Three codes were hidden in the HTML source of THE GATES OF HELL post on the Investigate Ingress blog.
[1] xkk13hsvvk745bx
[2] bhf82bc00o551wr
[3] a4p76ab8y7wrctor
Code #1
Observations
A bad keyword substitution…
Atbash letters and numbers
cpp97sheep365yc
And another really bad keyword sub ! The enemy of the sheep is the Wolf(e)
cpp97wolfe365yc
Code #2
Observations
This code was still live at the moment of this post.
Hint: Treat numbers in groups, not has separate digits
Code #3
Observations
16 characters that will make your head spin
A regex search using ^[a4p76ab8y7wrctor]{6}$
reveals that crypto is the only possible keyword
Make a 4×4 spiral
a |
4 |
p |
7 |
r |
c |
t |
6 |
w |
r |
o |
a |
7 |
y |
8 |
b |
Read going down from the upper left A
arw74crypto876ab
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