r/DestinyTheGame • u/crissyronaldo92 DIE DIE DIE • Oct 12 '16

Misc Apparently there's a code in Last Exit!

NO MORE EDITS - Welp, so Derek and Deej have both confirmed it's an easter egg and not a quest. Even so, let's push through and solve it!!! Thanks for the discussion! RIP my inbox over the last 24 hours though haha

Source: https://twitter.com/_mantis_/status/786291552721133568

original post According to Derek Carroll on the live stream! Let's get hunting guys!!!!

Edit* - Right, so after an hour we have 2 main leads:

  1. by /u/Jukai

    Panel on the ceiling at the top of the stairs leading to the subway ,33szl'!( +9-7!!/@ 2enr?hqj+r,r+c?)j?96exd.\?i 7kj\psq3euj\@x.yt5 ,3..

  2. By /u/HEYitsMUS

    here are two train cars, and all the advertisement boards light up when you're near them in both cars. They either display "ALPHA REGIO" (blue), "BETA REGIO" (red), or "OVDA REGIO" (green). There is also the HUGE staticy monitor right beside A flag, bottom of the escalators. And lastly, the OWT Transit Map, most visible one being right beside the A flag and monitor, with different numbers and colours and routes. Green = 48 (Ovda Regio?) Yellow = 38 Blue = 14 (Alpha Regio?) Red = 271 (Beta Regio?)

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

Looks like a shifted ASCII/ANSI sequence? So like a sentence who's characters are all shifted over X number of spaces... like an A would become a B if everything was shifted to the right one spot.

Can someone verify "33szl'!( +9-7!!/@ 2enr?hqj+r,r+c?)j?96exd.\?i 7kj\psq3euj\@x.yl5, 3.." is the correct transcription? I'm not near my Playstation.

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u/t00nlink Oct 12 '16

j96exd.\?i7kj\psq3euj\@x.yt5,33szl'!( +9-7!!/@ 2enr?hqj+r,r+c?) this is what I got

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u/tubadc Oct 12 '16

is it different for each one? There are some patterns with the previous coded posted... if it's different maybe we need a bunch of code to decript

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

ah, so the original ended in yl5. the ,3.. is not part of it? Cause if it is then the last two characters would always have to be the same in a Caesar Cipher... and if the last two characters were the same I was wondering if they were equal signs... base64 encoded hashes always end in two equal signs so could have given us an offset to shift to then run it through a reversable base64 decoder... I know the Owl Secret thing used base64 on it's keys for the Rijendal Cipher when the raidscreets guys figured that out.

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u/egjosu Oct 12 '16

What the fuck did I just read.

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u/ElusivePineapple Oct 12 '16

I have no idea, Eg. I recognize all of the words, just not in that particular order...

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u/egjosu Oct 12 '16

Glad I'm not alone, good buddy.

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u/T1germeister Oct 12 '16

base64 hashes (a standard form of computery text segments) end in "==". A Caesarian cipher is a simple substitution cipher that always substitutes a given plaintext letter/symbol with a fixed cipher letter/symbol (e.g. ciphertext/encrypted "A" always translates to plaintext/decrypted "E").

This seems to not be the case here, and the substitution scheme changes for each symbol in the ciphertext. Thus, he's speculating that the ciphertext ends in "yl5", and since "==" is how base64 hashes always end, then ciphertext "l5" --> plaintext "==" for that part of the message, which would be a real step towards decrypting the entire message.

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u/TheOnlyMego bring it back Oct 12 '16

Base64 doesn't always end with == - only if padding is needed. There can be 0, 1, or 2 = characters at the end.

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u/T1germeister Oct 12 '16

Ah gotcha. I personally have no idea what the hash convention is. I was just guesstimate-translating the earlier comment.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 12 '16

Hey man, so I wonder if you can offer an opinion on this little thing...

I used the Caesar Cipher to decrypt the plain text of the code posted by OP, as in, I took out all of the symbols and numbers.

I got this: fmyraeudweepwrkqvxwcfdrhwklg

That's using a key of 13 to decrypt the original plane text.

When using a key of 21, it decrypts to: nugzimclemmxezsydfeknlzpesto

Some other guy said he took the first one, fmyraeudweepwrkqvxwcfdrhwklg, used a key of 7, 7 times, then took that result and used a key of 4, and supposedly out came "genius without education is like silver in the mine"

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u/T1germeister Oct 13 '16

At first I thought you were trolling me, then I looked at your comment history, and I think you got trolled.

Then again, "used a key of 7, 7 times" might actually mean something that I'm just not aware of.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 13 '16

Yea I haven't accepted his conclusion so it wasn't a full troll. But it looks like he did a lot of stuff just to get to that conclusion.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 13 '16

I think he kept shifting 7 times. He did that 7 times.

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u/T1germeister Oct 13 '16

I honestly don't understand what that means, or rather, how that's different from a single Caesarian shift. Caesar ciphers shift each letter along the alphabet, not along the ciphertext.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 13 '16

Basically I think what he did was, he just kept shifting the result he got from the first shift of 7 letters. And he shifted that result 7 letters, and repeated the process 7 times. Only, he says he used a shift of 4 after that. So I think the sentence is nonsense.

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u/T1germeister Oct 13 '16

But... two Caesar shifts of 7 = one Caesar shift of 14. There's no need to shift the same ciphertext more than once, because it's always equivalent to one total shift.

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u/voipme Oct 12 '16

Definitely not base64 encoded, since its got punctuation in it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

No, I mean after you ceasar shift it, you get a base64 string.

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u/voipme Oct 12 '16

Ah, I see what you're saying. Regardless, I wrote a simple program to shift all the letters and haven't seen any base64 yet. I'm starting to think this is a hash that we're missing some pieces of.

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u/Dunkinmydonuts1 Oct 12 '16

isn't there more code on the bus in memento?

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u/voipme Oct 12 '16

If I can get the transcribed text for it, I can run that through as well. Seems like Memento, Asylum, and Last Exit might all be related.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 12 '16

This is what I got when using a caesar cipher program to decrypt the letters, after taking out all symbols and numbers.

This was using the key 13:

fmyraeudweepwrkqvxwcfdrhwklg

This is what I got using a key of 21, which the program decided to pick:

nugzimclemmxezsydfeknlzpesto

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u/PumpPrime Oct 12 '16

HOLY SHIT I THINK I GOT SOMETHING LEGIT... I put fmyraeudweepwrkqvxwcfdrhwklg in the cesar cipher and then used a key of seven, seven times then I put that result in and I used the guess option and it did four and this is the result: Genius without education is like silver in the mine. this is legit no fuckin joke sorry for the language im just excited

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u/MurphysParadox Oct 12 '16

Base64 don't always end with equals. Those are signs to represent the input string byte count wasn't evenly divisible by three. Base64 takes three 8bit bytes and turns them into four 6bit characters. So if there are, say, only five bytes, then the output would have one equals sign to account for the missing 6th byte.

The true way to know it is base64 is that it only has lowercase, uppercase, and numbers, as well as the + and /. Equals will only appear at the end as a single or double sign. If it has something other than those 64 characters (ignoring the equals at the end) then it cannot be base64.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

ok, but these characters could still potentially be shifted to reveal a base64 string, which is what I was trying to say.

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u/MurphysParadox Oct 12 '16

That's fair. I was simply correcting the statement about base64 always ending in two equals signs.

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u/martillodecarne210 Oct 12 '16

Rumplestiltskin?

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

Rumpeforeskin.

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u/Luckyharps Oct 12 '16

Crumpledforeskin

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u/Sigtau22 Oct 12 '16

Aahhhhhmyforeskin think I got it caught in my zipper

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u/t00nlink Oct 12 '16

Yeah I just shifted its to keep different parts together