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Anyone who claims they solved cicada 3301 is lying. No one has gotten to the VLT/JMP puzzles yet or the geocaching puzzle. I was involved with the making of a lot of this autism.

Also there will be no new puzzles. The main website that it was run from (strategic intelligence network) is down and the owner is missing, along with the gpg key needed to sign messages and give out additional clues.

Its a dead meme and I hope it fucking dies, and everyone forgets our failures.

>>919530

If you want some cool ideas for puzzles, here were some WIP ideas that were being tried before things fell apart:

>a language based on cuiniform that acted as its own shitty assembly. People would have to work out how the machine functioned, and get a result.

>a highly obsufcated client that would connect to a tor node. People would have to home cook a socks5 proxy, force it to connect via passport or some shit, and reverse how it was talking to the server

>some gay ass radio beacon in the middle of nevada that ran off solar and flagrantly violated fcc regulations. the reward was some token coin thingy and an install disk for this cool weird microkernal thing.

>Some weird esoteric book written in a home cooked language. It came with a documentary about some mayan shit that was re-dubbed in the language. People would have to figure out what characters went with what pheonetic sounds, and then with the translation of the documentary, figure out the book.

>some other weird NFC tag thing, where they made an nfc tag that was really fucking big and the entenna burried around in like a hoop. I don't know what the reward was or why because the forum is down.

There are more but I can't be bothered to remember them. If you guys want to start your own Illuminati or some shit then you can make some puzzles.

>>919677

You want a serious hint? Libre Primus is a red herring, and is meant to explain the ideology of the group to new members. Remember this is an Illuminati style organization (I mean in the literal Bavarian Illuminati sense, not the take over the world sense).

If you still want to go after the rest of the puzzle, then go back and look at stuff relating to the disk. Eventually you will hit an onion address, where things will immediately stop because the host (ecatel) got sued for unrelated reasons, and transferred all of their services to a new company. While there is a backup of what was on that server still around, the private key for the onion address was lost.

>cicada

lol