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by mcjohn
Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:44 am
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Telnet (how to use it)
Replies: 6
Views: 12248

Thanks for the reply's guys. Unfortunately I am still stuck. I mainly need this for a range problem. To be more clear, Telstar for example, starts with a small windows that asks to type in the host, to which I type in www.hacker.org and it always says "could not open connection to the host on p...
by mcjohn
Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:29 am
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Telnet (how to use it)
Replies: 6
Views: 12248

Telnet (how to use it)

Hi, I've been spending all night trying to learn how to use telent (I have windows xp) but I can't figure it out. Dos comes with microsoft telnet but seems to have limited capabilities. I have downloaded telstar and some other programs but none seem to work for me. I simply would like to know, in la...
by mcjohn
Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:47 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: V.I.L.E.
Replies: 15
Views: 36206

This challenge has been updated/changed slightly so make sure you refresh your screen. The answer is still the same and with either version the challenge is solvable. (but now less confusion I hope).

John
by mcjohn
Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:47 pm
Forum: Challenges Solved
Topic: V.I.L.E.
Replies: 12
Views: 948

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. I certainly didn't expect there to be confusion on the area codes as I had checked two sources when doing this (wikipedia, not always a great source, was not one of them). What I've since learned is that some countries changed their area codes recently and this has...
by mcjohn
Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:49 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: V.I.L.E.
Replies: 15
Views: 36206

Hey guys, I created this challenge. There is unfortunately some confusion on the answer itself that probably only those who have solved it will understand. I have sent an email just now to very slightly apart of the question to hopefully correct this and asked that once it be fixed the administrator...
by mcjohn
Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:12 am
Forum: Challenges
Topic: McCormick
Replies: 11
Views: 18260

McCormick

Hey guys, I'm having trouble solving the challenge McCormick (the crypto challenge with letters: f,m,p only). I'm sure "McCormick" is a big clue and a google search shows it can be many things like a restaurant, distilling company, tractor manufacturer, church, convention center, painting ...
by mcjohn
Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:01 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Challenge 'Steganographic' HELP....
Replies: 37
Views: 48649

This challenge is really starting to annoy me. I've used steg tools and IrFranview and rotated, sharpened, changed colors, etc of the image but still don't see anything. It seems a few clues have already been given here but if someone would kindly suggest another or private message me if you think t...
by mcjohn
Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:30 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: The Powers That Be
Replies: 19
Views: 29153

Karen's power tools calculator has come in handy for this and other challenges; it allows for long values.
by mcjohn
Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:21 am
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Didactic XOR Cipher
Replies: 6
Views: 13214

omg.. finally realized that the converter I used to change 3d2e212b20226f3c2a2a2b into binary didn't include all the final digits so it was actually slightly smaller than it was supposed to be.
by mcjohn
Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:51 am
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Didactic XOR Cipher
Replies: 6
Views: 13214

I've been doing the whole thing by hand; it's driving me nuts that it's not working. Adding the binary of 79 to the binary of the given string and then converting it to ascii is the (or one of) the ways this challenge can be solved, correct?
by mcjohn
Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:13 am
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Didactic XOR Cipher
Replies: 6
Views: 13214

Didactic XOR Cipher

Hi, This challenge doesn't seem hard but I'm not getting the right answer so looking for a push in the right direction. It's the one where you XOR decimal 79 with hex 3d2e212b20226f3c2a2a2b I converted the hex to binary and broke it up into groups of 8 where I manually XOR'd them with decimal 79 (al...