Thread: The Glory of Ascension

My my it has been a long time.



I present you a challenge of a lifetime.

If you deem yourself worthy of immortality step up and take it.

It is within your grasp.

Or bow down before the might that is the Exalted.

If the path is clear go. A clue to help you on your way.

Clue:
You read them every time you visit but they are not threads. They are the first thing you see, but its the numbers that interest me. Once you have the key you can fish for the cipher.

6CD78DFCB3CFB6CAE17FC63E8805C694
839B2DC2A481D33A9006BEE17AB2DB0B
D97A7E5C3CEFFE07CACE63F4F511465C
9E95569D091F02EBA9EE804F67E398DC
44F1DA5EB8D59C380183A945975DEA8B
A024A810A8284679DD128A31AE65292F
8A78D3D088D0D4FB011940580AE3492B
009EB3DC528F8099609D6D14E636ABB5
1140CDAFAA4234AC8D293881203B3C79
B85A61EE93750723CD0F594FC3B12DDC
C3F70788B0A95C51EB0ED465BB9E2187
2D3B91791BDE23C37208A73A0F2E8DD5
A38B9701DEA6EB16CC719485F1018213
36336A53697D96130886B71E4423E698
E733186210BABB4EB7144B27251D14AD
23CEEE9C22449FF5E77C95CAFC87D36A
77C02B7674823CDEE86EB11B04EC4AEF
79B6D67830EF0604C90CE102A60C7E76
85816FC9829F52085062C5A9E5F9F149

PM answers to the esteemed mistress of the Exalted, the lovely and ever powerful TankGirl

Now open to public solving

=D

Sorry about it being closed before.

Re opened!

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Well, You read them every time you visit but they are not threads,

could be PM's ( 500 number of maximum PM's) or igiver notification.

They are the first thing you see, but its the numbers that interest me :

i'm thinking of the calendar on the home page...

The message seem to be coded in hexadecimal, using 0-9 and A-F

i tried to change ABCDEF for IGIVER,
and 0123456789 for REPUTATION by simple changing the letters clearly not gonna be that easy and ended up with a jumble with lots of 'i's but if you have the brain power (i clearly dont) using hexadecimal seems as though it could be the way!

I did a frequency analysis on the ciphertext, treating each hex number as a letter, but unfortunately I didn't get back the standard frequency for English text.

Total unique hex numbers: 187
Maximum frequency hex number '23' : 4 times

Since we have 187 letters instead of 26, we could either have each letter of the english alphabet represented with more than one hex number, or nulls... or both :D

EDIT (some more thoughts): This flamy guy says that he is interested in the numbers. This ciphertext is static and the same for all of us, which means that the key to it must be a number that must not change (at least not for the duration of the contest) and that it is global and same for all of us... so it can't be PMs or IGiver because we all have different numbers there. Date changes all the time, so scratch that.. the only thing that I could find so far that also kind of fits in the riddle is the version of the forum software and the copyright numbers.

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I could be totally wrong, but I think the idea of finding global numbers that are the same for all, should be correct

Originally Posted by nik

I did a frequency analysis on the ciphertext, treating each hex number as a letter, but unfortunately I didn't get back the standard frequency for English text.

Total unique hex numbers: 187
Maximum frequency hex number '23' : 4 times

Since we have 187 letters instead of 26, we could either have each letter of the english alphabet represented with more than one hex number, or nulls... or both :D

ahhhhhhhhh this is mind baffling but thanks for the tip.

yea i gave up sometime last night, who ever gets this one is 100% worthy of exalted status.

Originally Posted by Corynn

yea i gave up sometime last night, who ever gets this one is 100% worthy of exalted status.

You are d**n right my friend!This cipher is awesome!
BTW it may look impossible or very hard,but it's not.Just think deep guys and don't give up.
The small and simple things matter here.
Jekata out!