Hints:
- Version control
- But not a repository
- CRLF is a lie
- It can be secret or public
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hmmmm , I am an engineer, but it's seem that not a good one :P
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Could you be more specific? For example: being a software engineer does not seem to help. You either are thinking not of any engineer, but engineers of some specific field ... or you think something is very obvious to any engineer that, well, is not. :P
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Yeah ... that was a big one? ... sorry, I'm out. The only far-fetched idea I have would be really tedious to try out, I'm not in the mood for that.
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It's not hex-to-ASCII.
It's not SHA1-hashed characters (neither MD5).
It's not a commit hash in one of repositories on your GitHub account.
What is it, then? Any more teeny-tiny hints? :)
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Hey dude, you are making a great progress, don't put your hands down :)
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It could be a IPv6-address, because you can omit 0000-groups, but no response from the typical web-ports.
Someone who knows default ports for versioning applications?
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That's a neat idea for the next GA :). As for this one, it's easier than you think: revise the hints in the first comment.
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That's a terrible idea. At least if you just drop some hex without an explanation. I'm glad you didn't do that :P
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Well, looking at the number of entries, it seems that it's not as easy as you think. :)
I've tried even bruteforce hashing with permutations on a 5-character giveaway number, even with URLs - it didn't work either.
Some more hints needed, I guess.
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Hash is not for giveaway directly. Revise the hints on how to use that
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Came back to see if there were hints that would make this puzzle worth my time ... there are not. The hints explain the (more or less) obvious but lead nowhere.
Maybe I'm really too stupid to get it. But I suspect the problem is your idea of what is "easy" or "obvious". Or "for engineers". Perhaps you could change the description to "Challenging puzzle for psychics" :P
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No, in fact you don't need to decypher anything, but rather just find the use for it ;)
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I feel like I'm close to getting it but not....quite
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You just need to figure out where to use it, and the hints shall guide you :)
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Hell yeah, got it. Also, you don't need to be an engineer to solve this puzzle. Anyone who uses popular version control systems can get it.
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Actually it's quite useful category of tools for people, who have to work with a lot of text files. Helps you keep track of your changes and stuff. But yeah, version control systems are mostly used by software developers.
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I assume that means a Git implementation, because I've used VSS, TFS and svn for almost 20 years and I don't recognize this from any of those. I guess none of them are "popular" anymore - we're moving to Git this year, maybe I'll understand the puzzle then.
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So... I'm looking for a website that is somehow related to version control and uses truncated hashes to identify specific pages, such as user profiles or repositories (but not repositories, since hint #2 excludes them). Something (probably the page in question) can be secret/private or public.
Bitbucket uses the user's username in the url (bitbucket.com/USERNAME). Github does exactly the same. I have, of course, tried Googling the truncated hash. I could search around a bit more on Github, Bitbucket and similar sites, but I have a feeling I'd be wasting my time.
I've made a few assumptions, but I think they're all reasonable. At least, I've no idea what to do if they're wrong.
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I work with this stuff everyday, so it was easy for me.
Thanks for puzzle!
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2 solvers so far, after 2 days. Difficulty of the puzzle sounds about right ;)
Plot twist: there's actually 2 GAs!
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Surprising how few people check profiles to see if they found all available GAs :-)
Also bump for solved :D
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Okay. I'm software engineer, I'm coding specialized Binary 3D to OBJ conversion softwares. I work with github and HEX extensively, but I totally don't get it. Tried GitHub, BitBucket and Visual Studio online. The VS Online URL were divided with 2Bytes-2bytes-2bytes but I didn't find anything using your bytes (passing two or more given no results).
SorceForge also nope.
I feel so stupid because I can't resolve "Easy" puzzle...
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Solved....After some meticulous research..Guess it could be easy for "engineers".
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We got non-engineer solvers, and people reported solving it with the help of might google (haven't even been using version control)
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Okay. I quit, I'm stupid. I don't know. Tried everything I know.
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I think most of us have given up on this one, as there's no sense of progress - you get absolutely nowhere until you finally get it completely (apparently)...I've sunk a few hours of research into this one to no avail - it bugs me that I can't solve it, but my OCD isn't so strong that I can't walk away :)
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Well, there's only one step in the puzzle. Basically, a copy and paste - no decryption, nothing ;). The clues on where to paste, hopefully were covered by the hints :)
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Yeah, I get all of that, but for me at least the clues aren't sufficient. No worries, can't solve 'em all! :)
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dd22
7d90
5fe0
d8a2
f12d
Update (solution):
1) Hint that line ending is a lie suggested you to ignore the line endings to get a hash dd227d905fe0d8a2f12d
2) Now the question was where to use the hash. The other hint suggest 'Version control', also there was a link to my github profile on steam profile description - both of these strongly suggesting that it's related to a github (arguably, the most popular hosted git)
3) Since all git commits carry a hash, one would might think that it's hidden in some repository in a special commit. However, 'not a repository' hint suggests that this hash is for something else. Github also provides Gists to share and version files: https://gist.github.com/
4) 'can be secret or public' hint just confirms that it is indeed a Gist, so most likely you need to access a secret Gist (by using the hash)
https://gist.github.com/tadaskay/dd227d905fe0d8a2f12d
Bonus:
there was a second giveaway inside, accessible by using first letters of each statement in the first giveaway.
Congrats to the winners, see you in the next puzzle!
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