BETA TOPIC: Quite a scavenger hunt hidden in the coding

[PsychicK]

A key? You mean a serial number?
Give me the name of the program, I'll try to find something.

[Sage Of The Wise]

I just signed up for that MailVault thing that was mention on the link. It has a encoder/decoder on it.

[SpaceBoy2000]

Umm, I'd like to point out the the code IS the key. What it probably is used to encrypt/decrypt would be email to Lun. I mean, there's no other blocks of code is there?

[Ryethe]

The more I look at it, the more it seems that this might be some sort of double cipher. Meaning, encode it with one type of encryption + keycode, then encode it with second type of encryption + keycode.

If not, then the next best thing would be to try CITIDEL as the key to that other type of encryption you guys discovered.

[Sage Of The Wise]

Umm, I'd like to point out the the code IS the key. What it probably is used to encrypt/decrypt would be email to Lun. I mean, there's no other blocks of code is there?

Sure, lets go with that one, then we dont have to worry about it anymore.

Oh, and since CITADEL was backwords when we found it, whenever you try to use it try it backwords too. Maby Lun doesn't think that far into things, but it couldn't hurt.

[Flibbo]

I just had a stupid idea, What if the key is "Bishop"

The Key is his name

[Jabbo]

I'd already tested out a bunch of things with Bishop and Citadel, and nothing came up. Maybe we need to figure out what the email is, since nothing seems to work...

[Alundra]

speaking about base64... anybody thought about MIME?
http://www.hunnysoft.com/mime/

If ya type some of the message in google (not large portions at once)
you'll find plenty of examples of such gibberish messages.
They are said to be able to be easily decoded IF they are MIME...
I have looked up a lot, but I'm not that much of a computer wizz to completely grasp what to do with those programs...
Easy to find guys! hope this helps any...

MIME means Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, and refers to an official Internet standard that specifies how messages must be formatted so that they can be exchanged between different email systems. MIME is a very flexible format, permitting one to include virtually any type of file or document in an email message. Specifically, MIME messages can contain text, images, audio, video, or other application-specific data.

The MIME format is also very similar to the format of information that is exchanged between a Web browser and the Web server it connects to. This related format is specified as part of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).


This header defines what type of data is being sent, using what is known as "MIME types". A MIME type is a string that identifies a data format. MIME types always have a slash in them, separating a major type from a subtype. For instance, image/jpeg is the MIME type for JPEG images, where the major type is image (other major types are text, audio, video, application, message, and multipart), and the subtype is jpeg (identifying the specific format). Plain text is text/plain, while HTML is text/html. A registry list gives the current "official" MIME types, but some unofficial ones are used too; unofficial and experimental types can be used with names beginning with x-, which signifies a type that's not actually registered. In some cases MIME types without any x- have been popularized despite not appearing on the official list; this is against the standards, but some of these types are in such widespread use that it's impossible to avoid them. These include text/javascript and audio/wav.

[fwacho]

up front... I've never seen this code and lun has told me nothign about it. however I'm rather curious to deciper it myself. I tried tkaing teh letters after B I S H O P making sure they were capatalized. the first six got me
W1 u0 rt

then it got wierd
BEYkK
and I stoped at that point . I'm sure BISHOP has somethign to do twith it but I can;r prove it. I really am curious here. I'm as in the dark as you all.

[Alundra]

MD5 might be a clue?


The MD5 algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest" of the input. It is conjectured that it is computationally infeasible to produce two messages having the same message digest, or to produce any message having a given prespecified target message digest. The MD5 algorithm is intended for digital signature applications, where a large file must be "compressed" in a secure manner before being encrypted with a private (secret) key under a public-key cryptosystem such as RSA.

Private key might be in this specific case either Bishop or Citadel.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1321.html


A four-word buffer (A,B,C,D) is used to compute the message digest.
Here each of A, B, C, D is a 32-bit register. These registers are
initialized to the following values in hexadecimal, low-order bytes
first):

word A: 01 23 45 67
word B: 89 ab cd ef
word C: fe dc ba 98
word D: 76 54 32 10

Didn't Fwacho just post something about the answers being on a platter with 8, 14,... those numbers he wrote?

About bishop, it might be more then a simple key... http://bishop.sourceforge.net/script.html

Same goes for Citadel...
"If you're a developer, or would just like to tinker with the latest and greatest version of the Citadel source code currently ..."
http://www.citadel.org/index.php?option ... &Itemid=29

I haven't had the chance to go indepth into any of these pages, 'cuz I'm in school at the moment of this post, but if you're a wizz, surely take a look at it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
http://www.pgpi.org/ <- a pgp download

Either way, I hope any of these links might provide something to help you all crack this code.

[Sage Of The Wise]

Well, I decode somthing, even though it ended up being useless. In the phantom's lair there a piece of paper that says:
IDEAL RIFF
FACIAL IRON
I PLOT MY BASH

The first line unscrambles to Fairview, and the second line is California. I couldn't figure out the third. Impossible thinks it meens that Lun was the mastermind behind Porter's quote on Bash.org

[fwacho]

Well, I decode somthing, even though it ended up being useless. In the phantom's lair there a piece of paper that says:
IDEAL RIFF
FACIAL IRON
I PLOT MY BASH

The first line unscrambles to Fairview, and the second line is California. I couldn't figure out the third. Impossible thinks it meens that Lun was the mastermind behind Porter's quote on Bash.org

That's actaully not plot related if my guess is right. that would be more of signature quote expressing personal inforamtion about the programmer.

[Teenr0cker]

Fairview California...


http://www.city-data.com/city/Fairview-California.html


Uh...yeah...

[Impossible]

Lun isn't from California, is he?

fwacho, why don't you just ask Lun about it and tell us? >_>

[Sage Of The Wise]

That's actaully not plot related if my guess is right. that would be more of signature quote expressing personal inforamtion about the programmer.

Yeah, I kinda figured that.