Thursday, April 26, 2018

cipher - Staff Party, can I go?


So, there's a really cool professor at the college I'm starting to teach at. He throws pretty awesome faculty parties every month, but you can only get in if you are able to figure out the password. This month, he says the password is the title of his favorite movie. It seems like he understands that I'm new, because he emailed me a hint. Unfortunately, all it is is an image and a note! The note says:



Sorry if it doesn't make much sense. I realized I had the wrong keyboard plugged in when I wrote it.




Here is the image that he sent me:


Corn Flakes


What does it all mean? How can I get a movie title from a box of cereal?


Edit: As it has already been extracted by @Beastly Gerbil, here is the hidden QR code in higher quality:



QR Code




Answer





Here's some black and white images of the QR code hidden (unsuccessfully :P) in the package to the left of the eye.



qr2


My QR Detector decodes this as:



01000011+01111001+00100000+01100011+01101111+00100000+01100001+00100000+01100101+01100001+01110000+01110100+00100000+01111001+01100011+01101101+00101110+00100000+01110101+01110010+01110000+00100000+01111001+01100100+00101110+00100000+01010000+00101110+01111000+00101110+01101110+01101110+01100011+01110010+01100010+01110110+00100000+01000001+01101110+01111001+01100100+01110010+01100111+01101001+01100100+00100000+01111001+01100100+00101110+00100000+01000101+00101110+01100001+01111001+01100100+00100000+01001111+01111001+01100001+01110000+00100000+01100100+01100001+01101111+00100000+01111000+00101110+00101110+01100010+00100000+01100101+00101110+01101111+01111001+01110000+01110010+01100110+00101110+01100101+01110111+00100000+01000011+01101101+01101100+00101110+01110000+01100011+01100001+01101110+00100000+01111001+01110000+01110010+01110010+01101100+01101111+00100000+01100100+01100001+01101011+00101110+00100000+01100101+01110000+01100011+01101011+00101110+01100010+00100000+01111001+01100100+0



This appears to be binary and decodes as:



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The note from the professor says



"Sorry if it doesn't make much sense. I realized I had the wrong keyboard plugged in when I wrote it".



As @Sleafer points out on the Dvorak Keyboard this is:



It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven th



So the movie is:




Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back



Because the phrase is part of the opening crawl of the movie: (thanks to @gtwebb)



"It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy.

Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth.

The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space…."



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