Anybody have founded hidden things on Blast Pit?
The pizza box has logos that are usually on electronics. Could this be relevant?
I donât like that we donât have a letter for the puzzle that gave us 0851. I do believe we are missing something about it (the colors of the pictures, the 14x14 checkered floor, the 244 chairs, idk). This does, however, give credit to 1404 as the other key. Problem is, I donât think anybody knows how to use them at this point, so we should start discussing it.
First thing to keep in mind is that we are expecting 4 keys of 4 numbers giving us a perfect square of digits. Considering the puzzles so far, we should keep that in mind. Another thing to note is that we have 5 groups of 5 numbers per line in the long unsolved cipher, which is pretty standard for radio transmissions, so it could mean nothing by itself, but could also be related to the puzzle.
Yeah, I concur on all points. It seems like weâre almost there, but weâre missing something big.
Oh, got it. The âCascade ciphersâ in that board DO refer to multiple encryption passes. The example given is to make 1AES (Advanced Encryption Standard, 12F (TwoFish), 1SP (Serpent), as in https://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=cascades . Which is weird, since all of these shouldnât exist in BMâs time.
Nobody cares about anachronisms, just start decoding! 
But I heard AES still hasnât been cracked, does that mean you have to crack the most secure cypher to day in order to solve this ARG?
Created an account just to post thisâ
When you take the wrong combination of portals when youâre ascending the reactor, you end up in a room with some scientists and the barney in there tells you âoh, I thought you were the pizza guyâ
I think the # combo is 249 or something
No, if it is related to the ARG (it still could not be) it probably means we have to use some key (abcd?) on some data encrypted using serpent, twofish and aes altogether.
I doubt it. I think the key has already been given:
I may be entirely wrong, but thats my hunch.
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That one has already been noted, and probably isnât part of the ARG, unfortunately.
So been noclipping and there are Pizza boxes everywhere. Found 3 in about 20 minutes by just loading up old save-points which are placed in âimpossible to reachâ areas so I think this was just the mod guys having a bit of fun. I wouldnât be suprised if there was one hidden somewhere on every map. Someone referred to a CE note on the bottom of a Pizza box. Well there was a CE code on a copy of an invoice on a bulletin board with the number 0682.
Also found 2 purple hatsâŚ
Maybe this is the data we need:
00101001001000000010111101110111111101100011110111111111110001110011101111100011101111111111101001110111001011110000010101000110001001110111000110011011010111101011001000011011101100110000100111001110...EDIT: Forget about this, itâs wrong. Does anyone have any idea how to convert that decimal sequence into binary so we can then make it into a file for decryption?
Well that makes sense. When I posted I posted that it appears to say 12F and 1SP or 15P. Some people actually write 5s that look like Ss. But it appears that noting that in my post few pages back pointing what that said out is putting on the right track.
Was there a letter near the CE code, like B or D? Also whatâs a CE code?
Heâs referring to the CE logo I noticed on the bottom of the pizza box:
This symbol is found on a lot of electronics.
Ah, yeah. Thatâs a possible connection, or maybe the pizza box just recycled some textures from an electronics box.
This is really interesting, but I doubt the âthis is some important textâ one is relevant because Iâm sure I saw the same texture in the alpha leak 5 years ago.
Good to know. Can anyone with encryption knowledge try to use all the numbers that we have so far with the Cascade cipher?
I made an account here just so I could point out that perhaps the map isnât referring to the sections of the lab, but rather the locations of the code parts. For example, code D is in lab C.
I hope that was understandable.