The first one doesn't exist, I can handle that.. I'll have my friend who has the pc vers give it to me. However, Trying to get into this second one (in the extras package) quite frusrating. I found (url="http://"http://www.introversion.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic;=1186")this(/url) but is is of no help, where is this key file thing? And what is one time pad encrypting? And then there's this blah in the html file for book 2-

1234564651234561548945231324564 - 2.6Khz - 4564564123487548451656561616448
6782314897648763287623487623467 - 5.2Khz - 4748923785897298754238973287483
1234564651234561548945231324564 - 10.4Khz - 4564564123487548451656561616448
9939482813848903282398488499939 - 20.8Khz - 8299298474567729104857089372737

Little help?

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Originally posted by joethebarber:
**The first one doesn't exist, I can handle that.. I'll have my friend who has the pc vers give it to me. However, Trying to get into this second one (in the extras package) quite frusrating. I found this but is is of no help, where is this key file thing? And what is one time pad encrypting? And then there's this blah in the html file for book 2-

1234564651234561548945231324564 - 2.6Khz - 4564564123487548451656561616448
6782314897648763287623487623467 - 5.2Khz - 4748923785897298754238973287483
1234564651234561548945231324564 - 10.4Khz - 4564564123487548451656561616448
9939482813848903282398488499939 - 20.8Khz - 8299298474567729104857089372737

Little help?

**

I'm working on this too. Slowly. That text you quote appears to work with a program called "s/key+" but what I get from looks like gibberish too. Oh well, I'm still working on it. Very slowly.

I notice that the first line and the third line are the same except for the Khz.

Redhat has something to do with it. But whatever it is, is obscure. <g>.

(It wouldn't be any fun if it were too easy)

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Yup.. I'm thinking those might be ip numbers in some format, then the frequencies for some radio receivers. Hmm...

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"He has a company that makes computers. Or a computer that makes companies. Anyway, you wouldn't understand."-Homer

ok, then there's this: (url="http://"http://www.vidwest.com/otp/")http://www.vidwest.com/otp/(/url)
It seems to be what would be used to decrypt it, but then we are still in need of a key file...

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No, wait, those frequencies can't be in game type stuff, as in game the frequencies are in Ghz.

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Originally posted by joethebarber:
**No, wait, those frequencies can't be in game type stuff, as in game the frequencies are in Ghz.

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I'm pretty sure that the frequencies are key.

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..Meaning?

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"He has a company that makes computers. Or a computer that makes companies. Anyway, you wouldn't understand."-Homer

there it is.. check out the header on world.dat in the data folder... its turns into a valid mp3, too.

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Originally posted by joethebarber:
**..Meaning?

**

Ahhhhhhhh. The music of the world. Gotcha.

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=Not= going to be adding this one to my itunes list <g>

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So, are you saying that the gamebible is an mp3?

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So, are you saying that the gamebible is an mp3?

No, world.dat is. Use RedshirtX to decrypt it and change the extension to .mp3. Open it with Quicktime Player. Not exactly pretty, but it's a valid mp3...

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In the beginning, all was NULL, or perhaps (void*).
-- (url="http://"http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/")Vega Strike(/url) introduction
One, Two, Three, (url="http://"http://source.bungie.org/")Pfh(/url)(url="http://"http://resurrection.bungie.org/")or(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.idevgames.com/")iDevGames(/url)... do (url="http://"http://www.idevgames.com/content/contest.php?id=6")uDevGames(/url)?

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Originally posted by sinclair44:
**No, world.dat is. Use RedshirtX to decrypt it and change the extension to .mp3. Open it with Quicktime Player. Not exactly pretty, but it's a valid mp3...

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I've listened to it now. I have a feeling I'm still missing something about it. It seems like it ought to have some significance.

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Originally posted by Ricia:
I've listened to it now. I have a feeling I'm still missing something about it. It seems like it ought to have some significance.

Did you look at the page at Introversion that joethebarber linked to? Is there a way this file could be split into 53 parts?

As for Book 3, I accidentally found its location when browsing the Introversion boards. Dunno what the process to figure it out the correct way is, though.

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In the beginning, all was NULL, or perhaps (void*).
-- (url="http://"http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/")Vega Strike(/url) introduction
One, Two, Three, (url="http://"http://source.bungie.org/")Pfh(/url)(url="http://"http://resurrection.bungie.org/")or(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.idevgames.com/")iDevGames(/url)... do (url="http://"http://www.idevgames.com/content/contest.php?id=6")uDevGames(/url)?

the world.dat file is supposed to be a dycryption key, in One Time Pad format, for all of the files in book2. However, as linked above, it is necessary to split into different key files for decryption. Also, If you listen to it, a 15 minute file, there are spots where it goes dead silent, specifically, at 5 and 10 minutes, or about at hex offsets 493d90 and 927c80, as well as at the end, dbbb90. So, I think it might be splitting into 3 files, with each including the block of zeroes at the end; I've tried it with deleting the zeroes already, and that doesn't work. So, I'll report on how this goes, just had to write all my ideas down somewhere before I started..

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Originally posted by sinclair44:
**Did you look at the page at Introversion that joethebarber linked to? Is there a way this file could be split into 53 parts?

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Yes but that's a windows program, and I haven't found a mac equivalent.

Using S/Key+ I can divide that page into something close to 53 pieces, depending on how I do it. All the jpgs in that folder are encrypted too, both with OTP and Redshirt.

In the game data folder, there's an interesting comment in music.dat.

Also an interesting clue in the Protovision game server.

I got me lots of clues, but I haven't figured out what to do with them <g>.

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Originally posted by joethebarber:
**the world.dat file is supposed to be a dycryption key, in One Time Pad format, for all of the files in book2. However, as linked above, it is necessary to split into different key files for decryption. Also, If you listen to it, a 15 minute file, there are spots where it goes dead silent, specifically, at 5 and 10 minutes, or about at hex offsets 493d90 and 927c80, as well as at the end, dbbb90. So, I think it might be splitting into 3 files, with each including the block of zeroes at the end; I've tried it with deleting the zeroes already, and that doesn't work. So, I'll report on how this goes, just had to write all my ideas down somewhere before I started..

**

Oh now this is interesting. I did listen to it, but not that closely. (I had it on while I was doing something else, hoping that there would be words in it).

Speaking of words .. one of the tunes in the game has some, but I haven't made them out yet.

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Originally posted by Ricia:
**Yes but that's a windows program, and I haven't found a mac equivalent.

Using S/Key+ I can divide that page into something close to 53 pieces, depending on how I do it. All the jpgs in that folder are encrypted too, both with OTP and Redshirt.

In the game data folder, there's an interesting comment in music.dat.

Also an interesting clue in the Protovision game server.

I got me lots of clues, but I haven't figured out what to do with them <g>.

**

what's a windows program? otp? go (url="http://"http://www.vidwest.com/otp/")here(/url), compile the c thing, and its good to go. in the proto game server, eh? gotta check that out.. And by the way, the files with the zeroes at the end still yielded blank decoded files, i think that has to do with a necessary file size for pads/files, anyone else have better luck? I know i must be missing something obvious here.. care to share your other clues?

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Originally posted by joethebarber:

**what's a windows program? otp? go here, compile the c thing, and its good to go. in the proto game server, eh? gotta check that out.. And by the way, the files with the zeroes at the end still yielded blank decoded files, i think that has to do with a necessary file size for pads/files, anyone else have better luck? I know i must be missing something obvious here.. care to share your other clues?

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I saw the c-source, but I don't got no stinkin' compiler, and I haven't been able to find one that I can run. The only one I found beeped continuously about not finding what it expected and I had to opt-cmd-esc out of it.

if you've got 10.2 and a developer tools disk, install it then run cc from terminal. Otherwise, I could just send you the compiled script, email me. And all the protovision server says in the way of hints is
"Getting warmmmmmm
What was the IP of Introversion software again?"
Now I know that too.. but it has no helpin, either. Care to elaborate on that one clues?

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"He has a company that makes computers. Or a computer that makes companies. Anyway, you wouldn't understand."-Homer