Interesting!! The plot thickens, or perhaps started out thick.

500 HIVE are in the pot. I wish you good luck! :D

If it's still up and running at the end of the day I'll take a boo. For now -- it's time to go to work. :(

Cool challenge! Resharing and whatnot

Anything related to 9/11?

This is going to be a tough one to crack

But not impossible. Hope the 500 HIVE are motivation enough

I've missed those challenges! It's nice to see you back here @timsaid!

And I’ll try to make them better then ever! Glad to be back :)

2nd hint is a pastebin link, still unsure where the password is found in the first hint image.

"amsterdam", "netherlands"

A great start!

Where are you trying to put in a password?
it could be cbiikynpp2sigmr

got it

mmm, didnt think to use the dropbox link. encipher.it

Yeeted you a lil bit, for the assist. :)

HIVE > STEEM

[IMAGE: https://images.hive.blog/DQmdHyFpFnMuC822XgHobL3T2mTSiS7NBBek5u6ZZH9EWqA/output.jpg]

That is correct. Hats off, I didn’t expect anyone to solve it that quickly. To be honest, you made me quite a bit speechless. I put quite some effort into this challenge :P Have to make the next one harder

Was that the real answer? I progressed quite a bit but stuck on one of the passwords.

Yes that is the correct and final answer. I’ll make a with the solution tomorrow. Maybe lefevre wants to do create a post too describing how he solved it?

Hint Nr.1
https://hive.blog/hive-174578/@timsaid/timtravels-a-different-kind-of-tree-hint-nr-1 & s/ /D

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cbiikynpp2sigmr/DSC_8811

Pictures of Tree in Amsterdam Netherlands

uploaded by Lumpia

Morse from Image: Red herring
RAID4 NO PARITY

Hint Nr.2
https://pastebin.com/197gY7bE
contents of PB
EnCt2f5f470abbd1f510caa1eaecfd1efeb7b9bae72def5f470abbd1f510caa1eaecf5Tg4UK3=1wC i5L3tol7qS/bt1shr3CS/RQNZNt2xlvZ+O6Z2PFk8+Y/0IwEmS

password = cbiikynpp2sigmr

https://easyupload.io/6d5zo2

Rar file that you need to read each file one byte at a time to re-create jpg

Python Script:

file2 = open("F:/Crypto/Hive/file1", "rb")
file3 = open("F:/Crypto/Hive/file2", "rb")
text_file = open("F:/Crypto/Hive/Output.jpg", "wb")

with open("F:/Crypto/Hive/file0", "rb") as file1:
while True:
byte1 = file1.read(1)
byte2 = file2.read(1)
byte3 = file3.read(1)
text_file.write(byte1)
text_file.write(byte2)
text_file.write(byte3)
if not byte1:
break;

text_file.close()
print("Done")

Wow! How did the morse code help? It was the first thing I spotted. Where did you use RAID4NOPARITY?

RAID4 is needed to put the picture together from the 3 files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAID_4.svg

Usually you include a parity disk, that’s why you actually use RAID system. In case a disk fails you can reconstruct it with the parity disk. However for this challenge I wanted to keep it a less complex and not include the parity disk

I know what RAID4 is but I couldn't make the connection, very smart way to hint the picture creation!

I would have never thought of that

Fun puzzle, looking forward to the next one. Happy to see these popping off :)

Congrats! what was the password for hivechallenge.rar?

the same thing you used to get to that link. The dropbox ID

I got stuck on the hivechallenge.rar How were you supposed to use that?

See the comment from lefevre above

Wow what a brilliant idea and a beautiful outcome 😊 I will be looking forward for the next one 🙏

When the crypto world makes you wish you were a nerd...

Can I get a prize for not even getting close to solving it? :D