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[PUZZLE] http://vaporlofts.com/floor1c.jpg (strings)

**Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:43 am

vixen · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Tennessee

Hi! I am new to this also, but have gone through most of the information that has been gathered already.
Have these 2 lines been decoded yet? I am not able to find it on the forum if they have been.
If not, I think it may be encoded in base64, but it doesn't look like ASCII encoded in base64.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:30 pm

Corwin · Boot Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 31 Location: California

Kind of a lurker here, but a thought occured to me-- The strings are probably just encrypted somehow, but they look to me almost like the end of a URL for a forum page. There aren't any capitalized letters usually, but none-the-less.

Just a thought.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:10 am

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Welcome, vixen!
No, they have not. That's what this thread is for. Wink

And the puzzle index thread would have been updated.
But it was suggested there that it's base64 , I think. Haven't looked into any of that myself, yet.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:35 pm

pantingpants · Boot Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Massachusetts

this has got to be Base64, no?

"Base64 only uses 6 bits (corresponding to 2^6 = 64 characters) to ensure encoded data is printable and humanly readable. None of the special characters available in ASCII are used. The 64 characters (hence the name Base64) are 10 digits, 26 lowercase characters, 26 uppercase characters as well as '+' and '/'...The Base64 padding character is '='. Naturally, it can only ever appear at the end of encoded data." (linky)

I took the first 4 characters of the string and played around with them a bit...

**Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:35 pm

Caspian

baby step

**Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:17 am

Abraxas

Hm, I'm not sure...I have reason to believe these strings are not encrypted with base64 or a hash at all and they are actually just another ROT-ed version of the Gibberish Key (rowan72 TM).
There's another longer string hidden in floorplans.html and we suppose it's encrypted with the Algorithm-Chaining-Hash-method, aren't we?
If so, there must be some instructions on how to crack the darned thing. The picture could seen as being connected to that page. And probably those strings tell us about the encryption method.

Or perhaps it does contain the information to crack the one on floorplans.html, but it's encrypted in yet another way...

**Posted:** Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:21 pm

rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

**Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:34 pm

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May I add that the transcription might be wrong? I don't know about the rest of you, but I seriously can't tell whether or not the vertical-line characters are supposed to be an 'l' or an 'I'.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:22 pm

follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

Good point.

Great choice of font, there, Vapor.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:45 am

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The typeface is Eurostyle, if anyone was wondering, and yes, the lowercase L and the uppercase I are pretty much indistinguishable.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:51 pm