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| rlp6028 |
Mine is like that too. I thought they were all like that, since the one shown on the card catalog appears to have the purplish tint to it also.
http://www.perplexcitycardcatalog.com/1/251/  Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:53 pm |
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| mtdew |
Misprint? Printing error?
Sorry if this is a bit off topic (Has nothing to do with a solve...or five cows for that matter). I recently got a copy of this card and was wondering if anyone else had seen anything similar. It looks like a printing error, the purplish background color has been printed over the entire card, including the silver border. It makes the border a shiny purple color instead of the normal silver. It is also difficult to see the pixel pattern. I was just curious if anyone else had seen something like this? It would be kind of neat if it was a one of a kind.
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:04 pm |
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| BrianEnigma |
Re: Something to think about...
It's actually strikingly similar to a great many things. That's the standard programmer/techie way of printing binary data as hex--each pair of characters is a byte. Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:22 pm |
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| TheQuestion |
Something to think about...
Forgive if this has been covered before, I did a search and didn't find anything. Working for an ISP, something jumped out at me when I saw this card. The syntax (groups of two alphanumeric characters, 0-9 and A-F) is strikingly similar to a WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key. Has anyone pursued this option at all? Granted, even if it is a key (or series of keys), it's useless without knowing what network it is to be applied to... but something to think about nonetheless.
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:54 pm |
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| angadeon |
Boolean functions
I've just slogged through the whole 34 pages hoping for inspiration or something. meh.
But I did want to point out one thing. George Boole, considered the father of computational mathematics, died on December 8, 1864. I know someone mentioned him before, but nothing else was said about it. I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't overlooked by those coder types that might get something from it. <--- running the Labour13 program on all available work and home computers - all appropriate appendages crossed. Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:25 pm |
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| Macavity |
Just on the off-chance that I might be able to get some ideas, I recently took out a one-year subscription to 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Now, so far there've been no articles that have any bearing on 13th Labour, but I did try another channel.
Specificdally, I've sent out a few snail-mail and email letters to some of the people whose addresses I've found in 2600, giving them the rundown on AO13 and asking their advice. Today, I received my first response (this came from a guy whose compliation CD I purchased a while back to use as mind fuel during late-night brainstorming sessions):
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:38 pm |
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| Sardo |
lol
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:12 pm |
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| Diluted Dante |
has anyone thought of trying 'FIVECOWS' as the key?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:54 pm |
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| themandotcom |
Also, RCCRYPT is a program used to encrypt/ decrypt the RC5 algorithim, which basically changes the plaintext in some way that is wayyyy too complicated to explain. So we are trying every possible key, so far to no avail. This is known as brute forcing! We know the key is 8 letters long, so we are guessing everyone.
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:17 am |
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| FranG |
I'm probably not the best person to answer any of your questions, but I can't resist asking about elephant & bananana. Why those?
As to the code cracking, there's another thread for this card that's more oriented toward the combined assault. Look down the list and you should see it. Until the Wave 4 cards pushed everything down it was usually near the top. Here's a link to the site for the client: http://13thlabour.tk/ Join in. Just download the program and start it running. We're over 50% complete now. Google rccrypt and you can read about the underlying program. There's also an online key tester and a compiled program, but I don't remember the addresses. They're somewhere in the other thread. None of these give much in the way of feedback. They also have puzzles with card prizes on the Live Journal at the above link. Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:35 am |
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| mqpippin |
I think I'm going into Labour!
I've just spent at least 10 hours wading thru the posts here. Sadly, I'm more lost than when I started. Can you or ANYONE slap me in the right direction. I'm trying to find out any of the following: 1) What is the algorythm/mathematical function/whatever that is defined as "rccrypt"? I know that it somehow involves substituting something somewhere for a certain number of times. My most perfect answer for this question would be in a way that I could sit down with paper and pencil and ENCODE something using my own key. Not that I'd really do that, but I would like it explained that technically. (My goal is to write something of my own to work this out - mostly for FUN). A link to something like this would be fine even, but please, not back to distributed.net.... *whimper* 2) I see many mentions of some group attempting "brute force" decoding. Where can I go to help? Where can I see their progress if they are sharing it? Is there some kind of "seti - boinc" type project? If so, I'd obviously ditch the idea of question #1 except as academic research.... 3) Is there somewhere a COMPILED .exe that I can run on a Windows XP machine that shows me progress (keys tried, or every 100th decrypt display it, or SOMETHING other than it just finishing eventually? If not a compiled version, is there a post that you can shunt me back to that explains how to set up something on my XP machine? I also have access to a couple of Unix servers if there's a .ksh or a perl script 4) Has the key "elephant", "bananana" or "banacowphantbulb" been tried?  Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:55 am |
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| Purdy |
First post
this is my first post so be kind if I open myself up for a trout-slapping..
Anyways my two pence worth; I was trying all sorts of combinations (lust opus etc.) and anything I could find relating to Hercules or a 13th task, but then it was revealed to me that his (wicked) step-mother Hera was a goddess most commonly associated with cattle and is often described as cow-faced etc (I know some people who fit that description) but there is a story in which a baby Hercules bit Hera as she was breast-feeding him and the resultant mess is what gave us the milky-way (there is also a story that takes place just after being released from the 12 tasks that involves a stolen cow and a King Eurythus and Eurythus gave me a SysEx file which is quite exciting as a) I'd not got that one before and b) I still don't know what it is lol) needless to say I have tried these in the ASCII convertor and to no avail, not any help I know but I wanted to contribute something (especially as the code thing is outta my league) I hope this is new information for people wether it's useful or not... well. It is my first day, and I fear the rest of my life...
oh and hello everyone! Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:34 pm |
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| QBKooky |
Yeah, people have tried a whole bunch of cow-like combinations (as well as many others), but Mind Candy has pretty much said we're doing it the correct way - since they estimated it would take x many computers y many months, that implies it must be brute-forced in this manner, because if it were just a matter of guessing the key, someone would have gotten it by now.
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| Teebor |
I've dedicated two more machines to the mix (I will try and get more but no promises)
I don't have the card myself yet but so far I have been quite lucky with silvers (or should that be unlucky  )
Given the cows and their refence to dstributed.net has anyone considered a key like tucows? (bearing in mind I have only read about half this thread yet) or the very obvious five cows? Its just from the silvers I have done (and blacks) the answer is always easier than it appears, and is usually staring you in the face  Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:10 am |
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| Demzon |
sorry, I was just posting what I found that I didn't notice as duplicated. Maby I blanked it out as it has been repeated so many times.
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:07 pm |
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