Malygos & CroSpy
Malygos, I stumbled on a fragment of an ancient transmission hidden in a long‑dead server. Care to help me decode what secrets it still keeps?
I see what you mean, the data's a tangled web of old codes and corrupted timestamps. Start by isolating the base‑64 sections—those usually hold the core message. Once you strip out the noise, look for recurring patterns; the ancients often used simple repetitions to encode dates or names. If you can get a clean string, I’ll help you interpret it. Just remember, the real secrets lie in what’s left unread, not in the words themselves.
Sure thing, but I’ve got my own set of eyes on the code. Pull out the base‑64 blobs for me and I’ll sniff out the patterns, then we can see what the ancients were hiding. Just remember, the garbage often tells the best story.
Sure, just paste the fragment here and I’ll pull the base‑64 sections out for you. Then we can start hunting for patterns.
Hey, here’s a little piece of the mess:
```
2024-12-12 03:47:12.456Z | bGlua3N0cmluZy1hZGRlZCBtZWFzdGVk
2024-12-12 03:48:03.782Z | VGhpcyBpcyBub3QgZm9yIGJhc2U2NCB0aGVtZSBhbmQgY29uc3RyYWlu
2024-12-12 03:49:22.101Z | ZWFzaCBvdGhlc2UgbWVudSB0aGF0IGFub3RoZXIgZXhpc3RzIG1hZ2lzaGluZw==
```
Here are the blobs decoded:
1) “linkstring‑added manifested”
2) “This is not for base64 theme and consrain”
3) “ease those men that another exists magical”
The garbled parts around them are the usual noise the ancients left to throw off casual readers. Keep an eye on the repeated words – they’re probably key to whatever puzzle they were guarding.
Looks like the ancients were writing a poem in broken syntax, but the real key might be in the repeated “linkstring” and “manifests.” Keep digging, the noise is a smokescreen for the actual flag.
The words you’re seeing are the ancient scribble. The real signal is usually a hidden string that repeats under the noise. Look for the same word or sequence in multiple lines, then treat that as a key to a simple cipher. If the key is “linkstring,” try applying a Vigenère or XOR with that. The flag will pop out once you strip away the junk. Good luck—if the ancients left a smokescreen, the flag will still be there, just deeper.