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[sigmaleph]

https://youshallnotpass.glitch.me/

ok, this was fun and silly. your goal is to come up with a password fitting all the criteria in each scheme, which you don't know ahead of time but learn as your passwords progressively fail them.

(I don't know how many schemes there are, I did not complete 3 because effort. maybe i'll give it another try later)

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[brin_bellway]

Thanks for the link!

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I found Scheme 3 fairly easy to brute-force, or maybe I just got lucky. It *might* be the last scheme, but the message I got at the end makes me wonder.

Spoilers: nsgre cnfgvat va n ohapu bs cv qvtvgf (qvqa'g pbhag rknpgyl ubj znal, nccneragyl vg jnf rabhtu) naq gelvat inevbhf punenpgref ng gur raq hagvy V fghzoyrq npebff n fgevat jvgu na ZQ5 unfu ortvaavat jvgu 0, vg gbyq zr vg unq eha bhg bs cnffjbeqf sbe gur qnl naq "pyvpx urer gb tvir hc". Gur yvax jnf gb gur VC nqqerff sbe ybpnyubfg.

[sigmaleph]

huh. I did not try brute forcing (within the website). It shouldn't be *hard*, just, didn't want to; I was gonna write a script to generate passwords that met the previous conditions and hash them, which is in fact brute forcing, but, y'know, not where they can see and i can have a computer do it for me.

anyway I did not actually do that because effort, might try later. If I get a different result I will let you know.

[sigmaleph]

based on multiple reports from other people and what I got after doing it myself, it seems indeed that it just says that when you pass the third scheme, independently of how many attempts you've made (I know for a fact I took fewer attempts to solve the whole thing today than I took to solve the first scheme the first time, since I could just reuse solutions for the first two and brute-forced the third one elsewhere)

incidentally, the crosspost of this post became unusually-for-me popular on tumblr.