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Re:Mossad 2018 challenge by anvandare on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:28AM (#16874936)
No coincidences with games like this. :) (I went over it again, and of course a simple blob isn't just a binary, it has no magic bytes or anything, stupid.) Using "Israel-is-70" gives me ... 3?.205.32.11 Which of course looks like an IP-address, but incomplete (the ? is C0). Probably made a mistake with the decoding of the key-part of the brainfuck. Still, only 10 numbers to pick from: 3[0-9].205.32.11

Edit: thanks to Seagull for pointing it out already, the key was off by one byte. So that gives 35.205.32.11

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Re:Mossad 2018 challenge by bernarpa on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:31AM (#16874949)
Are you sure? By doing the XOR I get 35.205.32.11...
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Re:Mossad 2018 challenge by jerry40 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:46AM (#16875022)
Ok, so actually the puzzle has been cracked. Nothing else we can do. This end was definitely not happy.
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Re:Mossad 2018 challenge by bernarpa on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:39AM (#16875352)
You're wrong... Go through an Israeli proxy to that IP (or via TOR by configuring exit nodes), it's only the beginning. ;-)
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Re:Mossad 2018 challenge by jerry40 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:58AM (#16875494)
Perhaps, but the fact IP hidden behind the wall means that this challenge is not for everyone. Disappointing. Good luck in your adventure though!
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