CICADA 3301 | New Wesite Update - The Bay Of Pigs Encrypted Message [1/A]

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The Cicada 3301 sevens.exposed website changed again. It also now redirects to http://www.1711141131131.xyz/ This time a single image displays a cryptic message named BayOfPigs.png with a new song in the background named Bruno.mp3. (This I expect is a reference to Bruno Borges the missing Brazilian.)

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PART 1

 

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• The encrypted text is Base64 which you can translate for yourself here. This translates to:

Kennedy turns on the deep state?

Seek the BayofPigs date multipliedby D+1, D+2, and D+3 pushed into decimal format equal the password to the next clue. Date format:
DDMYY
"Scramble" to 33011033.
Puff, Pass.

• The Bay of Pigs lasted for 3 days starting on the 17/04/1961 - 20/04/1961

• First we change the date formats to the one described above DDMYY and multiply them together.

17461 * 18461 * 19461 * 20461 = 128356049677569441

• Next the answer needs to be pushed into decimal format. So we input 128356049677569441 into an ASCII > Decimal converter.. This gives us:

128356049677569441 ASCII > Decimal = 495056515354485257545555535457525249

• This is the first part of our password. Next we work out what the password is for.

 

PART 2

• The second part of our password is already in the original clue above which is "Scramble" to 33011033.
  The decrypted clue above also mentions Puff, Pass and an airplane called an AC-47 Spooky, also known as Puff the Magic Dragon. This eludes to a bit of steganography software called OpenPuff which is able to encode and decode files into other file formats.

• We import the BayOfPigs.png into OpenPuff and input the 2 passwords in to (A) and (C) boxes. We know this because the clue mentions AC 47 Spooky. Plus the second password "Scramble" to 33011033. pretty much spelt out for us.

(A) - 495056515354485257545555535457525249
(C) - 33011033

• Clicking Unhide! revealed a QR code

 

PART 3

• Scanning the QR code leads us to a new encrypted image D1711Dama.png back at the new sevens.exposed redirect URL:

www.1711141131131.xyz/D1711Dama.png

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Again this is encrypted with Base64.

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Decryption reads:

Create a spreadsheet with the following titles, A1 to G1:
"Fibonacci" | "Phi" | Pi" | "Fibonacci * Phi" | "Phi * Pi" | "Fibonacci* Pi" | "Fibonacci + Phi + Pi"
Then fill in the first 50 numbers to each 51 cell.
Collect the number sequence on rows: 1,7, 13, 17, 23, 50.
Multiply rows 1 & 7 and divide by row 23 for Password (A)
Divide row 17 by row 13 for Pssword (B)
Split columns ABC, with DEF and divide for (C)
Add A + B together to create a string, and scramble to C.
Remove all decimal points and negatives but keep the same numerical order. IE: 0.001 = 0001
Good Luck.

• Next we make a spreadsheet:

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In the next part of this blog we will work out the equations laid out in the spreadsheet.