y ago
  So what does that solution mean? Are you supposed to visit /999?
  - BlackLotus89 9y ago
    Don't know it isn't my puzzle. Maybe I'm wrong and this isn't the solution and there is still some way to go. Edit: damn wanted to try the /999 but the site is down (yeah I'm using tor and not the onion.link link) I hope this is just the HN effect and it will soon work again Edit2: I hoped to find something hidden in the image itself but it wasn't Edit3: If anyone else wants to give it a shot https://blacklotus.github.io/ https://blacklotus.github.io/ uploaded the index.html and vigenere.png (oviously no other files)
    - esnard 9y ago
      I read "Hax and Vax" as "Horizontal axis and Vertical axis", but I'm not sure what to think about it.

by esnard 9y ago

BlackLotus89 9y ago

The solution is > endofthelinenineninenine every one of your obervations was correct (btw I got to know the tabula recta as vigenere square [1]) kcovjgfktgevgf was the key for noqinylndnqysmwfacvjrrfj\n (and \n is indeed endoftheline) I used an online vigenere chiffre "applet" (ok it is javascript so not really an applet but who cares) and I got an off by one (just define the alphabet as bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza or use jbnuifejsfdufe as the key) PS. Without tor you can use [3] and thx for making me waste that 5 minutes :D it was fun [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_recta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_recta [2] https://cryptii.com/vigenere-cipher https://cryptii.com/vigenere-cipher [3] https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion.link https://vbizukfplsqfdhbr.onion.link

iooi 9y ago
So what does that solution mean? Are you supposed to visit /999?
- BlackLotus89 9y ago
  Don't know it isn't my puzzle. Maybe I'm wrong and this isn't the solution and there is still some way to go. Edit: damn wanted to try the /999 but the site is down (yeah I'm using tor and not the onion.link link) I hope this is just the HN effect and it will soon work again Edit2: I hoped to find something hidden in the image itself but it wasn't Edit3: If anyone else wants to give it a shot https://blacklotus.github.io/ https://blacklotus.github.io/ uploaded the index.html and vigenere.png (oviously no other files)
  - esnard 9y ago
    I read "Hax and Vax" as "Horizontal axis and Vertical axis", but I'm not sure what to think about it.