Three codes were hidden in the THE UNWITTING post on the Investigate Ingress blog.
[1] vrcptqtdfmdeclepesehehsh
[2] vm66aomg3oi53cm
[3] nnmvlmlldvdwnmlvmnxmwvlmnwlvbdvwlvwllwnwmylwlm
Code #1
Observations
Go through your usual cipher routine, a simple one
Spoiler
Rot 16 gives
kgreifisubstratethtwtwhw
Split into the passcode format
kgr ei fi substrate th tw tw hw
kgr85substrate322hw
Code #2
Observations
15 characters with the right amount of numbers for a valid passcode
Spoiler
Make a 3×5 grid
v |
m |
6 |
6 |
a |
o |
m |
g |
3 |
o |
i |
5 |
3 |
c |
m |
Reverse rows 2 & 4
v |
m |
6 |
o |
a |
6 |
m |
g |
3 |
5 |
i |
o |
3 |
c |
m |
Read going down from the upper left V
vom53magic663om
Code #3
Observations
Those letters fall in a very specific range
Spoiler
Convert letters to numbers
13 13 12 21 11 12 11 11 3 21 3 22 13 12 11 21 12 13 23 12 22 21 11 12 13 22 11 21 1 3 21 22 11 21 22 11 11 22 13 22 12 24 11 22 11 12
No zeros and all in the lower digits. The sum of all digits is 144 which can be divided by 8, RLE is the way to go
01110111 01100101 01101010 00110111 00110111 01101001 01101110 01110110 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110010 01101001 00110101 00110111 00110110 01111010 01101011
Convert binary to Ascii
wej77inveniri576zk
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