Hello Glingy!

[N5N3778]

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This information is also in our robots.txt, along with a short message. Let us know if you would like to help out.

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[glingy]

I'm sorry... Can you write that in English? What are those long strings for and whose robots.txt? Can you please explain? To me it looks like three strings in code blocks...

Why is there a linked pastebin? encoded in the second one?

[N5N3778]

for i in range(len(original)):
     out += str(ord(key[i % len(key)]) ^ ord(original[i])) + 'A'

I'm sorry, but we are not at liberty to reveal any more information at this time. We are looking for help if you really want...

[glingy]

My results so far...

That hint above shows that there is a string (a key) and an output which needs to be decoded back to the original. Following the python code, out should be a string of the format "32A43A" or something similar because python does not understand the single quotes as an integer and the ordinal characters (xor'ed) become a string and are appended to an A. None of the strings I have found match that description.

The first contains many line-separated strings of the same length encoded in base64. I have yet to figure out any more on that. There are some numbers, but it is not only numbers and a capital A.

The second contains a link to a Pastebin which, when decoded, yields a voice recording of a long alphanumeric string recorded on 2/9/2018 at 2:48:19 PM using TextAloud IVONA Kimberly22. The same as above. It does not seem to be the encoded string for the second hint. Also, there is a string with many N, U, and L characters (key maybe?)

The third contains a link (double-encoded) to a non-existent paste on paste.fedoraproject.org. Is that a mistake? https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/6jEAFh~LpHWo2JvSgK3Iew

If you cannot give more information, I will continue to search with the information provided.

[N5N3778]

There is not a mistake.

You are still missing some information.

Look harder.

[N5N3778]

There are multiple paths to the first solution.

[N5N3778]

At this point, it appears you are no longer working on this. We would still like to give you the option to refer other GitHub users that you believe are worthy. We will reach out to them and offer them the chance to help us out.

Just to be clear, the invitation has not been revoked if you complete this at a later date.

[glingy]

You're right. I stopped working on it for a while because school came back in a rush... I would recommend nbanmp as another GitHub user who might be able to have fun with this and help you out.

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