CICADA 3301 - PARTE 1 - CELLBIT

In January 2012 in the paranormal section of the 4chan forum an image was posted anonymously this image "said" to look for highly intelligent individuals . . .

and hidden inside this image a door was opening a door to an organization responsible for extremely complex puzzles posters and codes spread around the whole world references to ancient books and obscure religions what really happened to the people who were recruited? I'm Cellbit and in this series we will investigate all the details, informations and puzzles of CICADA 3301: THE BIGGEST MYSTERY OF THE INTERNET Playing: [Critical Thinking] by Philip Ayers *pepeJAM* Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals.

to find them we created a test there is a hidden message in this picture find it, and it will guide you down the road to find us. we are excited to know the few who will be able to cross all the way. Good Luck 3301 This.

. . was the image that started everything this image was posted by an anonymous user at 4chan which is a very popular forum where people can choose to be anonymous or not and obviously she started to get attention from a lot of people curious about what this was about the picture talks about having a message hidden inside it and she's all black so you would think about putting it in Photoshop and turn up the brightness to see if there's anything hidden in the black part of the picture and increasing her brightness you find a lot of little squares scattered all over the image this is going to be important but not now what you really need to do is to take this image, save it to your computer and open it as a text file [.

txt] opening this image with notepad you find exactly what you would find opening any other image with notepad which is a lot of meaningless bytes and characters but if you go down to the end of these characters you find this: TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says and a code The tip is super simple she refers to Caesar's Cipher which is an old encryption used by Julio César which basically consists of taking a letter of the alphabet and skip it a random number of times how tiberius claudius caesar was the fourth emperor of rome so you have to skip four letters of the alphabet But it's just not that simple because Caesar's cipher uses only the alphabet and here we have numbers and special characters like: = so how do you apply Caesar's cipher to that? basically you have to abandon the alphabet and use an ASCII table which is the table that categorizes all computer characters into numbers so now you get this code and return four values in the table for each letter and you find this: a link :) Playing: [The Genetic Code] by David Celeste *pepeJAM* Chapter: The Duck This link leads to - this image a image of a duck Wôooôops Just pranks around here Looks like you really can't guess how to decipher this message The picture seems to indicate that you are going to the wrong place but it's obviously a prank the tip of this picture is the words: GUESS and OUT which indicate . .

. a software called: OUTGUESS which is used to hide messages within images the way Outguess works is that it takes - image specific pixels and he changes their color in 1 value only 1 little value it increases - it is imperceptible to the naked eye but the program can recognize where these little squares and which squares are and can convert the position of these squares back to a message for example: if you put this duck image in photoshop and burst her color levels, you will see that there are a lot of weird little squares and now yes remember the squares of that first image? that was also Outguess using Outguess to convert these squares to a message you find.

. . the same message but.

. . after that this huge sequence appears of.

. . numbers and letters and.

. . what is that?

? calm down, this is very important but we get back to that already let's go back to the duck using Outguess on duck image you find, the next puzzle step Here's a book code. To find the book, and more informations, go to: and after that a huge sequence of numbers Good luck.

3301 Playing: [Cold Nights] by Kikoru Entering the link it's a subreddit FULL of posts that apparently doesn't make any sense it's just a bunch of random letters and all made by the same person CageThrottleUs of these dozens of posts the only post that wasn't made by this one: "CageThrottleUs" it was by a guy named: ImagoOnNib and the image is called - Problems? But beyond that that "CageThrottleUs" also posted a message - Welcome Thanks :) And that image was a welcome mat of those you put in front of the door and obviously this picture had a lot of squares so let's use Outguess on it using Outguess on this rug you find a message that is one of the most important things of all of Cicada 3301 Going forward, we will cryptographically sign all messages with this key. It is available on MIT servers.

ID: 7A35090F Patience is a virtue Good Luck 3301 And then the message again a huge sequence of completely random numbers and letters just like what we had seen in that first image ok what - what is that? that. .

. is a PGP Subscription PGP is an encryption system which literally translates to: "Pretty Good Privacy" and how does it work? summing up There is two different keys one key is responsible for locking and hiding a message you want in other words, encrypt it and the other key is used to unlock and reveal, the message that you hide in the first place but the key you use to hide the message it is public everyone has access to it you by yourself if you want to hide a message with the cicada key you can but the main key the one that unlocks and reveals the message it is secret and ONLY Cicada 3301 has it it can be used to sign messages and how is a secret key and no one has access to it it's impossible for you to copy or clone or make a fake signature So Cicada 3301, took these two keys and put them on the MIT servers ok, but what does that mean?

for us, who is following the path of - Cicada? that means we can get a key verification program like this Kleopatra - from Windows search for Cicada 3301 on MIT servers Obviously today a lot of people try to impersonate Cicada so there will be a lot of fake keys D: but you have to find it in the middle that ID they gave us 7A35090F finding this ID and selecting it you can simply copy a message that Cicada posted and paste into the program - and he will say if this message was officially signed by cicada or not This is the most important step of all to solve the puzzles of Cicada because then you are sure that everything you are solving comes straight from Cicada and not - someone impersonating them to fool innocent people in other words Cicada 3301, on a great move already left the key to verify that it's them right at the beginning of all the puzzles or rather saying they left the key . .

. under the entrance mat then you must be thinking: "ok, this whole process can be kind of boring" so a user on the internet made a website called: "Is it Cicada? " where you can simply copy and paste a message that you think is from Cicada 3301 and he will do all this verification process automatic for you ✅ so everything you need to do to know if it's Cicada or not is to give CTRL-C in the message and CTRL-V on this site it can't be easier than than that Ok?

Você Sabia? now there's no way to go wrong *he made a reference to a channel from Brazilian Youtube who made Cicada videos before but in a superficial and misleading way* *basically it was a joke* Playing: [By Lotus] by Iris Perfect, the first thing they gave us it was a way of - making sure we're solving riddles of them and not solving a fake one but that's just what the PGP key is going to do this here is not meant to solve any other puzzle now . .

. back to the puzzle Remember that post? Problems?

"from a dude called:" ImagoOnNib " this whole bizarre image is a stereogram created using an image of King Arthur this image there if you don't know, stereograms --- are images that create kind a 3D optical illusion those images you have to squint and find the right perspective then your brain will get a little bugged and he'll think he's seeing a 3D image In this case this specific stereogram formed the image of a chalice using that Outguess in this image you find a message The key has always been right in front of your eyes. This is not the search for the Holy Grail. Stop making things harder than they are.

Good Luck. 3301 In this whole image the real tip actually it's in the name of the guy who posted this picture Imago - is the last stage of an insect in metamorphosis is basically the moment when an insect becomes adult for example: this is a cicada or better, in English: Cicada (this was strange) entering the Imago stage but this is actually one more Cicada's smart joke because the real tip is that "Imago" is Image in Latin "On" is No and "Nib" is Nib (this was strange again) In other words "ImagoOnNib" can be translated to: "Imagem na Ponta" (Which is Imago On Nib) Probably referring to the image at the top end of Reddit this image, which is the first thing you see when you enter these scratches and dots are mayan numerals taking a little table of Mayan numbers and converting to our numbers they are: 10 (Ten) 2 (Two) 14 (Fourteen) 7 (Seven) 19 (Nineteen) 6 (Six) 18 (Eighteen) 12 (Twelve) 7 (Seven) 8 (Eight) 17 (Seventeen) 0 (Zero) and 19 (Nineteen) but these numbers alone mean nothing until you compare these numbers with the title of the reddit we're A2 E7 J6 IC 78 H0 J and the code goes on otherwise -- if you align these two clearly the upper letters represent the numbers below the A represents 10 E is 14 J is 19 I is 18 C is 12 H is 17 and J is 19 using this as a base you can translate the entire title to a sequence of 19 numbers and this sequence of numbers probably is the key that Imago was mentioning and that's basically how it works: first you will get all these meaningless posts and will put them all in one block of text where each post is a line now we get our numbers and uses as base of Caesar Cipher the first letter, you go back 10 letters of the alphabet the second letter you back 2 letters of the alphabet in the third letter, you go back 14 letters in the alphabet and you translate the rest of the entire code like this until you have - one text, full the text is a part of King Arthur's story Called: The Fountain Lady The Fountain Lady is an excerpt from a book called: Mabinogion a Mabinogion, is a collection of very ancient celtic stories and it contains stories that were written until 600 years ago and The Fountain Lady It's the story of a knight who loses the love of his life for devoting so much time . .

. to going out on your adventures and "MABINOGION" by the way. .

. is an anagram of - IMAGO ON NIB the real tip was this all the time this obviously explains all the tips about king arthur so far Playing: [Temporarily Virtual] by Cobby Costa Ok, now we have a huge text divided by lines and we had a book code remember? in the duck image that list of 1:20 2:3 3:5 this is a book code and he's very simple to do actually the first number represents the text line and the second number represents - the letter of this line I.

e 1:20 is the first line, the twentieth letter deciphering the entire code you find the phrase: Call us at the phone number Ok? Calling this phone number someone answered, and a recording was played *old phone feels* going back to that original image we have 3301 time to find the other two hidden numbers Ironically, they really aren't that hidden at all the image size was 509x503 resolution and these two numbers are prime numbers i. e, the size of the image itself was the prime numbers we were looking for 509x503x3301 = you find 845 million 145 thousand e 127 .

com and you may not have noticed, but that number has appeared before here when we went to check Cicada's signature that number was in their name entering 845 million, 145 thousand and 127 . com for the first time, we have officially, the logo of Cicada 3301 and underneath it had a countdown once again the Cicada logo was not just the Cicada logo if you used Photoshop you would see a lot of little squares i. e OutGuess using Outguess, the message was: "You did well to get here.

Patience is a virtue. Check back at 5:00 pm on January 9th. 3301.

" and obviously checking if this message is official from Cicada it's official, it's them it's all right at the end of the countdown the site has been updated with this: a lot of coordinates and now that the story begins to get a little more interesting these 14 coordinates are scattered all over the world more precisely in the United States in Australia in France in South Korea and in Poland checking these places on Google Maps there didn't seem to be anything special so people realized that they would have to go in a personal way at these coordinates, to see if they found anything and they found with all these coordinates were found posters with the Cicada 3301 logo and a QR Code below scanning these codes with your mobile phone you could find two different messages depending on the poster you scanned and at the end of these two messages had the same thing: "You have shared too much so far. We want the best, not the followers. The first to arrive here will receive the prize.

Good luck. 3301" from here things start to get very interesting so I'll leave it to the next part where we will finally have to enter the famous Deep Web and I will have to decipher some puzzles . .

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