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Here's a writeup from the winning team on how they did every step. Spoilers if you still wanna solve it for yourself
http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/126411303994/defcon-23-badge-challenge
Page 2 has this listing:
VgjbhyqagorQrspbajvgubhgbhetbbqsevraqPnrfne
(fbzrgenqvgvbafjvyyarireqvr)
Hjvyyxabjjung2qbjuraHhafpenzoyr “Ubjqnqqlvfqbvat”
It's classic Rot13
I have photographed at least 5 lanyard types (one blurry, sorry). I have also photographed single sides of several other badges.
UPDATE: Here's more lanyard photos from Sean: https://twitter.com/SeanLeftBelow/status/629456979019194368
Press (Back)
Vendor (Front)
Goon (Front)
Human (Front)
Human (Back)
Update: more info here
http://pastebin.com/ZYFYtTt3Not sure if there is s better way/place to post or dump info but here goes :
Transcribed from the program defcon times
Page 2
VgjbhyqagorQrspbajvgubhgbhetbbqsevraqPnrfne
(fbzrgenqvgvbafjvyyarireqvr)
Hjvyyxabjjung2qbjuraHhafpenzoyr “Ubjqnqqlvfqbvat”
WFST HDXE HGY BNK BAWH QJG PSOR WNFATG IDDW OQUHVNKINGCY GQG CTUK.
Also the binary from the handout today
01000100 01000101 01000110 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001110 00100000 01010000 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01100101 01110011
Just converts to DEF CON Parties ;p
Just got the badges and ran into LoST so we have pictures of front and back of Uber badge.
Brian and I haven't gotten through registration yet but here's what we know:
Badges are an LP record. Does anyone have a recording of what's on there yet?
Lanyards have glyphs on them again. Well try photograph as many of them and post here as we can.
Human Badge is the Shavian Alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet#Letters
Letter for Letter Replacement (not phonetic)
Human Badge: Mystery is the source of all true art and science.
Blue Badge: be cool but care
Green Badge: We have no special constitutional powers, unless you consider the extraordinary rights accorded every U.S. citizen by law, in which case we are amply empowered to go about our business.
This is on the vinyl
DTMF tones at the end: 10571057105735266386333266105710571057733539727774727347932738436874262537726
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RrOzPETgkOAyyfOAaiH1DPGhNEDCKUm45jKSCBITUJs/edit?usp=sharing
There's a lot of the ciphertext solved on this wikia:
Some of the lanyard text looks like Poe's Goldbug cipher.
Isn't there also a Black record for previous Uber winners?
I'm heading for Vegas tomorrow morning. I'm bringing a record player with usb audio out, it'll be in the HHV.
blah, you peeps better have a good time, this is the second year in a row i will have to miss defcon because of siggraph.. was only the first time i'd missed in 10+ years, first HHV i missed too, not a happy camper :P
krs just packed and left a few minutes ago for vegas
I'm a volunteer in the Hardware Hacking Village this year (and have been most years, except for 2014) ... I'll be back in there this year, with a lot of tools, a 3D printer, and a 3D scanner.
If the badge is, in fact, non-electronic, I'm happy to help with fabrication puttering on-site at the con. Find me in the HHV!
Nice! Brian and I will certainly be stopping by. If the badge is non-electric I'll have to make sure I get my hands on the DarkNet badge and we can talk about that one too!
Usually DEFCON does an electronic badge on year, and the next they do a non electronic (but still cool) badge. This year's should contain some cypher text and similar to decode (along with other stuff) to get the black badge.
Well, not as fun as twiddling bits but I'll take what I can get for entertainment!
Mike Szczys
Al Williams
Lutetium
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Kate Morris
at 1:27 you can hear a beer can being opened.