I’ve posted it in the previous page, some hours ago, then on the IRC, and nobody stopped to read it 
The image existed at least in may 2012, check the end of this video, the website from where it came is a snapshot of the end of this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxANzFdVegk
Nope.
Nope, doesn’t work. I’ve even checked page’s code just to be sure - there is nothing in it, only text.
But the page is in PHP, that’s not visible to the public.
hmm, then maybe unpadded RSA could be the answer, being hinted at by the BENALOHPAILLIER (homomorphic encryption), and not being implemented (as unpadded) in openssl.
IMHO looking for something in the EAS background will lead ud to a dead end, since another user hashed it and the thumbnail of a Youtube video (you can find the pic with Google by searching emergency broadcast system) and well, the two hashes are identical. Now, I find very weird that there’s something related to this ARG in a Youtube thumbnail of a video that doesn’t relate at all with Black Mesa.
Hey all. Completely new to the ARG, didn’t even realize this was going on.
After reading for the past few hours, I wanted to point out something that everyone else has seemed to gloss over.
According to the wiki stormseeker had the following on his steam profile:
“There is an answer, but you can’t brute force it, the CIA couldn’t brute force it.”
The part that strikes me the most is “the CIA couldn’t brute force it”. Couldn’t brute force what?
Has anyone looked into this? Maybe some historical event that might point us in the right direction? I didn’t see anything suggesting any interest in that statement here in the thread.
I know next to nothing on the subject of cryptography, so if this unhelpful or invalid just ignore my rambling.
He means the CIA would be unable to Brute Force the 752 Hex Code if they tried
Hmm. I guess I was thinking more in a different context. ‘It’ being the encryption method, and ‘couldn’t’ meaning ‘not at the time’ or in past tense.
I guess its valid to say ‘the cia couldn’t (if they tried)’, but something about the symantics seems weird to me. It just seemed like a weird way to phrase it.
There’s no context given in the statement, so when I read it I wasn’t thinking in relation to the 752 code directly.
Maybe I’m just reading too far into it.
Has anyone noticed that the code is repeated, if you view it when the full page is up you can see the repeating pattern.
FzFu3QhOouYt26AUmIuR0BJ1FzCpiLkdASdRcwFu3QpMRcjoJduhSYi5HQASdRcxbt0ITqLmLdugFJiLkdASdMCHRcwqYi5HQEnUXMBbt0KTEXI6CXboUmIuR0AEnUXMW7dCE6i5i3boBSYi5HQEnUXMKmIuR0BJ1FzAW7dCkxFyOgl26FJiLkdABJ1
there also 4-5 sections in the middle of that repeating that isnt the same and has either less or fewer characters.
I think is related to this: https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/28/7458159/encryption-standards-the-nsa-cant-crack-pgp-tor-otr-snowden
That’s base64, if it is the binary data from the image of the EAS message, it has nothing, it was taken from a youtube video and it has not been modified.
Quote directly from that article
“PGP encryption tools and OTR chat encryption also caused major problems for the agency,”
found this in Horn’s locker lol… jk
“Q: How long do you think it will take to solve the Pizza Code Mystery ARG?
A: Less than six months
(Ended 10/24/12)”
That cracks me up every time.
As for the ARG, I’ve got a document saved to my comp with the Kryptos K4 and the hex code–although I never got around to doing anything with it. I imagine Storm is referring to Kryptos with the CIA comment, but I could be wrong.
I did some digging on that very thing today, and as it turns out, one hint of the fourth, unsolved Kryptos puzzle is that part of it decodes to “Berlin Clock” - the creator of the code has said that people should focus their efforts on said clock, and others in Berlin, to solve Kryptos.
Perhaps the hex code also has something to do with Mengenlehreuhr?
Talking about clocks, I thought of 14 segments displays, or 16 segments displays, they use 7bit encoding with custom tables that have two encodings for each letter, that would make a stream of the data have relatively high entropy, not sure if high enough. And they’re related to time. I’ve looked into a pair of encodings but neither of them yield any result. Though that’s just an encoding, it’s not encryption.
The Kryptos guy only revealed that clue last year, so it’s extremely unlikely Storm had this insight when he encrypted Halos.
Agreed. Although I like that we are starting to think outside the box on this one. Hopefully this time it will spur something.