Enjoy the last 24 hours :
The first puzzle involved finding prime numbers hidden within a seemingly innocuous image. The answer lay in steganography—a technique for concealing information—hidden inside that image.
I received a phone call, followed by an official recruitment email, but that email has long since vanished.
The prime numbers, in order, were: 307, 383, 503, 617, 743, 883, 1013. The second puzzle was a Caesar cipher, a simple encryption technique.
The decrypted text read: "The answer is: 3301"
The third and final puzzle involved decrypting an encrypted data file. (5)
The decryption process required a combination of cryptographic techniques, including frequency analysis and cipher decryption. (6)
The decrypted file contained a simple message:
"WELL DONE, YOU HAVE PASSED THE TEST." (7)
Cicada 3301. Damn cicada.
2026-09-24 07:38:59