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Cicada 3301 outguess crack#
Some even say that there were some participants who were able to crack the Cicada puzzle and are successfully hired by the agency, but these might just be rumors. Since then not much progress has been made on the “Cicada 3301” puzzle, early speculations we’re that this was a NSA agent recruitment program but these were just speculations, nothing conclusive could be made out of it. This site contained instructions to obtain an email, the email contained another number which when added to the TOR address led to the following message, A TOR link was extracted, which led us to another image. The poem in the “message 2” was found to be “ Agrippa” (A book of the death) by Sir William Gibson. The rest are left undiscovered till date. When decoded using Outguess, these images were found to contain secret messages and out of the four sites only two messages were revealed. This also led to confirm the authenticity of the puzzle, since the clues found scattered all over the world which implied that this was not a one man job and a powerful agency was behind it.įound at Warsaw, PolandThe QR code was a link to a unique URL which contained the same image of Cicada and the a text, “3301”. Though there were coordinates of various sites which was found in the text, only the four aforementioned sites were confirmed to reveal a poster with a cicada and a QR Code. Although there were a lot of speculations about what these number signify, which turned out to be coordinates of specific locations. The original image posted in the /b/ board was of 509×503 pixels, both of which are primes and according to the recording 3301 is one of them, mutliplying three of them we get 845145127.Ĩ the website hosted an image of a cicada, which when decoded with Outguess revealed the following message,Ĭheck back at 17:00 on Monday, 9 January 2012 UTC.Īt the designated time, the site changed to s string of numbers. When the number was called the following pre recorded audio was played, If you’re wondering what a PGP signed message is, PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy which is basically a completely secure method of ensuring that the message encrypted is from an authentic sender. The two images above we’re also meant to be decoded in Outguess, and the message hidden in both were
The image “Problems?” is a sterogram of a chalice formed by the images of King Arthur.
Cicada 3301 outguess code#
When the book code was decoded it revealed a phone number, These codes are key to the unreadable texts were to be deciphered only to reveal a story about King Arthur, this is the book with which the book code is supposed to be used. The subreddit image heading and the title of the page are different representation of same sequence of numbers, Pretty spooky, right? Wait there’s more to come.
Rest of the subreddit was filled with these unreadable posts. One of the images in the subreddit, titled “Problems?” Image of an what seems to be a “Welcome mat”!?, also found in the subreddit. See, that subreddit mentioned in the document? If you’re wondering what’s in the subreddit, let me show you.
Cicada 3301 outguess full#
The full and original text can be found here Opening the image in Outguess led to the following message, which is a book code and a link to a subreddit. This seems to be a decoy at first, but those words “OUT” and “GUESS” when put together “OUTGUESS”, which is a Stenography software. Using a CAESAR Cypher, the text is revealed to be a second image. When opened in Wordpad this image, the final lines of the text read, So, what exactly would you have done? Some guys attempted to dechiper it and found this little adventure of theirs to be a waste of time, to be honest to this day only a handful of people know where the rabbit hole leads to. This image showed up in 5th January 2012 on the /b/ board in 4chan and our fellow netizens were equally shocked and thrilled. You would probably think it’s a hoax, right? I mean come on it’s 4chan, but let’s not forget that 4chan boards are well known for notoriety and also because Anonymous was created in one of the boards. What if you wake up one day to find a weird and mysterious image floating on your 4chan feed? To be specific this image,