​Sec3OP36516 posted this:​

​

/START FILE/
//CLASSIFIED/SITREP/
//
//ATTENTION OPERATIVES, WE ARE CURRENTLY ENGAGED IN TWO PRIMARY GOALS:
//
//1. LOCATE AND DECRYPT THE MISSING GLYPHS FOR THE NEW 'UNKNOWN' CODE. WE HAVE RECENTLY LEARNED OF THIS CODE, AND WE NOW KNOW THAT IT DOES NOT CONTAIN ARMOR OR EMBLEM SPECS. IN THIS CASE, IT HAS RESEARCH WHICH SHOULD GIVE AN XP BOOST TO INFINITY SPARTANS. INDIRECTLY, THIS WILL RESULT IN IMPROVEMENTS, AS IT WILL HELP SPARTANS ATTAIN HIGHER RANKS.
//SO FAR, WE HAVE LOCATED TWO OF THE GLYPHS, AND TODAY HYDRAI HAS REQUESTED ASSISTANCE IN UNSCRAMBLING YET ANOTHER.
//
//TO DO SO, IT REQUIRES A SERIES OF LETTERS, WHICH LIKELY LEAD TO A DATA NODE OF SOME TYPE, LIKE THIS: DATA NODE
//
//HYDRAI MAY HAVE PROVIDED US WITH A CLUE, BUT IT USED AN ESOTERIC ENCRYPTION SCHEMA (VERY SIMILAR TO ONES WE HAVE USED BEFORE) AND AT THIS TIME, IT HAS NOT BEEN DECYPHERED YET.
//
//
//2. FIND SPARTAN-IV SOLDIERS FROM THE INFINITY, WHO TOGETHER HAVE COMPLETED 1,000,000 WAR GAMES SIMULATIONS (IN MATCHMAKING MODE). THIS WILL COLLECT THE REQUIRED LEVEL OF SIMULATION DATA, REQUIRED TO PERFORM SOME FUTURE UNLOCK.
//
//
//THAT IS ALL FOR NOW. PLEASE STAY VIGILANT.
//
/END FILE/

​

There was a link for the datanode:

http://download.halowaypoint.com/content/waypoint/assets/images/classified/???????/i-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?.mp4



​Additionally, HydrAi posted the following on pg. 43 of the HydrAi thread:



|INITIALIZE TRANSMISSION|

GREETINGS OPERATORS. I AM IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE IN ORDER TO UNSCRAMBLE A DATA NODE. IT SEEMS THIS ONE WILL NOT BE TRIVIAL AS OTHERS HAVE BEEN, SO IT WILL REQUIRE MUCH GREATER TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL EFFORT.

TO BEGIN, I AM LOOKING FOR A SET OF LETTERS:

i-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?

(there was more info in the file, but not to this datanode)



​Additionally, HydrAi posted the following on pg. 44 of the HydrAi thread:

IGREAT NEWS, OPERATORS. THE FIRST TASK WILL NOT BE AS DIFFICULT AS I FIRST IMAGINED. I HAVE LOCATED SOME INFORMATION THAT WILL MAKE YOUR JOB CONSIDERABLY EASIER.

I HAVE FOUND THE FIRST LETTER IN THE SEQUENCE:

i-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?

(EVIDENTLY, ALL LETTERS WILL NEED TO BE MADE INTO LOWERCASE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR ORIGINAL CASING)|



Again, on pg. 50, HydrAi posted:

FA15E, YOU ARE. IN THE MEANTIME, I HAVE FIGURED OUT THE FIRST TWO LETTERS: i-i



A couple of our agents were able to put together clues. NinjaPleez911 posted:

"We've arrived at the conclusion [in the IRC chat] that there are three pieces to this particular puzzle. A book, in this case The Thursday War; a chapter, meaning Chapter 2; and the Fibonacci sequence.

Using the three together should provide us with the data we need, after we work out the kinks of sifting through so much data.



Zorplex;1732731 wrote:

/ATTENTION. VIABLE INTEL FOLLOWS./

i-i-s-h-u-h-h-t-w-n-g-e-h-e-s-p-k-u-o-u-h-l-h

/PLEASE CONFIRM./

HydrAi's response:

|SEEMS CLOSE. I CAN CONFIRM THIS: i-i-s-h-u-h-h-t-w-n-g-e-h-w-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?



This eventually through trial and error became:

http://download.halowaypoint.com/content/waypoint/assets/images/classified/lib1202/i-i-s-h-u-h-h-t-w-n-g-e-h-w-h-e-w-w-a-o-s-y-s.mp4



TheBruce found you needed to:

1. Rename to PNG

2. Extract Alpha channel from bottom 6 pixel rows, save as raw byte data
3. Binary is base64 string, decode and save as WAV
4. Strip data segment from WAV headers (remove null bytes if necessary) and save as ZIP
5. Extract sleuthGlyph.txt
6. Decode HEX
7. Decode Base64
8. PROFIT!



Gave us: http://pastebin.com/uCYrKX2u

when reduced, yeilded a "K" in the 3-dot code. 

http://puu.sh/1pvwL



SOLVED!!!