I know. Also, I imagine nobody looked into the freeman smiley 
Cigarette smoking man, anyone? If it is Cubic Sieve Method then primes are involved, that would mean that the code was encrypted with a Public Key System. But searching for a large prime itās not really feasible, unless it was given without anyone noticing it and we already have it.
Thereās also Crypto Service Manager https://www.autosar.org/download/R4.0/AUTOSAR_SWS_CryptoServiceManager.pdf
or even āi see S Mā
well the pizza has been unlocked, so we are done here
i gues the halos code itzelf is just as āred herringā its nothing but random bytes
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How the hell isnāt this solved yet?
My hopes are high when I see the āunread messageā box next to the ARG thread. I click on it, and all I see is the āHow the hell isnāt this solved yetā comment. I am then sad. The quick answer to your question is that we have no idea how to.
becase maybe it are just random bytes
no real clues, combined with a crap ton of red herrings. I donāt think this will ever be solved.
ICSM can stand for International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism. Also, seems like itās a direct hint - try googling āicsm niobiumā - probably some of the results may be relevant to ARG.
This was the first result when I googled āicsm niobiumā, so Iām afraid thatās a bit of a dead end.
BWOOOOOOOOOOONG.
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This became the first result, since this message was posted, maybe try checking out other results? There are lots of mentionings of niobium in context of icsm confrernce.
Since there hasnāt been any progress with the ARG, for a long time and stormseeker does not give clues for free, Iām going to try and win one withā¦ Drumroll limericks!
There once was a black mesa ARG
So difficult nobody could solve it.
There were no clues
The players were fools
Wait! Arenāt limericks supposed to be funny?
Who in the world would have thought
The limerick thing would not work?
But since Iām spanish
This is not surprising.
with this, twice I forgot the joke.
Ohā¦ this is a pitiful disaster!
He will make the puzzles even harder!
Iām sorry mates
this wonāt happen again.
and the lack of jokes goes even farther.
I will try to fix this with the last one,
By making a funny joke at least once,
what has three arms
and attacks you on sight?
This is a riddle! Not a joke! Iām a twat.
[Instead of twat you can put there another word that starts with c and rhymes with one and once]
There once was an ARG
and players could play for free
it was rather tough
and gave people gruff
And I should really go do some laundry.
There once was a poet named AngelSG
Who wrote a bad poem about an ARG
He thought he was a he
But in reality was a she
All because her breasts were absentee.
hahahaha!
Hmmmm
So your hint is that you gave us a hint somewhere?
its seems strange to me the way stormseeker reply and the fact that the first letter of the second to the fourth line are āIā
Maybe something in terminator III?
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