Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Breaking this thing was too much for me.  Well done on the contest Mr. Rocky!  URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=295489#p295489 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Version 2 is now up on www.rockywaters.co.uk URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=295484#p295484 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released I am concluding that this encryption machine is safe to use, but only if you choose a strong password.  I am therefore releasing a version 2, with unlimited length of password, 24 encryption wheels instead of 12 and an optional

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Being the 31st of Jan the competition is now closed. And here's the answer, appropriately this being post number 42.If you copy the scrambled text to the clipboardA~V'(H(EtV.aSEdWa`HxRDAP>k/N.2.WLRx run the password scrambler, cho

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Guys, the unscrambled sentence is understandable English as I think, not these tons of unknown letters! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=293101#p293101

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Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released o6A<h_f:9t6!a*V#V9-'c)2pZeuA?`=ME URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=293072#p293072 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released when i ran the program for my output guess it came up with JK;yDzBvP*hO>p3QJ:mU0Jn^<,}( +}Ae>F URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291806#p291806 ___ A

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released I have written version 2.  In passwordScramblerV2 there are now 24 wheels instead of 12, the master password has no limit in length, and there is an optional second password that will shuffle the 24 wheels, again no password length

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released On a more sober note.  No one has claimed the 100$ reward, but I have received several insights.  Firstly, python being a scripting language is apparently easy to decompyle.There are some methods out there to help hide source code

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Hey all.Rockywaters is in quite a state right now and ask me to post hhis updated challenge.You to claim the 100 dollar prise you must not collect the 12 golden animal crackers. The 12 crackers can be divined by solving his first

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released and still the shadow of the walrus stands tall over the secondary cheese URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291733#p291733 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released I found the lost when last we saw the golden dragon but you need my last name when stars are counting the why nots. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291732#p291732

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Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released much as I agree with you rocky I think zombies with 4 wheels is a bad idea. if I can unscramble a chicken though I will pluck it with abandon. hopefully no feathers will fall on Tuesday. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released As the new year kicks over here in the U.K. perhaps the competitoijn I  is officaially open but diddfufeclut for me tl say.  So much to sy so little zombies to express my thoughts for me and too many variables.  Did that versiojn 2

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Ctoth, well done on the source code.  I had been working on this myself yesterday but I didn't have any tools to extract the source.  I'm surprised it came out so clean!I have been working at this in a more traditional (low tech) way

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Ctoth, well done on the source code.  I had been working on this myself yesterday but I didn't have any tools to extract the source.  I'm surprised it came out so clean!I have been working at this in a more traditional (low tech) way

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Hello Rocky.I want to be your tester for your programs.I like your programs and games. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291519#p291519 ___ Audiogames-reflector

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Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Hello,@Rocky, yeah, if competition is meaned by this way, you are right, there should be no hints. Sorry for my previous message, I understood It as a security test like in AES competition, where source code of algorithms was needed

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Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released To everyone asking for hints and such, might it not be possible that there isn't supposed to be a winner?Instead of thinking about it as a quest from a game or a contest that is supposed to have a clear winner, think about it more

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Well, as far as I am concerned, this is nice and crypted. There is something like 12^94 possibilities for the state of the seed, though I would love if somebody with a better handle on crypto had done the deed. The answer

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released smoothgunner The clipboard input should handle one return or new line, whereas the file input should handle multiple carriage returns or newlines.  The codes \n and \r are for newlines and carriage returns respectively.  Sadly where

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Smiles, as I was writing the above ctoth goes and uncompiles the source code.  Perhaps version 2 might be released with a choice of wheels that the user can keep separate from the program and insert at will.  I'm starting to get

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Rastislav.  I do not intend releasing the source code for the very reason that some folks might well be using this machine to encrypt their data.  However you have a point about developers, a modified version may well be of good

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released You would not be giving this thief some hints to your master password would you?  However it is only fair that I share 2 assumptions that Aprone has suggested are reasonable:Firstly: The output phrase contains at least some

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released [[wow]] 1 day and lots of interest and a lot of very astute observations.  I wanted to simulate the situation where you had entrusted important data to this encryption and then your computer was stolen.  Normally a hacker would

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Hi folks,I took a crack at this earlier.Here is a copy of the source we  were able to reverse, along with my notes on the process. This seems to be a nice piece of crypto, but I am not a crypto expert unfortunately, so I can't say

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released quote from the instructions: This password scrambler uses 12 wheels, instead of 3.  It uses the printable ASCII set of 95 characters, instead of 26.  More than one wheel rotates after each letter is encrypted.  There are just under

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released The maximum password length is 12.To brute force, in the worst case the possibilities are 94^12. If we consider just letters, it is 52^12, which is still an inconceivable number.The password and the wheel is most likely related-I

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released the biggest problem in decyphering this is that the master password can be anything from a single letter to a whole phrase so the possibilities that you can try are endless. Even if by pure luck someone could find a pattern the fact

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Victorious, here is text copied from the program's help file.  You are wondering which mainstream-standardized methods it uses, but it does not use any.  Rocky wrote the encryption himself rather than pasting together what is already

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Unless you post a technical overview of the cryptographic operations used, I'd take this with a large dose of salt. For example, how is the password database encrypted? Is PBKDF2 used? Is authenticated encryption used? What libraries

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released mastodont, the "advanced knowledge of how the encryption system works" is precisely what people should be able to figure out by using the encoder and looking for patterns.It may not be possible, but even if it ende

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released given the encryption method I would say that it is impossible to decode the phrase without any hints regarding the master password or without having advanced knowledge of how the encryption system works. Anyways, if the challenge

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Try removing the blank line from the code. I was getting that error as well and removing the blank line fixed it.Pretty neat little program. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291458#p291458

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released before I even waste my time trying to figure out the master code to rocky's incription, do I have to be a pro at coding and programming? please tell me now because I don't know the first thing about coding, and I rather stop recking

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released So are we supposed to post our answers here? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291433#p291433 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Rastislav, I believe this can be solved.  It would be helpful to already know how the program is working internally, but that itself can be discovered with some work.  I believe this contest would be too easy if Rocky gave us

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released is anyone getting this error when doing the inscription "\r" can not be found, please check output. now when I take out the R from the scrambled password then it does not give me that message, it goes as normal. so is t

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Hi,Rocky Waters, i wanted to say It in release of BeadBrains, but here is also place, you are making perfectly your work, only little better control style of BeadBrains will be appreciated, but that is not important, important

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released One prize only.  Claimed by the first person to post here after the server clicks over into January.  And Dragos, @M#Msdq}7V{A8]+zvr0QXfZGJuqA*'(jNKB is not correct. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291398#p291398

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released @M#Msdq}7V{A8]+zvr0QXfZGJuqA*'(jNKBI have this.Is corect? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291385#p291385 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released Same here! Just a question: Is the one who will be winning the prize just the first to guess the sentence or a randomly chosen one in case more than a person guesses it? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291375

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released well I'm in, I've already tried to guess the master password for the phrase but no luck. any hints would be welcome. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=291364#p291364

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released And the 100$ prize? Well all you have to do is decipher the following short phrase:A~V'(H(EtV.aSEdWa`HxRDAP>k/N.2.WLRxThe phrase was scrambled using my Password scrambler available at www.rockywaters.co.ukThe competition sta

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released

Re: 100$ prize as Rocky's password scrambler is released This Password Scrambler is a flexible, easy to use, but powerful, encryption machine. These days, most folks have many passwords and other confidential information. Remembering them all becomes a hassle and keeping them secure