Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have to Solve a Puzzle

Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by mbrameld on Friday June 29, 2012 @12:55PM (#4177623)

Got to the step with what looks like a hash in the instruction param, no idea what to do with it. I'm not cool enough for these guys :(

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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by jcampbell1 on Friday June 29, 2012 @02:11PM (#4178113)

Whenever you see something like '9234d87d07ad4a3f', you know that is hex. Whenever you see something like 'Kfj+sS8Absa==', it is a good bet it is base64. Hex uses 0-9,a-f (16 digits), base64 uses A-Z,a-z,0-9,/,+ (64 digits).

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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by eggbrain on Friday June 29, 2012 @01:08PM (#4177692)

I'm trying to not give it away, but by Google searching "encode jquery" (without quotes), the answer was the 4th ("suggested") dropdown result.

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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by picardo on Friday June 29, 2012 @03:13PM (#4178488)

Base64 decryption only works for the first part of the hash, though. The second part after the slash is still garbled. :/

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Re:Want a Ticket to eCommerce Hackathon? First You’ll Have t... by jurre on Friday June 29, 2012 @03:53PM (#4178702)

try a different decoder (utf-8 is the key here i think) :)

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