newfags is hugs.
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I've got 602!
some learn some dont
we don't give up on you, so you don't give up on you.
I've been lookeing/contemplating this all day. Had some pointers point me in a direction, have no idea if I'm walking the right path. Remember, hive mind, walk all paths, until we strike like lightning.
The assumptions that I'm working from:
Lin Wood (the water above the waterfall we are watching) gave us a verifiable PORTION of the password.
Kappy published the insurance file with the intent of it being used, presumably to prevent his murder which didn't work out right for whatever reason.
Kappy (and whomever he worked with) wanted the insurance discoverable (with difficulty level 11)
Kappy was aware of Q, promoted Q, was one of us (Bless him.)
The information within the drop is classified preventing Q and related from giving it to us.
I am assuming that the passphrase is verifiable on the blockchain.
THOSE ARE ALL ASSUMPTIONS, I KNOW AS MUCH AS YOU (unless you're Q/+).
My HOPE is that the passphrase is discoverable on the blockchain, you know, that thing that is replicated EVERYWHERE.
going back to my first assumption, if LW provided us with a PORTION of the passphrase, then there are missing bits remaining to be discovered. If we have a portion of the passphrase, my hope is to discover it through brute force and I am relying on MY ASSUMPTIONS #2, 3, 4.
If Kappy is one of us, then my hope is he pulled something(s) from this board as the salt to wrap around the passphrase that the water above the waterfall provided.
I've got a whole bunch of assumptions that I'm working from, and the permutations in this is going to take a while to run through.
I have only hope, no confidence in my approach.
We are supposed to act like lightning, go through all avenues of approach until the strike is made. To me that says brute force.
That is where I'm at.
Where will you go?
didn't intend to truncate my (meh) code