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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
Yemmster
on 04/07/2014, 07:00:08 UTC
One thing that seti does is looking for repeating non natrual patterns no?

Near the end of Wow.JPG this pattern can be found. As a matter of fact, the only thing after this is "FF D9", which someone mentioned is the "eof-signal" for jpg-files.

I don't know enough about photoshop or other image manipulating programs to say that this is manually added.
It just looks way to out of place to me.

Code:
Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F

001F9600  8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 7C B1 57 62 AE C5  Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±W|±Wb®Å
001F9620  5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A  ]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š
001F9640  BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15  ».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».
001F9660  76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A  v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*
001F9680  EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55  ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìU
001F96A0  D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB  Ø«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«
001F96C0  B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57  ±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±W
001F96E0  62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE  b®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®
001F9700  C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AD 62 AD E2 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57  Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb.b.â®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±W
001F9720  62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE  b®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®
001F9740  C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D  Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]
001F9760  8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AD 1A F6 C5 5B  Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb..öÅ[
001F9780  C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D  Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]
001F97A0  8A                                                                                               Š

The following, repeated 28 times:
Code:
[s]8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D[/s]

Not really repeating, there are some alternations in the HEX but not by much:
Code:
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 7C B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AD 62 AD E2 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AD 1A F6 C5 5B C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D
8A BF