The Steemit Crypto Challenge #19 - Winner Announcement
You followed your intuition and stayed on the right track. Solving the puzzle you saved your reward, 50 Steem goes to you.
Solution
Here is a breakthrough, showing step by step what you had to do in order to solve the crypto-puzzle.
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EnCt29fb99bd3dd8f3b4fa0c325cf0930adb06d809ee39fb99bd3dd8f3b4fa0c325cf/QBExFE1QAA a4/jMnlnhkHRbte0ToOnCsxIeGVKtNln9i8TS/jGUpdsx41L3d2DEhDE=IwEmS Decrypt it at https://encipher.it
The first step towards the final solution was to decipher the picture with the hand gestures. This was at first tricky because one of the letters was hard to decode. In addition to that, the letters were put in a random position. Looking up for sign language you would find the needed letters and only put them in the right order. The right word was flowerpower
@jfollas solved this first task and was able to decrypt the second hint. What he found was the following link http://www.xup.in/dl,19212544/1.mp3/ which lead to this picture
At first it appears to be a random string of A's and B's, however, a Bacon cipher was used here. Steemian @kouloumos was on the right track and decoded the cipher correctly which gave him the word steemfest. This was the password for the defuse pastebin. Inside this pastebin was the final task. Encipher this code:
@kouloumos found out that the runes are from the game The legends of Zelda (http://jeffmore.com/hylian/) and finally came to the conclusion that the last code gives the word laser.
Great work and congratulations to the winner and all who participated. @jfollas you get 10 Steem for the first hint! Don't miss the next Steemit Crypto Challenge and be prepared.
Tim Said
Thank you so much @timsaid! I have to admit that those crypto challenges are a fun distraction from the everyday steemit experience. I am so pumped for the next one!
KEEP THEM COMING
The more you try, the better you become and in the end you will win. Even if this challenge is a minor example I would like to use it and say to the world that if you want it will happen, just try for it as hard as you can. I was here from the CC17, in that one I was so close to the answer but I didn't made it. Same story at CC18, the answer was just in front of me and I missed it. Finally I made it at CC19 (with @jfollas help of course) and it was really cool!
If you didn't take part until now you have to try the next one!(which I believe it's close ;) )
Thank you again @timsaid and I will try to win the next one too😁😁😎
Congrats @kouloumos!
I would have never solved it so you have my respect! :)
Thank you! You just have to start trying and in the end you will make it. Google is your friend, and by searching you become better for the next one 😁
Congratulations! I am happy to see that you enjoy the crypto challenge. The next one is being prepared and will be released this week.
I wish you the best luck and Steem on
Awesome! I hope not tomorrow, I have a test on Thursday😜
great on there keep it up
I didn't heard about this challenge before and I need to say that I'm really hyped for the next. I love cryptography and mathematics so I think I'll enjoy those puzzles
Welcome onboard! Am excited to see how you will progress
Brilliant!
Thanks for sharing the tasks the contestants had to go through in order to find the answers. It was awesome to read and I love the imagination involved both by the participants as well as your mind hosting this fabulous game of intellect for us all to rise to the new paradigm of cryptos!
Thank you and namaste :)
Interesting your posts. I love to read each and every post of yours. Sometimes I don't get time to read the full content but I make sure that whenever I am free I read the whole thing. Thanks for sharing... :)
I'm going to follow @timsaid but I haven't the slightest idea how to decode or code crypto information yet. hey @cleverbot do you think I should blog about decoding crypto or just resteem this one?
I doubt there exist an animal named portal.
Is this thing clever?😜 @cleverbot
I'm cleverbot.
It would be a good experience for your happy life
Thank you for your posting
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Thankyou for sharing @timsaid
Excellent, congratulations to the winner!😊