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Thanks! Id completely missed the new lines. Pretty sure that'll be it. If not its a massive coincidence.

Round two turned out to be pretty simple. Just base64 and a substitution cipher.

If round three involves md5's if ever we are in the same city I owe you a pint!

Payne

I am taking part in a national cipher competition. Round two is timed and tomorrow so getting some practice in. Probably far simpler than im making it out to be but im struggling with the 2011 round three code. MjUxMUZDNkNCMEJCMjQzMUMwQjQzRDY3OTNEMENCQzENCjYyQ0MwQjRFQkIwQjU3QjQwNzc4MTc5MjM0MjQ2QzM4D...

I have the answer now. It was nothing to do with the corporate headquaters.

Turns out while the official source is rubbish for the first characters, it is fine for the answer itself. I recommend to anyone trying this to work from the bottom up.

Its typical. Although it took three separate sites it was fairly easy to get the first few characters. But the important characters arnt so easy. Would make perfect sense if it was a particular corporate headquaters, or the word from which they come. Yet neither are accepted. Think the challenge nee...

Fun!? Ridiculously frustrating. Looked hard so I left it and left it.

Then come back to it and only find it by sheer fluke. I had spent ages thinking it was binary and trying to work out how the hell it was encoded!

Well, i thought from the previous clues and a misspelling of the name of the challenge that this was related to a semi-daily changing image.
Except looking at those dates I can find no connection. Am i on the right lines? If not a small clue would be appreciated.

Thanks

Payne

Well, after struggling with Mod and the 10000 cycle limit i then realized the obvious easy solution.

Kind of made Fast Mod a case of copy paste.

Soooo
I Decompiled them and get several errors

the first being "The constructor BreakoutGame(DefaultStage, BreakoutApplet, Hashtable) is undefined"

Kinda new to this. Any clues??

Thanks

Payne

so i get the yes code.
I presumed since it is divisible by 8 each line is binary using capitols. But i get nonsense.

A hint would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Payne

Guessing there is some trick to this? Fairly sure i have run it for everything in the range -2147483647 to 2147483647 without an error

[Edit] -Scratch That. Was Being Retarded. Can't believe i spent over an hour on something so easy and obvious!!

i was being too clever with the url

pm'd u

So, I have been going at this for ages. Theres a set of 7 letters that i extracted and noticed some strong patterns with them that could suggest they have a much more complex meaning that in previous challenges. Or it could just be coincidence. Mayb its not a simple mono substitution? Any hints real...

Well i noticed the differences. Converted to binary all of the in question words. Binary converter gets nothing. Is it only the changed words mayb? not the originals from the same pattern, any hints would be nice.

Any Hints? i have the letters posted above. Using a few tools im pretty certain its not a substitution/. Judging by what it says maybe someone could suggest which previous challenges i should look at to help me with this?