The Steemit Crypto Challenge #13 - Winner Announcement

Prepare - Uncover - Outwit - Find - WIN!



The 13th Steemit Crypto Challenge is over and we are happy to announce the winner:
Congratulations @waldfee!

You followed your intuition and stayed on the right track. Solving the puzzle you saved your reward. 100 Steem goes to you.


Solution


Here is a breakthrough, showing step by step what you had to do in order to solve the crypto-puzzle.
The two given hints were:
base64
http://www.xup.in/dl,60841354/breakit.rar/

and
Caesar Encryption

User @anduweb found out that the password to decrypt the .rar file was given in the header image. The letters LOXYZYZKVOYJJUTK is Caeser-shifted and decrypted is the following: firststepisdone. This however is not the password to unlock the rar file. Notice that I had a spelling mistake in the headline. P and Y are switched and have a number each, 1 and 2. The encrypted word has also the numbers 1 and 2, which lead to the conclusion so switch the letters here as well. Bingo now it works!


@waldfee finally was able to solve the puzzle and found out that inside the .rar file was a picture. This picture contained the pastebin logo and a code. The code was part of the URL to the pastebin doc. Inside this pastebin doc was a base64 encoded passphrase U3RlZW1mZXN0MnJvY2tzIQ==. She successfully decrypted the word and got the right solution! steemfest2rocks!


Great work and congratulations to the winner and all who participated. @andu you get 10 Steem for the first hint! Don't miss the next Steemit Crypto Challenge and be prepared.
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Thanks for the great challenge.
As I wrote in a commet, i found these challenge randomly.
My main interest is photography and i'm here to share some of my picture (most of them are macro shots).
But cryptography is my second passion and i'm surprised to found these excelent challenge.

Great you found this challenge and looking forward to see you maybe solve the next ones! Also happy that you enjoy photography! This week I will start to share more of my photographs with you

congratulations! :) @waldfee

you're welcome :) sent you a follow

Congrats @waldfee
Great job @timsaid for hosting this.

I tried. But it was too tough for me lol

Most excellent contests! Thanks for sharing the results and the key to its answer, exciting development in itself really. I love it!

Namaste :)

Congratulations @waldfee!

Wonderful work my friend. Great challenge
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this is too cool. Sorry I missed it. Congats!

Waw, this amazing challenge!!!

i would not miss it... that i promise