If I ever considered a transition into cryptography, this story just blew that idea up for me, forever.<p>I can't imagine trying to solve this! You'd have to love puzzles with an insatiable appetite to endure this.<p>Good job, team.
Taking the following line from the Cryptex we can decode our message.<p>BBVB4RCVARLU<p>This is whats called an OTP or One Time Pad encryption.
<a href="http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/otp.php" rel="nofollow">http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/otp.php</a><p>OTP cannot be decrypted unless you discern the unique pad.<p>They lost me here, how did this get figured out?
Loved reading this. Some incredible reasoning, even being shown the answer there are multiple stages I can't follow the reasoning that allowed them to progress.
Kudos, respect, and jealousy!
That was kinda insane! Now I have to wonder just how many bits of random stuff get handed out to Defcon attendees that might or might not be part of some sort of puzzle like this.