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Strange Sequential String (Posted on 2008-12-15) Difficulty: 1 of 5
While he is surfing the internet, Jonah stumbles upon a "hackers" website that is part of a ring of thirteen; each site linking to the next one, until returning to the first.

Curiously one of them requires a password and as he cycles through the front pages of the other twelve, Jonah notices some strange figures in the bottom right corner. It is not obvious, because each time the web page designer has chosen a color only slightly different to the background.

Jonah observes that the password protected site is the last in the ring, so he writes down the codes from each of the other sites sequentially to form a string as follows:

706173733D4861636B65725A

After a bit of effort, Jonah subsequently unlocks the password.

Can you do the same?

  Submitted by K Sengupta    
Rating: 3.0000 (3 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
Dividing the string into twelve pairs of two digit numbers we have:

70 61 73 73 3D 48 61 63 6B 65 72 5A

Now, the name of the user is Jonah, which brings to mind the famous fictional character Jonah Hex. Accordingly, the two digit numbers are expressed in the hexadecimal base (base 16) of notation. We now observe that, the ASCII characters represented by each of these values spell out: "pass=HackerZ", so that the required password is “HackerZ”.

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  Subject Author Date
re: Almost Thererod hines2008-12-17 14:19:16
Almost ThereVernon Lewis2008-12-16 02:15:31
SolutionSolutionDej Mar2008-12-15 21:38:46
SolutionSolutionSing4TheDay2008-12-15 12:37:41
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