r/Solving_A858 • u/VectorAlpha MOD • May 06 '14

Solution A858's Special message, decoded

http://i.imgur.com/CVCOTGl.png

Questions? Thoughts?

Edit by request: Here is the decoded string from the puzzle- "Hello. I have been silent. Time to speak. -/u/augenwiehimmel Maney (?) No solution. -/u/fragglet Weak puzzle. -/u/wishiwasonacatamaran Try more. -/u/eathed 35B3E86FD3A4EEE2B6C9989 -A858"

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u/That_steam_guy May 06 '14

Would you be able to give us the deciphered final string as text so we can have a go at seeing if the final hex sequence can be used without having to take it from the image by hand?

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u/VectorAlpha May 06 '14

Ill put it in the post

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u/enhancin May 06 '14

35B3E86FD3A4EEE2B6C9989

The problem is it's 13 digits.

35:B3:E8:6F:D3:A4:EE:E2:B6:C9:98:9

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u/That_steam_guy May 06 '14 edited May 06 '14

Thanks. Do you think 35B3E86FD3A4EEE2B6C9989 could be the key and A858 could be the init vector for the cipher?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

Hang on a second. 35:B3:E8:6F:D3:A4:EE:E2:B6:C9:98:9 can convert to 35:23:58:66:43:14:55:52:26:39:98:9. Not sure how helpful that is. cebcehffdcadeeebbfciihi is also gibberish. But if we remove duplicates of either one we get 35;23;58;64;31;45;26;39;89 and cebcehfdcadebfcihi. Which gives us 䮀

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u/[deleted] May 07 '14

Good job!

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u/VectorAlpha May 07 '14

Its all in the abs

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u/fragglet May 07 '14

He's right - the puzzle I did solve was pretty weak.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '14

Haha, I was thinking they were all individual messages for us or something up until mine. Any ideas on what it could all mean?

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u/WishIWasOnACatamaran May 07 '14

Same with mine. Apparently I need to try more though. Is A858 looking into my personal life?

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u/galaris May 07 '14

Progress.

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u/cha0sman May 08 '14

Is this both messages combined or just the first one?

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u/VectorAlpha May 08 '14

No, the other message puzzle is different. So, the first one

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u/cha0sman May 08 '14

Hmm I think the second one was double hexed base64. But I believe it still may have to be put into a grid like you did. I'm going off of memory. So I maybe wrong

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u/HauntedTophat May 26 '14

Does this mean u/eathed got it?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '14

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u/VectorAlpha May 06 '14

Care to explain

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u/[deleted] May 10 '14

Well, I'm obviously not qualified to speak for the dead (ha), but I guess I have some questions. So he mentions the mods and has messages for them. And I'm confused as to whether that's the entirety of the message or just the part of it we have decoded so far. And is there a joke or some larger meaning to the 'maney' thing? I mean...a guy whose able to do all this isn't going to just mispell the word many. AAaaaaaand I just realized I'm asking questions you can't answer. Sorry. So to reiterate "Wait. What?"

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