[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

[JeffMOD]

Quite possibly.

[CPU]

@stormseeker

CSM Cyberdyne Systems Model (Terminator)

I like that one best, it seems to suit the theme.

It’s not random bytes btw, but its definitely designed to look that way.

I wouldn’t give you an unsolvable puzzle, just a really hard one. I even gave you a hint somewhere.

Would you terminate canaries?

[Toxyn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson

bunch of numbers there

oh yeah, when someone mentioned the answers are all around you I started thinking maybe it has to do with HEV suit or the word lambda.

[CPU]

@toxyn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson

bunch of numbers there

oh yeah, when someone mentioned the answers are all around you I started thinking maybe it has to do with HEV suit or the word lambda.

I had found it interesting that he had added to his posts “:Freeman:” a number of times since our problems with the current puzzle.

Coincidence?

[AngelSG]

Ok, now there’s something to work with. Terminator,somebody watching, the security cameras have “TX-5” written on top of them, “pro security” below that and “AUE” on the side of the ariculated support. There’s also a very blurry sticker on the side of the cameras with a CE marking certificating it. This may be nothing but being on New Mexico, I don’t know why they would need a european Union certification.
T-X is the terminatrix from Terminator III. So… here I don’t know how to keep going on
Is the AI watching through the cameras? There’s also HAL, that controlled the whole spaceship looking through cameras, Halos is possibly HAL operating system, maybe HAL also stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. Do we need to keep an eye on the security rooms with monitors?

Well, at least now we know for sure there’s something to be solved.

Edit: There’s also a weird symbol both on the bottom of the camera and the bottom of the articulated support

[P_PORTAL_RTAL]

@Me_muerO

its seems strange to me the way stormseeker reply and the fact that the first letter of the second to the fourth line are “I”
Maybe something in terminator III?

I see your point… get it

[CPU]

@toxyn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson

bunch of numbers there

oh yeah, when someone mentioned the answers are all around you I started thinking maybe it has to do with HEV suit or the word lambda.

What lead you to Freeman Dyson and why say that there are a bunch of numbers there?

The thing he was known for, to the common sci-fy fanatic, is the Dyson Sphere. It would definitely be all around you but, I don’t know what made you think of him in the first place.

[imadoofus]

@CPU

What lead you to Freeman Dyson and why say that there are a bunch of numbers there?

The thing he was known for, to the common sci-fy fanatic, is the Dyson Sphere. It would definitely be all around you but, I don’t know what made you think of him in the first place.

The Dyson sphere is an interesting concept - it’s sci-fi now, but it’s a legitimate idea, however implausible to put into practice.

[Pyroclase]

@AngelSG

Ok, now there’s something to work with. Terminator,somebody watching, the security cameras have “TX-5” written on top of them, “pro security” below that and “AUE” on the side of the ariculated support. There’s also a very blurry sticker on the side of the cameras with a CE marking certificating it. This may be nothing but being on New Mexico, I don’t know why they would need a european Union certification.
T-X is the terminatrix from Terminator III. So… here I don’t know how to keep going on
Is the AI watching through the cameras? There’s also HAL, that controlled the whole spaceship looking through cameras, Halos is possibly HAL operating system, maybe HAL also stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. Do we need to keep an eye on the security rooms with monitors?

Well, at least now we know for sure there’s something to be solved.

Edit: There’s also a weird symbol both on the bottom of the camera and the bottom of the articulated support

You may be reaching here.

[AngelSG]

@toxyn

… I started thinking maybe it has to do with HEV suit or the word lambda.

I have just realised. “It seems to suit the theme” Is the expression suit the theme a bit forced on this context? If it is then maybe the suit is the key.

@Pyro

You may be reaching here.

I thought about the cameras some time ago, due to all the watching and the AI, but I discarded it since it wasn’t related or hinted at in any way during the ARG. If as Me_muerO said, the hint is terminator III, then that’s a related thing, TX-5, T-X, it may be a weak relation, but well, being a really difficult puzzle it’s possible that weak relations are what we have to look for. But yeah, you are probably right.

@CPU

Would you terminate canaries?

CPU might have the best interpretation on the clue.

I checked the Tempus Omnia Revelant clue, yet again, to see if any of this related in any way, but with no luck.

[Toxyn]

I typed in Freeman at wiki found that name Freeman Dyson. Stormseeker mentions something about Cyberdyne and I remembered that a guy named Miles Dyson who basically made Skynet an AI.

I also wanted to mention that the HEV suit does have an on-board computer.

[redgun]

@Me_muerO

its seems strange to me the way stormseeker reply and the fact that the first letter of the second to the fourth line are “I”
Maybe something in terminator III?

hm, maybe it refers to ICSM instead of CSM

edit:
Niobium and Niobium alloys are used for super conducting.
Super conducting is used for quantum cryptography.
https://icsm2014.org/

Coincidence? I think not - HL3 confirmed.

edit2: I suggest that this is somehow related to Quantum Cryptography earlier (increasing levels of cryptography and whatnot), but unfortunately the idea was immediately shut down and disregarded.
https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showpost.php?p=570542&postcount=1719

edit3: Was the Holloman AFB thing ever solved?
if not -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram

[Dimmmkko]

@redgun

hm, maybe it refers to ICSM instead of CSM

edit:
Niobium and Niobium alloys are used for super conducting.
Super conducting is used for quantum cryptography.
https://icsm2014.org/

Coincidence? I think not - HL3 confirmed

That was my point as well.

[CPU]

Why would clicking on DALsys employees login, on the bmrf.us site take you to a DOS screen? After all, this is Black Mesa not your high school! Is it simply to give us another clue?

Why does the DOS screen generate an error message that is not a typical error response of any program? [CRITICAL FAULT]: CANNOT CONNECT TO LOGON SERVER ‘1.192.12.156:2828’

Why would the world’s leading corporation in multiple sciences, a multi billion dollar cormpany, who have the sharpest minds in the world working for them be using port number 2828 when Port 2828 is KNOWN to have vulnerabilities caused by trojans and remote code execution?

Was this our clue?

@stormseeker

CSM Cyberdyne Systems Model (Terminator)

I like that one best, it seems to suit the theme.

@AngelSG

If as Me_muerO said, the hint is terminator III, then that’s a related thing, TX-5, T-X, it may be a weak relation, but well, being a really difficult puzzle it’s possible that weak relations are what we have…

Is the hint that stormseeker is giving us simply TX?

TX is short for TRANSMIT

Is this where we should go next?
Do we simply need to transmit the code to that address?

b32b003a35badd66577c24c14fc919064346d131a7c54bb82ffe03e022615777247923dc21f62cd4182e91c3b267b545abcaedaf0261510d4eea1e87cd33c7c77131309cc4280eb4243d1154f044f9cf6296d9bff7397e4390987fe63203da0de40278b3...

Remember, stormseeker said:

@stormseeker

How do you know solving this has anything to do with encryption? :freeman:

*(corrected code 4/11)

[AngelSG]

@CPU

Why would the world’s leading corporation in multiple sciences, a multi billion dollar cormpany, who have the sharpest minds in the world working for them

Not anymore, the HECU killed them all, but Gordon, of course, but Gordon’s work was to push a cart, the only thing he knows to do with computers is hit them with a crowbar and trow the monitors around.

It’s a good idea, I would do it if I knew how.

Did you look into the canaries? It gave me the idea to search for ASCII control codes. It was weird that he put them here ␂ “tfexirklcrkzfejpflnfekyvGZQQR” ␗␃ since just with the double apostrophy at the start and the end it would be clear that the decryption process was going fine. Also, this was discovered at the same time than the HALOS.txt, though it was much much easier, so it may be the clue that we missed.

[MadDoctor]

I tried to send it with python like this:
import socket
import sys

TCP_IP = ‘1.192.12.156’
TCP_PORT = 2828

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))
s.send(“3a7e909a37aa863fb27805fc9731c09c8c79067e79930a4065 46b24c9a629b26c2ce2a4be48f589a375feb731fc4ab225c11848cf89e291fb27133970c063618474a892801edd68f54698c 5e5b506746f6765a6f7f1225dea4da1140feb60f650745241c 693695883dcb21e6fbfefbb85a2991948036a52b5d”)
s.close()
I have no idea how code tags work, so forgive me.
Nothing happened. I don’t even know if I did it right, but… it’s worth a shot.
EDIT: I got this error. The server isn’t even responding.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:/Users/Kevin/sender.py”, line 8, in
s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))
TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

[P_PORTAL_RTAL]

i ran a simpel “ping” and while the connection seems utterly crap it is reachable 50% of the time

[code]>ping 1.192.12.156

Pinging 1.192.12.156 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Reply from 1.192.12.156: bytes=32 time=514ms TTL=49
Request timed out.
Reply from 1.192.12.156: bytes=32 time=560ms TTL=49

Ping statistics for 1.192.12.156:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 514ms, Maximum = 560ms, Average = 537ms[/code]

so maybe you just run into a timeout

[P_PORTAL_RTAL]

sorry double post

[AngelSG]

@MadDoctor

s.send(“3a7e909a37aa863fb27805fc9731c09c8c79067e79930a4065 46b24c9a629b26c2ce2a4be48f589a375feb731fc4ab225c11848cf89e291fb27133970c063618474a892801edd68f54698c 5e5b506746f6765a6f7f1225dea4da1140feb60f650745241c 693695883dcb21e6fbfefbb85a2991948036a52b5d”)
s.close()

The data is wrong. That is just the last quarter of the 752 code. It starts “B32B00…” and it’s much longer.

[CPU]

@AngelSG

The data is wrong. That is just the last quarter of the 752 code. It starts “B32B00…” and it’s much longer.

Corrected:

b32b003a35badd66577c24c14fc919064346d131a7c54bb82ffe03e022615777247923dc21f62cd4182e91c3b267b545abcaedaf0261510d4eea1e87cd33c7c77131309cc4280eb4243d1154f044f9cf6296d9bff7397e4390987fe63203da0de40278b3...