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Hello,

Here is a lovely little puzzle core, euphemism and I solved at DEFCON to go to an awesome party.
We were given this card to start, nothing more.
We thought some of your might like to take a stab at it. The puzzle is actually quite fun.
Enjoy :)

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22042[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]22043[/ATTACH]

Fuck the pah-lees.

Please periodically post your progress, ie what stage you are on. Please refrain from posting answers here so you don't ruin it for others who want to try. If you'd like verify what you think is an answer, msg core or I on IRC.

First one in case no one recognizes, the bottom of it spells

Mirror

in morse code.


The second image decodes into:

Good job! https://twitter.com/rrdmhhakca17

Re-arranging the end of the link spells darrm hack or something card. The link's ending is also 10 characters long or 12 including numbers. Mirroring it at the center doesn't help.

So looking at the HTML of the twitter link only things I see are:

Text: Good try, try again.
ID: 1634773476
Name: Try again
BackgroundColour: C0DEED
SidebarColour: DDEEF6
ScreenName: rrdmhhakca17

Since it's called the Caesar challenge, I assumed that it used the caesar cipher but it doesn't. If you try the decipher algorithm on twitter link, it'll print giberish like the following for all 26 possibilities:

rrdmhhakca
qqclgg`jb`
ppbkff_ia_
ooajee^h`^
nn`idd]g_]
mm_hcc\f^\
ll^gbb[e][
kk]faaZd\Z
jj\e``Yc[Y
ii[d__XbZX
hhZc^^WaYW
ggYb]]V`XV
ffXa\\U_WU
eeW`[[T^VT
ddV_ZZS]US
ccU^YYR\TR
bbT]XXQ[SQ
aaS\WWPZRP
``R[VVOYQO
__QZUUNXPN
^^PYTTMWOM
]]OXSSLVNL
\\NWRRKUMK
[[MVQQJTLJ
ZZLUPPISKI
YYKTOOHRJH

I've already tried rotating and flipping and decoding the images in every possible direction and angle. All print the same twitter link when decoded. Only thing I can think of is to split the image into two parts and mirror it at the center but doesn't make sense.

Combining Mirror + code = MirrorCode or CodeMirror and that's just some javascript website.

If you have to have a twitter to continue, then forget it. I refuse to sign up to solve this if need be.

Got it.

@Brandon you do not need a Twitter account to solve this. The thought involving a Caesar cipher is a good one, perhaps you should venture further down that path?