Riddler Lessons 3.0
Well well well. You guys are amazing. As always let's have a breakdown of what
happened.

First Puzzle http://www.filedropper.com/box1zip
First Puzzle Solution http://pastebin.com/6UN1ayC8
Second Puzzle http://pastebin.com/4kuAZziz
Second Puzzle Solution http://pastebin.com/sWuWJ2Ms
Current Puzzle http://pastebin.com/SEZFiU84
Tools - http://www.gpg4win.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/?source=typ_redirect

Original Post
I've been gone for awhile, so get ready folks. This puzzle begins the same as the rest. Everything you need to open the first box is in this post.

Sol:
So this is sort of a twist on the usually way I start puzzles. Instead of taking
the SHA1SUM of the image I posted. Copy this text into a plain text file and then
take the SHA1SUM of that to get your first password.

Hint 1
Well you got the first box. How long did it take you? Did you get frustrated?
Did you want to quit? I bet you did, but you didn't so congrats Dork Knight. I bet
you wish the puzle was over, but it's just begun. This picture is a zip file.


Sol:
In this directory there is an image and this hint file (and the box as well). The
solution is really quite simple. The image IS a zip file. Use winrar or 7zip to
extract the password from the picture and you get a plain text document named
password with the contents
"Congrats the password is merger"

Hint 2
Two puzzles down, wow aren't you impressive, but this next puzzle is a bit more
academic. A sequence of FIBS is a collection of lies. The password
to the next box is the 40th of these.

Sol:
This hint goes a little abstract, but I wanted to really stretch your imagination
and give that abstract Riddler feel to this set. FIBS is capitalized and more
importantly is close to the word collection. What am I referring to? Why the fibbonaci
sequence of course! So give me the 40th term which is 102334155

Hint 3
No hints no pictures. This is all you need. (Followed by trailing gibberish)

Sol:
This is again a remix on a previous puzzle. While any notepad editor will open
this text file you will also see a bunch of gibberish. That's because this is
plain text and zip file merged together as one. Once again unzip it and you will
a password file containing the text "SOS" or Same Old Shit.

Hint 4
You might be thinking. Two puzzles with the same answers? Eddy you lazy cheat!
Give me something tough something to make me cry!
87 105 116 104 111 117 116 109 101 88 109 97 115 99 97 110 110 111 116 108 105 118
101 44 98 117 116 98 121 116 104 101 116 105 109 101 116 104 101 104 111 108
105 100 97 121 115 99 111 109 101 97 114 111 117 110 100 73 109 32 97 108 114
101 97 100 121 32 100 101 97 100 32 40 111 114 32 100 97 109 110 32 99 108 111
115 101 41 46 32 87 104 97 116 32 97 109 32 73 63

Sol:
This one requires a knowledge of CS or really binary. You see those numbers represent
letters and any Computer Scientist should immediately notice that none of the
numbers go above 255. Why is this? Well on computers the simplest way to represent
text is using ASCII. ASCII translates values of 0-255 into english alphanumeric
representations. I won't bore you with the details but you can read more about it
here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII. So take those numbers and plug them
into an ASCII converter like this one https://www.branah.com/ascii-converter and
you get
W i t h o u t m e X m a s c a n n o t l i v
e , b u t b y t h e t i m e t h e h o l
i d a y s c o m e a r o u n d I m   a l r
e a d y   d e a d   ( o r   d a m n   c l o
s e ) .   W h a t   a m   I ?
Which of course is a tree!

Hint 5
What present should you give a baking goth?

Sol:
This is a corny puzzle joke. The answer is a "cookie cutter"

Hint 6
They say a picture is worth a thousand words so how many pictures is this worth?
(And then it links to a large string of what appears to be gibberish).

Sol:
Once again your old pal Eddy has decided to screw with you a very serious way.
You see that gigantic wall of text is a base64 encoded file. What the hell is
base64? Well say you wanted to represent a file (any type) as words. You could
do so by taking each byte and making it equivalent to some character. Well base64
does this you can read how here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64. The main
hint here is that this string is a picture (how many pictures is this worth?)
So take that string of characters and decode that base64 string and you will
get a photo. What of? Why the Mona Lisa of course! Take the sha1sum of that
(as has become so customary in my puzzles) and you've got your password!

Hint 7
The final hint is not text at all. It's an image of me! With text at the top
in a white border stating "Here's my picture you should hang it on your wall"

Sol:
This puzzle is all about hiding in plain sight. This is designed to drive you
guys insane as there's no hint! Well the real trick here is that the photo has
the password on it already. It's in the white border is a is a color that is literally
one shad off from being white. So how the hell do I read it then? Well this
is a great resource http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ricko/CSE3/Lab8.pdf. Follow the directions
and you see in the bottom "Layers" Which is the final password!

Final Sol
It's done you did it! I hope this puzzle hunt was fun. Post the following thread next to your list in the thread and expect a gift!
If Santa was a dog he'd be Santa Paws!


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