On September 5, there were documents released about a plan to take down Devra Bogdanovich. Inside it, we uncover 3 codes.
Once again, all passcodes will be in the format:
[2-9][a-z][a-z][a-z][2-9]keyword[a-z][2-9][a-z][2-9][a-z]
Page 1 (Difficulty: N/A)
8tb7sculptv923z
Page 2
Code 1 (Difficulty: 1/5)
m3j5enlxelx6asu7
The code appears to be in the right passcode format in reverse:
7usa6xlexlne5j3m
Trying the usual “first-steps” (atbash/caesar) reveals atbash is the right cipher:
7fhz6covcomv5q3n
This passcode was actually in September 4th’s Ingress Report
Code 2 (Difficulty: 4/5)
The passcode is along the bottom edge starting from the left of the page in braille, transcribing it:
cghlnlkpmotrsvxwwyybdbwffegheieo
Examining the characters carefully reveal the alphabetical indexes of the characters are slightly increasing as the code progresses, as seen in the chart below:
Using vigenere decrypt with abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz as the key on the code:
cffijgeiefjggijhghgijgaihfggcfaj
All the values seem to be within the a-j range, converting those to 0-9 and pairing up:
25 58 96 48 45 96 68 97 67 68 96 08 75 66 25 09
Each pair needs to be reversed to produce proper decimal values for the range of valid passcode characters:
52 85 69 84 54 69 86 79 76 86 69 80 57 66 52 904UET6EVOLVEP9B4Z
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For the passcode of the page1, you said as introduction the format is : [2-9][a-z][a-z][a-z][2-9]keyword[a-z][2-9][a-z][2-9][a-z] but the passcode solved is : 8tb7sculptv923z (another format like [2-9][a-z][a-z][2-9]keyword[a-z][2-9][2-9][2-9][a-z] …)