There is a new account I created that I put 100 Steem into. The first one to figure out the username and password from the clues below can feel free to transfer the Steem to their own account.
This contest is open until someone figures it out. The password will be much harder to figure out than the account name.
Have fun
Account
74 72 65 61 73 75 72 65 35 35
Password
4c 32 71 43 73 5a 64 43 4d 67 6b 4f 33 52 59 65 68 73 74 72 4d 4d 77 4b 67 72 4f 66 36 7a 48 67 4b 76 6a 52 6b 4e 6c 71 6c 7a 74 6b 6b 5a 62 33 43 32 45 45 72 4b 74 58 36 37 43 70 6f 68 4a 73
Hello guys
!popcorn
Got it. Not gonna claim :-). Have fun y'all.
This is some stuff I can get behind, nice initiative!
Do this again in the future and I'll toss some into the ring to sweeten the deal.
EDIT: Spoke too soon!
Prove it by sending to my account. lol
Will you work with us to create a weekly contest for the @steemitweekly?
Take it if you figured it out.
It was taken by @hakancelik. What was the encryption of the password?
Spoke too soon! Converted the username, thought the same thing for the password followed/didn't login and was wrong, nice one!
LOL, I suspected that was the case :)
I'm actually surprised it was found so fast.
Yeah that was quick. I sat down, saw the post and was like WTF this is just hex. Converted the username and got treasure55, surely enough that was it and was like "Ok, I get it, cool, someone will nab 100 Steem." Straight up bizarro world someone would reverse the string and convert to ROT13 on a hunch . . . I don't see the logic.
well it is commonly used CaesarCrypt in Python with offset=13.
But I guess I would not have thought about the "reverse string".
And before having a look at the ASCII-Codes, I would have parsed the blockchain for recently created accounts with 100 STEEM :-)
Well the formatting was a dead giveaway for hex, so I check the username and got @treasure55 immediately. I was assuming Marky was keeping it simple and thought the pass followed as easily as the username, but I was wrong! I actually got to the point of reversing it and just kinda hail mary'ed it (forward and back) trying to find out what algorithm hashed it (was gonna try to crack it). I ran it through LM, NTLM, md2, md4, md5, md5(md5_hex), md5-half, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512, ripeMD160, whirlpool, MySQL 4.1+ (sha1(sha1_bin)), and a few other checks. NO DICE!
In terms of caesar ciphers, I always though of ROT1, ROT2, ROT3, and so on, but haven't even thought about them since I was a kid doing it by hand haha.
Hahahaha - "some people" do stuff like this with starting from C64, Atari and otheres for more 30 years - daily :-)
Its gone!
!popcorn
Its an enigma code! Thats how itw orks! i figured it out!
DONE!
https://steemit.com/@hakancelik (found it)
@themarkymark thanks you for the contest.
Impressive, good find.
Quicker than I expected.
Mind leaving the password so others can continue to play?
too late, I just saw your message, so I told them how to find it :( sorry
!popcorn
Well done!
simply change it and place a another 100 STEMM fg
You should announce early to allow more people to join. We have a time-shift and lot of quite good guys are busy hacking other stuff most hours of the day :-)
Got 100 Steem?
here my 1st 3 cent!
cannot afford at this moment. But I like the idea - and maybe....
I backtracked the name but what was the letter coding used? Is that some kind of programmer language or what? I just want to know becuase I like puzzles
congrats @hakancelik
!popcorn
nice
@hakancelik found it. Now he's obliged to tell us how he did it! :D
(Congratulations, btw.)
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too late. it's hex to ascii...
If only it was so easy.
Will you give us the solution? (Since 2 people already did it...)
I'm so curious! :D I want to know too.
I'm on it!
The user-name was an easy guess, but I think you fooled me well with the password.
@hakancelik what was the solution?
Puzzles for the mind keep us sharp.
What a contest. Brainstorming begins
This hurts my head...
Same.
Im part of the way there, though if i figure it out, ill just leave it for the next person.
If you figure it out first, have at it. But I think you are a lot further away from it than you think :)
When I say part.. a fraction of a part. But time for work soo
Maybe it will still be there when you get off.
Daz is not hex for both?
Hex for both but the password has another level of encryption.
yeah just could not figure which hash but then again maybe it was salted with the public key but was fun think it over now will need to read up on some tools that could make life easier haha was googling like a beast.
an un-reversible hash is very unlikely. It was solved too quickly for that. I was trying some symmetric encryption methods but failed to do it on time.
md5 sha etc I imagine could work lol one point I thought heck maybe it is a base64 image haha but no real luck just end up with more nonsense, I thought ok maybe a cypher eliminate number that appears in the name or something that if you had the public key it could work. Going to google symmetric encryption :) I just kept to the ones I know we get used for passwords mostly etc. too basic but damn just want to know the answer now lol
The account is easy. Figuring out the password. :D Lel. I don't think I'll take it.
Yep, account is easy :)
That's pretty cool and generous of you!
Apparently someone was faster than me :D
It hasnt been taken yet.. keep at it.
It hasn't been taken yet.
Cool idea. I'm just too lazy to try it lol
treasure55 nice post
What an Awesome Idea! Good luck everyone...
I tried following pwd: 1234 ... No luck for me, haha
It has been 30 minutes and no one has claimed the money.
Did someone claim it? I got it, but it says wrong password.
Yeap, someone just claimed it. It was two levels for the password, hex was only the first one.
more than two :)
This was a fun brain puzzle, even if I wasn’t fast enough.
I’ll go back to speedrunning Mega Man X now
rot5 + 13?
Oh, wow. 🙃🙃 Will you tell what the encryption methods were? I'm super curious about it. I really wanted to solve it but was too ignorant of the ways of the world.
I'm too late :(
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Great concept markymark.
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I've thought of trying something similar, but at a lower amount, but don't have the skills to pull this off. Thanks for making it, I'll give it a go.
This was awesome...Wish I had seen this earlier. Is the password changed already?
I believe so.
Wow! Creative idea... Good luck guys!
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Nice contest and a creative way to give someone some steemy steem!
This is the best idea for a game ever.
Other than the fact that I'd never figure out that kind of a code.
I need like a Raiders of the Lost Ark kind of puzzle...
Oh yeah. It’s on!!!!!!!
Reads comments.
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Fuck me and everything I thought I was going to accomplish in life.
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Very well done. I like it!
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nice contest
!popcorn
wow this is maybe one of the most creative things I've seen on here
Um, can I just get a big upvote?