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Guys, I may have solved the large number code:
I used an RSA algorithm solver with the following data, taken from the computer monitor with the āThis is some important textā message. I solved the equations listed, and came up with ā537, -111, 131ā
I used the following inputs for the algorithm:
p = 131
q = 537
Which gave:
n = 70347
k = 766481
r = 69680
That came up with:
e = 131
d = 5851
When I used the code, it all solved out to be ā2Dā (the D in caps)
When you look at the inputs, two of the numbers I solved for from the computer monitor are thereāp and e = 131; q = 537.
Iām pretty sure this isnāt just a fluke, as usually it just resolves down to a large jumble of letters / symbols.
Could potentially be Code D?
EDIT: I know itās not much to go on, and could be pure coincidence, so if someone could double-check my math, please do.
Nah, thatās the āThese Tiesā email he was talking about, this article is something differentāan article about quantum physics. I agree with everybody else though that itās pretty certainly unrelated.
Sorry guns, but youāre waaay off the mark there. Weāve pretty much confirmed the number code as a VIC cipher. NOT RSA.
But has that actually been confirmed? It seems like weāre basing that off of a whole ton of happenstance that seems to fit together well.
As noted before, MANY ciphers use 5-digit groups.
Perhaps one of the guys behind all this (Storm) could give us a nod in the right direction regarding what I solved? It seems too perfect to not be, but like I said it could be a fluke
Edit: In all seriousness though, we donāt necessarily need a nod. I guess I just feel like the VIC cypher might be related to something else, or perhaps not at all. It was a very abstract deduction that led to that theory; whereas the RSA suggestion was directly on a whiteboard. It just seems like the VIC might come into play later, but may not be directly related to Lab Dās code.
Of course the whiteboard could just be there to throw off the scent. Hard to say haha this is TOUGH
Seriously, this ARG hasnāt seen much progress in what, 24 hours? Iāve watched a lot of ARGs unfold and thatās just not normal.
Devs need to give us a lil nudge in the right direction either through a ātrollā account or something on this site.
been said before but:
The RSA comment was right next to comments representing other ciphers (2F=twofish SP=serpent and AES = advanced encryption standard) as well as suggesting the RSA uses a 1024/2048 bit Key (128/256 characters long)ā¦now donāt get me wrong, Iām hoping that something weāve picked up on is gonna be the overall solution, whether itās an implementation of VIC or RSAā¦ Iām leaning towards VIC now (I did like yourself waste hours on RSA) because the huge amount of data on the whiteboards seems to be just filler except for the two obvious ciphertexts AND because we have two seemingly likely hints in clue C.
With regards to your maths, e and n have to be coprime. p is a factor of n and you have e = p, so itās not coprime Iām afraid. 
EDIT: Also I think weāre on the right track somewhere because otherwise we most likely would have heard something from the devs by now, weāre stalled because no-one has been able to code a proper VIC decoder yet and the one on the net isnāt a fully featured implementation, not sure if we still have a guy working on it since heās been afk all day 
If anyone else can code, then drop me a line on IRC, Iām 100% upto scratch on how it worksā¦butā¦I canāt code myself
Argh youāre rightāe and the totient of n arenāt coprime.
Crud.
Ah well, back to the drawing board.
Itās quite normal. I once took part in an variant ARG called Torment by Greengecko over on the Unforum site that carried on like this for years. In fact it never got solved, that had far harder puzzles.
Pretty sure he has already. It is not usually the way of ARGs to have the creator pop in and tell you what to do next. Look harder, and think outside the box. Iām sure the terminal site will have something to do with it.
Think we can pretty much forget my previous postā537 isnāt a prime number to start with.
Iām still curious what DORN is from the terminal page.
Iām pretty sure the first number would have been 535 anyway. Itās really hard to see on those monitors, but I think the first operation is ā283 + 252ā¦ā
Hereās a pic of the monitor with brightness/contrast adjusted for readability. Judge for yourself:
I thought it was a 5 at first as well. but now I think itās a 3.
EDIT:
Pretty sure itās DRHORN and not DORN. Do a ctrl+f and match the cases for just R and H individually. Theyāre there in order and capitalized, just not all bolded, donāt know why that is. Maybe stormseeker thought they blended in too much when they were just capitalized, so he bolded only those letter for readability. Iām just guessing though.
Everyoneās been interested in that āthis is some important textā terminal. about a week before Black Mesa was released, I was playing Half-Life: Source: Ultimate Definition and saw that same texture numerous times. Iāll get a screenshot in a secā¦
EDIT:
So, in that sense, the terminal means nothing. Hmmmmm
Wow thatās really bizarre. I wonder how that texture made it across 2 mods. Thanks for showing it to me though. That means I can finally give up on it and stop wasting my time, and focus my efforts elsewhere.
I wonder though how on Earth that texture made it across two modsā¦
EDIT:
Actually all those screen textures seem to be in the BMS materials files. Perhaps they were in the alpha leak and this āultimate definitionā stole them from that? I never bothered with that alpha leak so I have no evidence to base this on, just guessing.
It was probably free.
THANK YOU. Finally, we can discount this bloody image. Been wanting to kick it in the teeth for a while.
all it means is that whoever made HLs ultimate definition stole textures from alpha 5