Crypt Level 7

Don’t over think the level mate. It is not easy, there is nothing you can see that is not useful from the two links and the hint too. There is some interesting things hidden from plain sight. Good luck. :)

Should I treat the row length as 16?
Is replacing values completely wrong?

@PinkRat: You may want to complete Coding Levels or Real Levels first. Crypt Level 7 can’t be solved without “a piece of insight”.

Ok. Recently found the site. Have breezed through other levels. Hit brick wall at Crypt 7..

We all DID hit that brick wall. There are about 15 people who have completed Crypt Level 7. And take a look at Crypt Level 7 discussion thread: 4 closed threads!

All I can say is “Good luck to you!”.

Ok. Thanks for replies. Back to thinking….

Hi @Pinkrat

As you can see from my profile, Crypt 7 is the last fortress to conquer. From my point of view, the level is the toughest on HT!! at this moment. I achieved about 50% and was able to understand what they had said in another threads. However I was stuck right there. I am waiting for you because if I can solve that much, you can too!

@freewind1012: What do you mean “a piece of insight”?

Yeah mate freewind is correct read through all the threads and believe me there is a lot as well as a lot of crap in them. So take your time, all the answers are there but you need to know what your are looking for and what things might be. Like I said what you are looking for it hidden from sight and all the clues lead you on and on to the next one and it will drive up the wall but worth the trouble in the end. Keeper made a good job of the level. Good luck, you’ll need it! :)

Freewinds insight is only gained through time spent on this site and understanding how its members like Flabbyrabbit, or Keeper might think.

Will we know the password as soon as we decode it? Or is it one of those random-character passwords?

@kapuccino: To be honest, that is still the mystery to me. LOL. :p
@qwerert: You will realize the password of this level as soon as you decode it right. If you still have no idea or not sure, then it is not the password which you are looking for.

Hi All,

Check Crypt 1 use that logic over here for the first part. As soon as you are done with the first part you will reach a website with a pic. Do a research on the pic and you will find something that will help you in the next part of the quest eventually getting you to the answer.

Well there is one thread which i think has all the hints necessary. But when it comes to the password, everyone faced the same problem! :p

Yes @IAmDevil you are right to find the key is where I think everyone faced the problem.

Anyone who has already completed this level and have actually find the key somewhere request you to please PM me. I would really like to know from where you find the key.

I think we should leave this thread like this because no one has done any progress to the ultimate solution. :p

@tlotr: There’s another way to reach to the password, you know that.

Hey but shouldn’t we know the exact location @freewind1012 ? It keeps bugging me! :p

@IAmDevil:
For someone who has completed Crypt Level 7, everything is still the same. Seems that no one figured out how it was like that, except @flabbyrabbit and @Keeper .

For someone who hasn’t completed the level yet, there’s another way to do that. How? Be curious!

I don’t think the key is hidden anywhere. It’s meant to be cracked. My problem is that I can’t be completely sure if I have the right ciphertext.

@freewind1012 : I do not know another way to get the password.

@tlotr: Ironically, yes you do.

@freewind1012 : Would you please PM me and let me know the another way to get the password.

The way I got the password was by fiddling with the cipher text.

[Quote=“tlotr”] The way I got the password was by fiddling with the cipher text. [/quote]

…what?

@qwerert : Have you got the cipher text? Do you know which Cipher method to be used to decrypt the Cipher Text? If you know both then PM me.

Well i think @freewind1012 was also talking about the same method which we all used @tlotr .
So far i only know how to derive the password. ?

[quote=*le me]For someone who has completed Crypt Level 7, everything is still the same. Seems that no one figured out how it was like that, except flabbyrabbit and Keeper.

For someone who hasn’t completed the level yet, there’s another way to do that. How? Be curious![/quote]

@IAmDevil: I actually meant another way to complete this level for newbies.

Well flabbyrabbit and Keeper would know how to do it exactly, keeper wrote the level and flabby has to approve it.

That was difficult.

Tlotr, what you did was decrypt the ciphertext. :P

Well that’s the tricky part there. Its like making Something from Nothing. ?

Password is ten chars

The hint was quite clear by saying “substituting”.. I’m not sure what you’re all talking about with other ways to find the password. There is always another way, some are easier or more straightforward than others but still :p

Hi @Memoria

What do you mean by Substituting? Substituting what exactly?

I can’t find another word to describe, this is just fitting perfectly to the last step of the level for me.

Haha or maybe there’s only one way to do it, i.e. by substitution !

Substitution, we all know that. But it comes to the core question: How the hell did we know the length of the key? Any hint / tip from the level or the files? No!

Did all of you brute-force the key without knowing the length?

You shouldn’t need the length of the key key to brute force it. Most programs allow you to brute force the key without knowing the length. However, the programs were giving me nonsense and the tip functions weren’t working, so I had to try a different approach.

Okay guys, you wanted to know how to find the key length to an encrypted text?
In most cryptographic functions, the length of the key is important and is one of the security parameter. Check out this website, it might help you. KEY LENGTH

To anyone who have completed Crypt Level 7: Let’s say this in a bigger scale.

1/ How did you know the length of a key?
Is there any tip / hint from the level, the files or any article? Or did you read it somewhere and assume that the length must be right?

2/ What if several characters were not something familiar or they were not there?
“Several characters” (you know what I am talking about, right?) are the most important clue to say if you are in the right track. What if that string wasn’t there? If it wasn’t there, the key would be iamgood or iambad or whatever, right?

Freewind, what exactly are you referring to?

I got a bit lucky by working backwards. I tried encrypting what I thought would be part of the decrypted text and got the password. I’m not completely sure what you guys are referring to.

I tried encrypting what I thought would be part of the decrypted text[/spoiler]
What did make you think so? What if
[spoiler]there was not any “part”?

Guess I should have pm’d you. :p

Sorry.

If there was no “part”, it would be almost impossible to solve.

I think everybody did the same thing. They tried to figure out the part of the cipher text and while doing so they found out the key and then they passed the level.

If we add up all the pages for crypt level 7, we almost have as much as crypt 6!

Yes @qwerert you are right. I would request @Pinkrat to close this thread now. There are lot of hints provided on this thread with which you and anyone else can complete this level.

Sorry… been away on my real job.. Thread about to close. Thanks to all.