Cicada3301 - countdown

originally posted by: Thill
Don't want to kill the buzz, but the general consensus amongs the cicada community is that this is fake .. Mainly due to the fact that there is no PGP and that it was advertised at DefCon (can't confirm that last one since I was not there).

Ha, are you in #cicadasolvers?

a reply to: shaneslaughta

There's no way Cicada 3301 is behind that post. A simple substitution cipher?

a reply to: theantediluvian

Grasping at straws as the clock runs down.

Wish i had heard about this before today.

a reply to: rockpaperhammock

Where did you got those hashes? I ve ran this one through hashid

38ab6ba758d90d2b93402505265e8374a7f5d9a7528837aad79d8e6ca20b8deac1a67755b7db9f79835a463bce04ded91a13d72c57950d95fd2f65d207299596f1

and return was IMPI2 RAKP HMAC-SHA1 encryption as you can see on the picture below. 1st try was wrong because the way you have pasted hashes, they go out of screen so you have to copy everything to notepad first.



If anyone else would like to try out because I have to go to sleep. There may be a way to decrypt a message wtih oclhascat.

github.com...

hashcat.net...
hashcat.net...

a reply to: Op3nM1nd3d

it was some webpage i found through an onion site but its on the regular internet too i found later...i think its from the last time it was up in 2013...ill try to see if i can find it again...googling it would probably work too if fall asleep..but il check back tomrorw and try to pm you

try digging around in here uncovering-cicada.wikia.com...

originally posted by: hitandrun

originally posted by: Thill
Don't want to kill the buzz, but the general consensus amongs the cicada community is that this is fake .. Mainly due to the fact that there is no PGP and that it was advertised at DefCon (can't confirm that last one since I was not there).

Ha, are you in #cicadasolvers?

Yes but not under this nick

,+++77777++=:, += ,,++=7++=,, 7~?7 +7I77 :,I777 I 77 7+77 7: ,?777777??~,=+=~I7?,=77 I =7I7I~7 ,77: ++:~+7 77=7777 7 +77=7 =7I7 ,I777= 77,:~7 +?7, ~7 ~ 777? 77+7I 777~,,=7~ ,::7=7: 7 77 77: 7 7 +77,7 I777~+777I= =:,77,77 77 7,777, = 7 ?7 , 7~,~ + 77 ?: :?777 +~77 77? I7777I7I7 777+77 =:, ?7 +7 777? 77 ~I == ~77= +777 777~: I,+77? 7 7:?7? ?7 7 7 77 ~I 7I,,?7 I77~ I 7=77~+77+?=:I+~77? , I 7? 77 7 777~ +7 I+?7 +7~?777,77I =77 77= +7 7777 ,7 7?7:,??7 +7 7 77??+ 7777, =I, I 7+:77? +7I7?7777 : :7 7 7I7I?77 ~ +7:77, ~ +7,::7 7 ,7~77?7? ?: 7+:77777, 77 :7777= ?77 +I7+,7 7~ 7,+7 ,? ?7?~?777: I777=7777 ~ 77 : 77 =7+, I77 777 + ~? , + 7 ,, ~I, = ? , 77:I+ ,7 :77 :

14 minutes and 40 seconds

10:49 am BST

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i missd the countdown, but its now rising.....did anyone see what happened if anything?

The website changed this morning - did anyone see that? You can join a "brood".

www.cicada3301.org...

a reply to: Phantom423

Yes! The Liber Primus is very interesting. Although, of the three behaviors it mentions there (Consumption, Preservation, Adherence): "To belong is death". What would be the purpose of joining a brood?

lol, this should be a secret societies thread

From what I just read about 2014 puzzle I think we were not even close to deciphering anything....

the-cicada-puzzles.wikia.com...

There is also this site with the series of numbers:

4 33 12 21 27 ?

1033adacic.org...

originally posted by: nonjudgementalist

,+++77777++=:, += ,,++=7++=,, 7~?7 +7I77 :,I777 I 77 7+77 7: ,?777777??~,=+=~I7?,=77 I =7I7I~7 ,77: ++:~+7 77=7777 7 +77=7 =7I7 ,I777= 77,:~7 +?7, ~7 ~ 777? 77+7I 777~,,=7~ ,::7=7: 7 77 77: 7 7 +77,7 I777~+777I= =:,77,77 77 7,777, = 7 ?7 , 7~,~ + 77 ?: :?777 +~77 77? I7777I7I7 777+77 =:, ?7 +7 777? 77 ~I == ~77= +777 777~: I,+77? 7 7:?7? ?7 7 7 77 ~I 7I,,?7 I77~ I 7=77~+77+?=:I+~77? , I 7? 77 7 777~ +7 I+?7 +7~?777,77I =77 77= +7 7777 ,7 7?7:,??7 +7 7 77??+ 7777, =I, I 7+:77? +7I7?7777 : :7 7 7I7I?77 ~ +7:77, ~ +7,::7 7 ,7~77?7? ?: 7+:77777, 77 :7777= ?77 +I7+,7 7~ 7,+7 ,? ?7?~?777: I777=7777 ~ 77 : 77 =7+, I77 777 + ~? , + 7 ,, ~I, = ? , 77:I+ ,7 :77 :

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Please excuse the ignorance of this reply I am sure smarter brains then me may have already seen this connection, but I am seeing 8 distinct characters in that string above, It reminds me of a pointer style computer language called "BrainF*ck" but it looks like there is an off set on some of the symbols. Almost like someone tried to officiate and already officiated computer language.

The Language

A Brain# program has an implicit byte pointer, called "the pointer", which is free to move around within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer itself is initialized to point to the beginning of this array.

The Brain# programming language consists of eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character.

> Increment the pointer.
< Decrement the pointer.
+ Increment the byte at the pointer.
- Decrement the byte at the pointer.
. Output the byte at the pointer.
, Input a byte and store it in the byte at the pointer.
[ Jump forward past the matching ] if the byte at the pointer is zero.
] Jump backward to the matching [ unless the byte at the pointer is zero.
The semantics of the Brain# commands can also be succinctly expressed in terms of C, as follows (assuming that p has been previously defined as a char*):

> becomes ++p;
< becomes --p;
+ becomes ++*p;
- becomes --*p;
. becomes putchar(*p);
, becomes *p = getchar();
[ becomes while (*p) [
] becomes ]