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Welcome, cryptanalyst

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Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#51
post #48

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> HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=0.02 Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:32:12 GMT Server: Google Frontend Set-Cookie: session=(snip); Path=/; HttpOnly X-Firefox-Spdy: 3.1 Nope. Might be geo-locked or something.

Look at the response body, the 403 i got had a nice html error message attached.

  Content-Length: 0 
:-|

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#52
I passed the crossword! If you fill in the blanks with, say, "a" you can check your answers as you go.

I'm now facing a small coding challenge: 48 hours to come up with code with Python or Java (my choice).

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#53
post #44
post #33

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I got to that site through this movie trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sX... if you look at the paper at 3 second mark you can see the address "146.148.62.204". But now i wonder if its somehow connected with google

It is also on the blackboard at the end (around 0:57), and possibly on some other places. Google "sponsoring" them in exchange of putting an IP address in their trailer is something I would absolutely see them do.

also at blackboard at 0:10 and 0:26, and at a paper sheet at 0:12

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#54
post #23

This game is not working correctly on my browser (FF33). I tried several times and waited until the end because nothing was happening... then tried with chromium and it did work :-/ (btw noscript is turned off)

Same here. FF 33.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.

I wish they had the courtesy to put up a "Sorry, your browser is not supported" instead of having me answering everything and then finding out it doesn't work.

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#57

This is entrance to foobar. It is pretty easy to figure out crossword using either a calculator to convert bases or (wolfram alpha for the lazy) and [0] for regex. I have not used regex in years, but got in easy. [0] http://www.regexr.com/ . Hint mouse over regex after you type it for explanation of what will match, try it out in the text editor below. Fairly trivial.

Semi-related, Google does base conversions too. You can type "8660 in hexadecimal" in Google and get the answer. Seems strangely appropriate since this is a Google game.

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#60
Kinda surprised to be challenged like that suddenly, but managed to pull through with my (t)rusty regex-foo.

Foobar is fun and well made! Passed the first challenge in a few minutes and will continue tomorrow. Try to start challenges on foobar only when you want the timer to start (e.g., not when you need to go to bed like me..). Thou shan't worry much on the first challenge though, it allows for 48 hours.

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