User: Billy Donahue

What is "lpd_value_2" ?

On: Wired on Kipling

actually, we don't really know either of those. all we know is that at least one of them begins with http:// and that the winning value is a URL to a winner's page of some kind, of which http://www.kipling.com/hacker/game/login.html fits the description.

48 uniq only on first step..

On: Wired on Kipling

The lpd_code is XORred with the key
during the swap. If there are 48 uniq values
before the first swap, there may be 49 uniq values
after the second.
The lpd_code is modified by every swap...
So the number of possibilities is much higher.

Kipling Cracked

On: Typical Misinterpretation Of "Hacker"

um... this isn't true, everyone...

Anyone eager to code that in C?

On: Wired on Kipling

yeah, good thinking... of course, you'll then have to extract the username and password from the key, but that's probably not so bad... Getting the winning key would be a real step toward getting the user/pass..

My own little paranoid theory

On: Wired on Kipling

actually, we WOULD be able to tell.. only the winning combination would transform the 2 cyphertexts in the HTML into the plaintext, which is the url http://www.kipling.com/hacker/game/login.html or some such thing...

YOU shouldn't comment until you've read the code

On: Wired on Kipling

javascript doesn't have a uchar, and
the %256 is actually a floating-point modulus
operation in Javascript...
like fmod(x,256)... It's a bitch,
but that's how it is....
so every last bit of that PI value MUST be perfect.