I hope this is on the front page when I wake up in the morning. This is the most intriguing post I’ve seen in three years. Maybe my thinking will be more up to the task by then as well.
Perhaps the answer is in a one-time pad. If this is the case then it will be impossible to discern, unless you have the key. There is also a possibility that you have stumbled upon a one-time pad and all you need to do is tune your shortwave radio to the proper frequency at the correct time.
“Reading this, all I see is a dozen redditors reading the first three sentences then scoffing, saying “Oh well Old Boy, it’s a dead drop, all us MI6 types know that” Why would anybody bother, heading all the way out to secure it under a bridge, when you could just hide the exact same information in a web-page, or graffiti on a wall, or any one of a million better places than having your contact have to navigate a river to get to it? Dead drops are kind of redundant since Tor and VPN’s became easily accessible. The only way it would happen is if it was part of some sort of game, where you have to go to a certain location to find, I don’t know, clues to something, some sort of cache or whatever. But that’s just silly! “
It’s an MD5 hash. It works like this. Spies steal information, encrypt it and generate the MD5 on a random public computer terminal, transfer the encrypted data minus the hash to a second random computer where it is then sent to a server in another country before it is downloaded by whoever has employed the spy. For security reasons the MD5 hash is not sent online. It is dropped in physical form at a secret location. In this way if the data transfer is compromised it will be worthless.
I hope this is on the front page when I wake up in the morning. This is the most intriguing post I’ve seen in three years. Maybe my thinking will be more up to the task by then as well.
email the coords to the local geocaching moderator… they can tell you of it is part of a multicache
Access key for a router maybe?
Could be a gift certificate code. Try using it in WoW, geocashers seem the type.
Perhaps the answer is in a one-time pad. If this is the case then it will be impossible to discern, unless you have the key. There is also a possibility that you have stumbled upon a one-time pad and all you need to do is tune your shortwave radio to the proper frequency at the correct time.
“Reading this, all I see is a dozen redditors reading the first three sentences then scoffing, saying “Oh well Old Boy, it’s a dead drop, all us MI6 types know that” Why would anybody bother, heading all the way out to secure it under a bridge, when you could just hide the exact same information in a web-page, or graffiti on a wall, or any one of a million better places than having your contact have to navigate a river to get to it? Dead drops are kind of redundant since Tor and VPN’s became easily accessible. The only way it would happen is if it was part of some sort of game, where you have to go to a certain location to find, I don’t know, clues to something, some sort of cache or whatever. But that’s just silly! “
was there a winxp install disk laying around there?
“It decodes into “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine” “
Please don’t uninstall the serial code since the bridge will stop working.
It’s an MD5 hash. It works like this. Spies steal information, encrypt it and generate the MD5 on a random public computer terminal, transfer the encrypted data minus the hash to a second random computer where it is then sent to a server in another country before it is downloaded by whoever has employed the spy. For security reasons the MD5 hash is not sent online. It is dropped in physical form at a secret location. In this way if the data transfer is compromised it will be worthless.