![[0905] Cicada Decrypt0r 3.3.0.1](/comics/2017-07-24-0905-cicada-decrypt0r-3301.png "[0905] Cicada Decrypt0r 3.3.0.1")
Update [31 August 2017]: I made this strip available again today. However, please do no longer send Woocoins or any other emails at the given email address. I will NOT answer them anymore!
Here is the email address again: cicada-decrypt0r@yandex.ru
This was wayyyy too much work. Various things I tried didn’t work out at first or took longer than I thought.
I will delete certain comments about the content of the encrypted strip and various other topics related to it. We here at Cicada 3301 want the best, not the followers!
Woocoins don’t count as entry for the fanart contest 2017!
Update [Tuesday, 11:00]: We received 300 Woocoins already! By this rate, we’re going to be rich beyond our wildest dreams! Thank you to everybody who contributed!
Update [Tuesday, 21:25]: All right, the number of sent in Woocoins is slowly going down. It was a pleasure to see all the creative ideas and wonderful art! But I have to put an end to this enormous time sink for me a little earlier than announced in the strip. Point midnight tomorrow, I will take the strip offline. I will then release the hidden strip to the general public in one month as an extra update on 28 August 2017.
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greeeat. I draw like crap. Welp, time to once again draw like I’m tumbling down a mountain in a tornado while riding a tilt-a-whirl.
HMRC4EVR wrote:
The Woocoin doesn’t have to be pretty, only recognizable. And rare! (That means: Drawn by yourself.)
@all: Don’t expect an immediate answer to your email. It’s past midnight here and I’m very tired after working on this strip for the whole day.
@ Novil:
Do you want us to decrypt it. Can it even be decrypted. Or is the woocoin mandatory?
Martin wrote:
Yes, it’s meant to be decrypted.
It’s possible to decrypt it without the Woocoin. But it requires the right idea and quite some time to write a custom script in a programming language of your choice.
Actually i just got some decryption ideas. Ill prepare a woocoin in advance and try solving it tomorrow.
Decryption? Hell with that, this is the closest I’ve come to actually being able to make some sense of one of those Magic Eye pictures… *squint*
This reminds me of the old ‘Amish Virus’. 🙂
I’d like to point out a few details regarding the due process if I may.
First off, this feels suspiciously like ransomware, only it’s asking people to create instead of donate. Secondly, I’m pretty sure that this doesn’t bear any relation to the actual Cicada 3301 puzzles or group beyond the intended purpose of decryption. Third, I can appreciate the level of dedication that went into this, but at first I thought your site had been taken over by some form of malware – Might be an idea to specify that it isn’t intended as such next time.
I appreciate the creativity, but I just don’t have time to deal with this right now…
I sent a coin. This is really creative and I love it.
*Sees the ransomware decryption whatever stuff*
…yeah I guess I’ll just come back in a few days.
HMRC4EVR wrote:
At least it wasn’t a Sandracoin. They’re worth a million times the value of a Woocoin simply because of how hard they are to draw.
Welp, guess I’m going to spend a month away from the site until this thing is over.
11 of 11 security agency agree that this site was hacked by a 400 lb (900 kg) racoon sitting on a bed
Sid wrote:
Dang it, Larisa!
*tries using 3D glasses* *nothing* Well, I’ve done all I can do.
@ Rhys Lawson:
Most regular readers got the joke immediately though.
“Woocoin” and “Central Bank of Northia” kinda let everyone else on the spoof.
Novil wrote:
I hope you will enjoy my terrible artz. 😛
…maybe. Haven’t decided yet.
I am not installing outguess
Missingno. Master wrote:
You have to turn the glasses upside down.
Encryption… damn! Who do I know who’s good at decrypting stuff? The guys at GCHQ are, of course – they’ve probably decrypted it already (it will have been trivially easy for them). Which means that it’s 1. Information that they possess, and since it’s 2. Not covered by any security restriction, and 3. not published anywhere (yet), it meets all the requirements under the Freedom of Information Act, and I can just make a freedom of information request for the decrypted strip! This has to work! I’m a taxpayer, damn it, they’ve no reason to refuse! >:=)>
It’s one of those magic eye images, but it’s hard to make out. I only see the two front wheels of…something. I’m looking at it from the front left corner.
Great idea, clever, creative, and topical, and a good way to interact with readers and make us think. Unfortunately, not the most convenient when you have a 10 minute coffee break and want you quick comic fix…. I wonder if the IT department could handle this…
When I first saw the static, I thought there was something wrong with the site at first. Clever. Very clever.
So… Do I have to draw both faces of the coin, or is the heads face the only thing required? If both, do I just put any value I wanted on the tails face?
why would you do this?
Sorls wrote:
Because he felt like it. You asked that question because you felt like it, therefore there was no reason for you to ask that question. However, it is not unlawful to ask a question.
Well I did my part and sent my Woocoin 😛
Sorls wrote:
Way more interactive than >98% of other webcomics, I think it’s awesome.
I’ve got plenty of criticism for SandW, but lack of originality isn’t one of them.
I am SEVERELY self concious about my drawing ability, and this actually makes me kind of mad….I don’t wanna have to show someone else my cruddy drawing that will either look like a racoon or like a second grader tried to draw Goku, just so that I can see someone elses far superior artwork…
Will the strip be posted anywhere here at any time or is the decryption/Woocoin required to ever see it?
I’ll draw just as bad as the rest of y’all but I’ll post my coin once it’s been accepted, so everyone can feel slightly less self conscious.
Seriously, it takes like 5 minutes in a sketch app.
@ x9comega:
I can almost guarantee that your attempt at a ‘Woocoin’ is better than mine. Do it! What have you got to lose?
In fact, make a bad coin ironically if you want. You wouldn’t be the first! 😉
I don’t know, I’m entirely too lazy for this…despite taking the time to type this comment, which was probably about the same amount of effort. Anyway, I obviously can’t speak for anyone else, but I at least feel like this would sting a bit less if the previous update hadn’t been what it was. Still, Sandra and Woo is a fun free comic, so, whatever. I’ll just check back Thursday for the next one.
We weren’t able to figure out the last thing you heavily encrypted. After, what, 3.5 years?
I used my phone to write an email and then screen draw over the email draft, to give myself an “unfamiliar interface” excuse that’s partly legit (I’m unused to the drawing features on this thing) for my lousy drawing. can I have a comic strip, or did I draw the wrong raccoon, like the Sly devil Iam?
Never thought I’d pay out to dang hackers, but I did.
What timezone?
mooooooooo wrote:
I would assume the timezone Germany is in.
I spent about 10 minutes trying to “solve” this “magic eye puzzle.”
Without success.
Then I scrolled down and saw the rest of the comic.
I was looking forward for today’s comic, but now… just forget it. I’ll come back in few days for the new comic, and leave this one behind
Wait, so the strip won’t be available to everybody after a month? Is it obligatory to draw a woocoin to see the strip?
@ …:
Novil said you could just decrypt it, but I drew a coin
On a semi related note, is ASCII art allowed? I would have preferred to do that to drawing…
MarqFJA87 wrote:
Heads is enough.
Rapiret wrote:
I’m not sure about that yet.
Commentary Ver.2.72 wrote:
ASCII art sounds fine.
@ Novil:
if it was “way too much work why did you do it?
why not the comic be a gif that encrypts as you are reading it?
@ Novil:
you are going to be very busy verifying each woocoin
too bad you can’t automate the sorting of fan art.
@ Kuraimizu:
What? A gif that encrypts as….
no.
Coincidence or not?
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I don’t pay ransom in any form!!! goodby
Timezones check