The Steemit Crypto Challenge #8

in #challenge • 9 years ago

Prepare - Uncover - Outwit - Find - WIN!



Welcome to the Steemit Crypto Challenge. You may know this series of puzzles or not. Let me give you a quick introduction. You are looking to find a solution. Anything can be a hint. You will start with two hints given and need to seek the right path. So you think you are good with riddles? Are you a big master of crypto puzzles? Find the answer. Sometimes the hints are hidden, not visible to the eye. But they are here.

Can you follow your intuition and stay on the right track? The first to reveal a hint will win a prize. The first to attain understanding with the right answer will receive their bigger reward.

Here is your first hint
Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed
1:5,2:1,3:3,4:7,5:8,7:1
Here is your second hint
194348662X
EnCt2c7c09c257615912a1be396241d6b1da822853385c7c09c257615912a1be396240XwLbbvDuAJ d3yZyBlgXDZarrDUSOf8KDg7lgPlfdjTYqXb33QyJqz8J321xsJiT7Z3uuqModkgHIwEmS

Decrypt it at https://encipher.it
send me what you got in the chat

Rules, Terms and Conditions

You will need to employ all of your skills to solve this crypto-puzzle. This isn't for the weak-hearted.
Don't limit your creativity, look forward and look behind the curtain!
Take advantage of:

  • Image (and reverse) searches
  • Steemit
  • Wikis or Encyclopedias
  • Filesharing Sites
  • Sound, video, and image recording manipulation

    • You will receive hints from time to time.

    Stay frosty and don't get burned in that inferno


    Don't be limited to the list above, get creative! Think you got in the bag? How hard could it be? Surely, your Code Solvers and Image Manipulation Translators are up to date, piece of cake! All submissions are due by Saturday October, 22th @ 6pm (UTC -4) The First Prize reward is 100 Steem. Additional: 10SBD per new hint uncovered. (This challenge is not impossible, but you'll feel like it is). Special thanks goes to @blocktrades who sponsors this challenge.

    P.s.: Only few weeks left until the SteemFest! Hope to see you there!
    Another episode of Myth of Fact follows tomorrow.

    Happy hunting,
    Tim Said

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     9 years ago 

    The quote:

    Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed

    is from Dan Brown's Inferno, so one might think that the number series:

    1:5,2:1,3:3,4:7,5:8,7:1

    is like chapters and letters in the chapter in that book. But it's not. EIVNLL (or small caps) doesn't decipher the hint #2.

    in the phrase containing that quote, another book is referenced: Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls. But since chapter 6 is omitted from the numbering in the hint, is it a coincidence that the quote above in Dan Brown's Inferno is exactly in chapter 6?

    Can it be the words and not the letters?

    likeI’MOFFiftheLANGDON

    That doesn't work either....

    Should we use the original book language in spanish?

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     9 years ago 

    Also, as others figured it out too in the chat channel, '194348662X' in hint no 2 is the ISBN number for the book: Secrets of inferno

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     9 years ago (edited)

    Last time the password at https://encipher.it contained spaces. I also tried some variations, but no luck ...

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     9 years ago 

    The correct password contains spaces

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       9 years ago (edited)

      So far I've gotten to this and I'm stuck. The password for the encrypted sequence:

      EnCt2c7c09c257615912a1be396241d6b1da822853385c7c09c257615912a1be396240XwLbbvDuAJ d3yZyBlgXDZarrDUSOf8KDg7lgPlfdjTYqXb33QyJqz8J321xsJiT7Z3uuqModkgHIwEmS

      should be in Secrets of Inferno, this specific edition with ISBN-10: 194348662X, which is this one:

      This:

      1:5,2:1,3:3,4:7,5:8,7:1

      is the secret to finding the password there, that should contain spaces.

      But there are a few things that don't ad up:

      1. Why miss the 6, in the sequence (Hint #1 quote is in chapter 6 in DB's Inferno)
      2. Why even mention DB's inferno when we have the specific ISBN number for the other book...
      3. This blog has both the phrase and the Secrets of inferno theme..so is the sequence actually in there? https://secretsofinferno.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/bombay-sapphire-and-gogol-should-never-be-mixeda-strange-sentence-or-a-series-of-clues/
      4. Why use ISBN-10 when the new format is ISBN-13? Converters are out there so maybe making it a little more cryptic?
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