"It appears each line of the "poem" for "I Ask Papacy" is some sort of puzzle. I'm not sure if they're all anagrams or a mixture of anagrams and clues. I wonder if the final password is also the first letter of each decoded line"
This was the very first thought I had when I started reading your post.
Excellent work pede, I shall take a look when I get to work and also spread the clues around my colleagues (without telling them what they are solving ;) )
I've been trying to get to pgp key stores but my company firewall is blocking me.
Is anyone able to check to see if the emial address for Isaac comes up with any stored keys?
BTW I read the bit about the wikileaks public key being available, but no private key. Note: pgp is symmetric. You can decrypt a file with the public key if it was encrypted with the private key.
It certainly points that way, so we are probably right to assume all the other lines are clues.
For example, the one about folding space? That's from Frank Herbert's 'Dune' series, the Guildsman were humans that have become mutated by the spice melange to fold space, i.e. moving, without moving.
"It appears each line of the "poem" for "I Ask Papacy" is some sort of puzzle. I'm not sure if they're all anagrams or a mixture of anagrams and clues. I wonder if the final password is also the first letter of each decoded line"
This was the very first thought I had when I started reading your post.
Excellent work pede, I shall take a look when I get to work and also spread the clues around my colleagues (without telling them what they are solving ;) )
I've been trying to get to pgp key stores but my company firewall is blocking me.
Is anyone able to check to see if the emial address for Isaac comes up with any stored keys?
BTW I read the bit about the wikileaks public key being available, but no private key. Note: pgp is symmetric. You can decrypt a file with the public key if it was encrypted with the private key.
I just came across these tweets recorded from Lin Wood, and the phrase used looked to be along the same lines as the 'cultstate' password phrase..
https://i0.wp.com/steverotter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Arrests-and-Executions-of-famous-people.png?resize=720%2C424&ssl=1
I was digging around the site and I think the files are in a bucket referenced somewhere in here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200930210315/https://github.com/Emblem21-OpenSource/wasabi-store-sdk
file isn't a truecrypt volume and it doesn't work with openssl. Openssl files start with "salted' in the file and that isn't there.
looks like it is a gpg file.. passwords don't work :(
alright. calling it quits. this isn't going anywhere.
after some digging, emblem21 appeared to be a github repository that is no longer active, at least that's what the url pointed at
edit: and yes, it was linked in my searches to patrick ryan. there is a nitter account for cultstate.com
It certainly points that way, so we are probably right to assume all the other lines are clues.
For example, the one about folding space? That's from Frank Herbert's 'Dune' series, the Guildsman were humans that have become mutated by the spice melange to fold space, i.e. moving, without moving.
Pi as kapacy.