Fbi And Cryptobin

Discussion in 'Technical Support' started by Anashel, Feb 10, 2016.

  1. Anashel

    Anashel Puppet Master Staff Member

    On February 9, 2016 a hacker group posted top secret information about several government contacts, prompting the FBI to take offensive action. This ongoing war between the hacker group and the FBI is affecting one of our communication channels: Cryptobin.

    Several missions will currently be unavailable for our agents to complete including Mission 14, 15 and 23 of Season 2. We are working on alternatives and plan to have a solution set up shortly.

    We will update you as soon as we have new information on the matter.
     
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  2. themadhuman

    themadhuman Division-79

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  3. JantsoP

    JantsoP Division 88 Manager

    The issue here is that only allows the encryption be only up to 6 months on the site and plus it's a third party. On the IRC there was discussion about not using 3rd party anymore due to this recent FBI stuff. I have posted @Anashel an close enough script which can be run on game's own server or do they think of something else.
     
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  4. themadhuman

    themadhuman Division-79

    Didn't notice the six month limit... good eye. Guess on a public forum like that there would always be the risk of someone ruining it for the rest of us.

    On a different note-can't you do mission 23 without cryptobin? You wouldn't be able to check your answer first, but it is possible if I remember right.
     
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  5. zaelong

    zaelong Moderator

    if i remember correctly, the azuro's missions are all two-parters; first you must figure out the link and pass and then solve the research part he asks of you ie identify this man. the latter part has to be inserted into the client; so as of yet. we are too reliant on cryptobin....
     
  6. JantsoP

    JantsoP Division 88 Manager

    Currently the latest missions sets are using cryptobin to make mission go forward.

    To my knowledge, there is no so called "backup" in place yet
    EDIT: @crux from dev team told in IRC that an encrypted PDF system will be placed while they are trying to make an better solution for the future missions. PDF system will go live today or early tomorrow
     
  7. JantsoP

    JantsoP Division 88 Manager

    Might have found an workaround for it. Please wait for confirmation...
    Confirmed.

    Workaround:
    Change the cryptobin.org domain to https://151.236.7.117 and ignore the SSL warning. Then you can use cryptobin w/o issues :)
    Just add the document ID after the IP and it will work

    Proof
    [​IMG]

    Proof of real cryptobin IP
    [​IMG]
     
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  8. themadhuman

    themadhuman Division-79

  9. MidDipper

    MidDipper Division-79

    I don't think that way will be usable for much longer and discourage others from using it. Cryptobin is definitely being monitored at this point and if a different group attempts to use it for similar purposes it will likely be taken down permanently, if the process hasn't already begun. We can't be reliant on this site.
     
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  10. crux

    crux Special Adviser

    All the missions containing Cryptobin links have been replaced with encrypted PDF's stored in the Archive. Affected missions should now be able to be completed by accessing these encrypted PDF's. Image puzzles have been changed to reflect this. Please let me know if any of the puzzles are not working as intended.
     
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  11. NoShitSherlock

    NoShitSherlock Senior Agent

    Is it possible to also replace the cryptobin links from the sandbox missions plz?
     
  12. zaelong

    zaelong Moderator

    The cryptobin.org links can be replaced by cryptobin.co
    This works for the time being...
     
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  13. crux

    crux Special Adviser

    The cryptobin.org links I could find in the available sandboxes were changed to working cryptobin.co links. If anyone finds a link that is still a broken cryptobin.org link, please let me know and I will update it or get in touch with the author to request modified content.
     
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  14. ManofDecember

    ManofDecember New Agent

    Cryptobin.co is down as "server took to long to respond" - is there anyway I can access this file, without using cryptobin.co?

    (for Operation Hidden Crescendo, eye of the turtle)
     
  15. crux

    crux Special Adviser

    Hi! I'm looking into that mission and will let you know when we've patched up a solution. Thanks for letting us know about the new cryptobin outage!
     
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  16. themadhuman

    themadhuman Division-79

    It looks like they have added cryptobin.co and cryptobin.jp to the block, time to ditch it for good-if I am reading the data right.
     
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  17. crux

    crux Special Adviser

    It appears that cryptobin.co is working again, for now it looks like you'll be able to complete the mission. We're going to continue working to build in some redundancy for the sandbox missions that currently rely on cryptobin.
     
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  18. Louis33

    Louis33 New Agent

    I've seen your ability to contact people to recover or change a Username. My E-mail address is locked in there somewhere and I can't remember the name I signed on with. Anything you can do?
     
  19. Anashel

    Anashel Puppet Master Staff Member

    Hi Agent Louis33,

    I just contacted you in private to fix this. :)
     

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