jasen Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 To get more evidence, a police is trying to hack a crimanal's computer. He find a suspicious transaction file, but it is protected by a password. Than he find a text file "psw.txt" which he thinks contain the needed password. He says "What a fool to save the password here" When he open the text file it is blank. Help the police to reveal the hidden password. psw.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Logophobic Posted August 21, 2016 Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 Description: Reveal hidden contents Not dots and dashes. Zeros and ones. Binary representation of ascii values.[\spoiler] Solution: Reveal hidden contents HelloBOSS[\spoiler] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TimeSpaceLightForce Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 Reveal hidden contents It is like a code..or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 Before reading the file I immediately thought of one method. Reveal hidden contents Text is invisible when written in the background color. Specify the type color to be white, and the page appears to be blank. It's revealed by selecting All (CNTL-a). In this case, the characters appear as spaces, each of the lines having its own length. One possibility is the lengths of the lines are integers that index the alphabet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 jasen Posted August 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 On 8/20/2016 at 4:52 PM, TimeSpaceLightForce said: Reveal hidden contents It is like a code..or something Expand Right start. Now decode the message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 araver Posted August 21, 2016 Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 Soo Reveal hidden contents I got the same blank/tab from the file. .-..-... .--..-.- .--.--.. .--.--.. .--.---- .-....-. .-..---- .-.-..-- .-.-..-- Not sure how to interpret them as Morse Code or Wabun Code. One way of splitting yields AUS ADK AKD AKD AKO ASR AUO ARW ARW And I see no way to get a single character for each line out of that output. There aren't Morse equivalents for Unicode AFAIK. And any line could be split differently for e.g. .-..-... can be split as AUS: .-/..-/... or RRI: .-./.-./.. or RAS: .-./.-/... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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To get more evidence, a police is trying to hack a crimanal's computer.
He find a suspicious transaction file, but it is protected by a password.
Than he find a text file "psw.txt" which he thinks contain the needed password.
He says "What a fool to save the password here"
When he open the text file it is blank.
Help the police to reveal the hidden password.
psw.txt
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