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Digg

2006-08-21T20:00:37Z

SteveC:

==Pages that should be digg'ed==

Digg is a helpful little site that allows you to promote a link, assuming it's good enough to be promoted. Two cards can really do with this special treatment, so go, digg...

13th Labour: http://digg.com/gaming_news/CPU_Cycles_Needed_To_Solve_RC5_Puzzle/blog

Billion to one: http://digg.com/general_sciences/Testing_the_Six_Degrees_of_Separation_Hypothesis

Puzzle card symbols

2006-08-10T08:26:06Z

SteveC: /* Cards With Number Strings */ (apparently a mistake in #250)

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols, risk soldiers, dice, number strings, and obscure shapes on them.

==Playing Cards and Large Letters==
Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. All symbols appear on cards with prime numbers. 54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

=== Chart of cards with letters ===

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=211 211]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=083 083]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=151 151]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=019 019]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=079 079]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=109 109]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=073 073]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=003 003]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=005 005]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=007 007]
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This appears to be correct, tho pieces are missing, and it doesnt make an awful lot of sense at the moment.

:'''/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/ECO/MBE/DTH/UND/ERC/LAP/.../'''

The apparent message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. Combed Thunderclap.'''

=== Cards which are part of this collection ===

 {{Card|002|Designer Flakes}} 8 of Spades
 {{Card|003|Earth, Sea, and Moon}} 7 of Clubs
 {{Card|005|Out on a Limb}} 7 of Hearts
 {{Card|007|Aromarama}} 6 of Clubs
 {{Card|011|Revelation}} Q of Clubs
 {{Card|013|Sphinx}} 8 of Diamonds
 {{Card|017|Easy as...}} A of Spades
 {{Card|019|Magic Numbers}} J of Clubs
 {{Card|023|Pack'0'Stars}} K of Spades
 {{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}} 7 of Diamonds
 {{Card|031|St. Ives}} 7 of Spades
 {{Card|037|Muscae Volitantes}} 6 of Diamonds
 {{Card|041|Whipsmart Wordsearch}} 9 of Diamonds
 {{Card|043|Bookworm}} J of Spades
 {{Card|047|Opposites Attract}} 9 of clubs
 {{Card|053|Etaion Schrlu}} K of Diamonds
 {{Card|059|Urban Myths}} Q of Spades
 {{Card|061|Ticket to Ride}} 5 of Clubs
 {{Card|067|Popcorn}} 6 of Hearts
 {{Card|071|Discovery}} 6 of Spades
 {{Card|073|Animal Magic}} 8 of Hearts
 {{Card|079|Strange loops}} 10 of Clubs
 {{Card|083|Pawnbroking}} A of Diamonds
 {{Card|089|Forever Foe}} 8 of Clubs
 {{Card|097|419 Scam}} 5 of Diamonds
 {{Card|101|Petals around the Rose}} 5 spades
 {{Card|103|Sudoku}} 4 of Clubs
 {{Card|107|Blockword}} J of Diamonds
 {{Card|109|Infinite Series}} 9 of Hearts
 {{Card|113|A Capital Idea}} K of Clubs
 {{Card|127|Card House}} 5 of Hearts
 {{Card|131|Detail}} 4 of Diamonds
 {{Card|137|Sub Rosa}} Q of Diamonds
 {{Card|139|This Sentence is False}} 9 of Spades
 {{Card|149|Complex Basic}} Q of Hearts
 {{Card|151|Crazy Talk}} A of Hearts
 {{Card|157|International Superhits}} 3 of Diamonds
 {{Card|163|Domino Dilemma}} 4 of Hearts
 {{Card|167|Circular}} 4 spades
 {{Card|173|The 14-15 Puzzle}} K of Hearts
 {{Card|179|By Another Name}} 10 of Hearts
 {{Card|181|Down,A,B,Up,Up,Right}} 10 of Diamonds
 {{Card|191|My Dear Watson}} 3 of Spades
 {{Card|193|Three Thousand Words}} 3 of Clubs
 {{Card|197|Linguini Junction}} 3 of Hearts
 {{Card|199|Three}} 2 of Clubs
 {{Card|211|Molecular}} A of Clubs
 {{Card|223|Secret Location}} Joker
 {{Card|227|NAND}} 2 of Diamonds
 {{Card|229|Ball Night}} 2 of Hearts '''(needs checking)'''
 {{Card|233|The Earth's Destiny}} 2 of Spades ''(by elimination - it's the only card left)''
 {{Card|239|Persian}} Joker
 {{Card|241|T-L-P}} 10 of Spades
 {{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}} J of Hearts

== Cards With Strange Shapes ==

Note: This list is still in the process of being collated - may not be exhaustive
Please see http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16138 for current discussion

{{Card|29|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}} [[Image:029shape.png]]

{{Card|63|The Next Generation}} [[Image:063shape.png]]

{{Card|94|Prime Rhyme Crime}} [[Image:094shape.png]]

{{Card|96|Castle in The Sky}} [[Image:096shape.png]]

{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}} [[Image:136shape.png]]

{{Card|188|Hybridization}} [[Image:188shape.png]]

{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}} [[Image:191shape.png]]

{{Card|192|Pronunciation}} [[Image:192shape.png]]

{{Card|218|The World}} [[Image:218shape.png]]

{{Card|235|Circuitous}} [[Image:235shape.png]]

{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}} [[Image:237shape.png]]

{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}} [[Image:250shape.png]]

{{Card|253|Sightseeing}} [[Image:253shape.png]]

== Cards With Number Strings ==

{{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}} 1-14443432.5-3 and 3-232.52.51.5-1

{{Card|040|Baby On Board}} 2-11444414412-3 and 1-1144144414432.5-4

{{Card|058|Breaking And Entering}} 2-21122214-4 and 4-23232.534334-1

{{Card|060|Celebration}} 1-414141414144144441-1 and 4-44444444111111111114-3

{{Card|063|The Next Generation}} 3-34-1 and 2-414441141-1

{{Card|090|Also Known As}} 4-4444444443.5-1 and 3-433333334-2

{{Card|094|Prime Rhyme Crime}} 2-4111111441-2 and 1-1114112321-1 (vertical)

{{Card|096|Castle In The Sky}} 1-222233332-4 and 3-44411414441444112.5-4

{{Card|136|Bling Bunny}} 3-2333234-1 and 4-143334-3 (vertical)

{{Card|156|Going Dotty}} 2-111221111112-4 and 2-2232-4 (vertical)

{{Card|188|Hybridization}} 4-11122221412234-2 and 2-21121111221-4

{{Card|191|My Dear Watson}} 2-11444444444411111111444-2 and 1-344411444443-1

{{Card|192|Pronunciation}} 3-3333322333332-4 and 1-444444114411112-1

{{Card|203|Ecliptic}} 4-33223333234-4 and 3-11144144144443-3 (vertical)

{{Card|218|The World}} 2-4444433333323-2 and 1-44334-3

{{Card|222|Instigator}} 4-1414411122-2 and 3-34433333432-4 (vertical)

{{Card|235|Circuitous}} 1-4444444434444444444443-4 and 4-222233332222.5-1

{{Card|236|Swarms}} 4-4333223323-3 and 3-2112223-2

{{Card|237|Roaming Identity}} 3-3333334433334-1 and 2-1222323-2 (vertical)

{{Card|250|Manoeuvers}} 4-3322333333333332-1 and 1-343-2

{{Card|253|Sightseeing}} 1-1111211112-4 and 2-111114441114114-1

== Cards With Risk Pieces ==

Please note, this list is not exhaustive. If anyone has anything to add or change, please feel free. For cards 58 and 60, both the dice and the pieces are obscured. An estimation of the dice values has been made based on what is shown.

{{Card|040|Baby on Board}} 2 Infantry. Red dice: 5, 4, 3. Blue dice: 4, 3. Attacker wins.

{{Card|058|Breaking and Entering}} 1 Cavalry. Red dice: 6, 2/3(?), 1. Blue dice: 4/5/6(?), 4/5/6(?). Winner indeterminable.

{{Card|060|Celebration}} 1 Cavalry. Red dice: 4/5/6(?), 3/5(?), 1. Blue dice: 6, 4. Winner indeterminable.

{{Card|090|Also Known As}} 3 Infantry. Red dice: 4, 4, 3. Blue dice: 6, 3. Attacker and defender lose an army each.

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{{CardCat}}

Talk:Main Page - Anna Heath

2006-08-10T07:55:55Z

SteveC:

'''See: [[Perplex City Wiki:Discussion]] for general discussion of the wiki as a whole.'''

==Announcements section==
Added in the little yellow box at the top; it can be removed as soon as it's no longer timely and resurrected as necessary, and the link placed in the 'utilities' section or something. :D
-[[User:Lhall|Lhall]] 11:29, 11 July 2006 (PDT)

:Nice -- i like it. we can ad <--     --> marks to comment out that box when not in use. [[User:Scott|Scott]]

Is there a planned time to switch back to the normal front page? My asking inherently suggests when I think it should be :) - [[User:SteveC|SteveC]]

Talk:Main Page - Anna Heath

2006-08-10T07:55:07Z

SteveC:

Puzzle card symbols

2006-08-09T16:05:41Z

SteveC: /* Cards With Number Strings */

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols on. It was been speculated on [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11528&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 Unfiction] that these may be a deck order for a solitaire cipher appearing on {{Card|243|Shuffled}} (See: [[Shuffled]]) but this appears to have been discredited. Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. So far, all symbols appear on cards with prime numbers, so this list will reflect that, until proven otherwise.

== Chart of cards with letters ==

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

{| cellpadding=10 border=1
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| Ace
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=211 211]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=083 083]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=151 151]
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| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=113 113]
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=== Other notes ===
* Don't trust the black colouring 100% in the card catalogue - there may be a couple of cards that don't match by that alone - the original card should be re-checked to ensure accuracy of the black colourings.
* Cards aren't necessarily evenly cut down or across the middle of each letter, making calculating possibilities difficult.
* The font used is a simple thick seriffed font.
* The position of the Jokers may not be correct.

== Known letters ==
This appears to be correct, tho pieces are missing, and it doesnt make an awful lot of sense at the moment.

:'''/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/ECO/MBE/DTH/UND/ERC/LAP/.../'''

The apparent message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. Combed Thunderclap.'''

== Cards with symbols ==

 {{Card|002|Designer Flakes}} 8 of Spades
 {{Card|003|Earth, Sea, and Moon}} 7 of Clubs
 {{Card|005|Out on a Limb}} 7 of Hearts
 {{Card|007|Aromarama}} 6 of Clubs
 {{Card|011|Revelation}} Q of Clubs
 {{Card|013|Sphinx}} 8 of Diamonds
 {{Card|017|Easy as...}} A of Spades
 {{Card|019|Magic Numbers}} J of Clubs
 {{Card|023|Pack'0'Stars}} K of Spades
 {{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}} 7 of Diamonds
 {{Card|031|St. Ives}} 7 of Spades
 {{Card|037|Muscae Volitantes}} 6 of Diamonds
 {{Card|041|Whipsmart Wordsearch}} 9 of Diamonds
 {{Card|043|Bookworm}} J of Spades
 {{Card|047|Opposites Attract}} 9 of clubs
 {{Card|053|Etaion Schrlu}} K of Diamonds
 {{Card|059|Urban Myths}} Q of Spades
 {{Card|061|Ticket to Ride}} 5 of Clubs
 {{Card|067|Popcorn}} 6 of Hearts
 {{Card|071|Discovery}} 6 of Spades
 {{Card|073|Animal Magic}} 8 of Hearts
 {{Card|079|Strange loops}} 10 of Clubs
 {{Card|083|Pawnbroking}} A of Diamonds
 {{Card|089|Forever Foe}} 8 of Clubs
 {{Card|097|419 Scam}} 5 of Diamonds
 {{Card|101|Petals around the Rose}} 5 spades
 {{Card|103|Sudoku}} 4 of Clubs
 {{Card|107|Blockword}} J of Diamonds
 {{Card|109|Infinite Series}} 9 of Hearts
 {{Card|113|A Capital Idea}} K of Clubs
 {{Card|127|Card House}} 5 of Hearts
 {{Card|131|Detail}} 4 of Diamonds
 {{Card|137|Sub Rosa}} Q of Diamonds
 {{Card|139|This Sentence is False}} 9 of Spades
 {{Card|149|Complex Basic}} Q of Hearts
 {{Card|151|Crazy Talk}} A of Hearts
 {{Card|157|International Superhits}} 3 of Diamonds
 {{Card|163|Domino Dilemma}} 4 of Hearts
 {{Card|167|Circular}} 4 spades
 {{Card|173|The 14-15 Puzzle}} K of Hearts
 {{Card|179|By Another Name}} 10 of Hearts
 {{Card|181|Down,A,B,Up,Up,Right}} 10 of Diamonds
 {{Card|191|My Dear Watson}} 3 of Spades
 {{Card|193|Three Thousand Words}} 3 of Clubs
 {{Card|197|Linguini Junction}} 3 of Hearts
 {{Card|199|Three}} 2 of Clubs
 {{Card|211|Molecular}} A of Clubs
 {{Card|223|Secret Location}} Joker
 {{Card|227|NAND}} 2 of Diamonds
 {{Card|229|Ball Night}} 2 of Hearts '''(needs checking)'''
 {{Card|233|The Earth's Destiny}} 2 of Spades ''(by elimination - it's the only card left)''
 {{Card|239|Persian}} Joker
 {{Card|241|T-L-P}} 10 of Spades
 {{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}} J of Hearts

== Primes ==
54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

== Cards With Strange Shapes ==

#29: [[Image:029shape.png]]

#63: [[Image:063shape.png]]

#94: [[Image:094shape.png]]

#96: [[Image:096shape.png]]

#136: [[Image:136shape.png]]

#188: [[Image:188shape.png]]

#191: [[Image:191shape.png]]

#192: [[Image:192shape.png]]

#218: [[Image:218shape.png]]

#235: [[Image:235shape.png]]

#237: [[Image:237shape.png]]

#250: [[Image:250shape.png]]

#253: [[Image:253shape.png]]

== Cards With Number Strings ==

#029 1-14443432.5-3 and 3-232.52.51.5-1
#040 2-11444414412-3 and 1-1144144414432.5-4
#058 2-21122214-4 and 4-23232.534334-1
#060 1-414141414144144441-1 and 4-44444444111111111114-3
#063 3-34-1 and 2-414441141-1
#090 4-4444444443.5-1 and 3-433333334-2
#094 2-4111111441-2 and 1-1114112321-1 (vertical)
#096 1-222233332-4 and 3-44411414441444112.5-4
#136 3-2333234-1 and 4-143334-3 (vertical)
#156 2-111221111112-4 and 2-2232-4 (vertical)
#188 4-11122221412234-2 and 2-21121111221-4
#191 2-11444444444411111111444-2 and 1-344411444443-1
#192 3-3333322333332-4 and 1-444444114411112-1
#203 4-33223333234-4 and 3-11144144144443-3 (vertical)
#218 2-4444433333323-2 and 1-44334-3
#222 4-1414411122-2 and 3-34433333432-4 (vertical)
#235 1-4444444434444444444443-4 and 4-222233332222.5-1
#236 4-4333223323-3 and 3-2112223-2
#237 3-3333334433334-1 and 2-1222323-2 (vertical)
#250 4-332233333333332-1 and 1-343-2
#253 1-1111211112-4 and 2-111114441114114-1

== See also ==
* [http://www.kallisti.nildram.co.uk/letters.jpg Current Letters] -- Card images through Wave 3.
* [[Puzzle Card List]]

{{CardCat}}

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Puzzle card symbols

2006-08-09T15:57:40Z

SteveC: /* Cards With Strange Shapes */ - added shape links... hopefully...

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols on. It was been speculated on [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11528&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 Unfiction] that these may be a deck order for a solitaire cipher appearing on {{Card|243|Shuffled}} (See: [[Shuffled]]) but this appears to have been discredited. Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. So far, all symbols appear on cards with prime numbers, so this list will reflect that, until proven otherwise.

== Chart of cards with letters ==

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

{| cellpadding=10 border=1
|-----
|
| Clubs
|
| Diamonds
|
| Hearts
|
| Spades
|-----
| Ace
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=211 211]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=083 083]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=151 151]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=017 017]
|-----
|
|
| I
|
| S
|
| T
|
|-----
| K
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=113 113]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=053 053]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=173 173]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=023 023]
|-----
|
|
| O
|
| L
|
| E
|
|-----
| Q
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=011 011]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=137 137]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=149 149]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=059 059]
|-----
|
|
| T
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| J
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=019 019]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=107 107]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=251 251]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=043 043]
|-----
|
|
| C
|
| U
|
| B
|
|-----
| 10
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=079 079]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=181 181]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=179 179]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=241 241]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| 9
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=047 047]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=041 041]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=109 109]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=139 139]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| P
|
| M
|
|-----
| 8
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=089 089]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=013 013]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=073 073]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=002 002]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| C
|
| O
|
|-----
| 7
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=003 003]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=029 029]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=005 005]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=031 031]
|-----
|
|
| M
|
| B
|
| E
|
|-----
| 6
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=007 007]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=037 037]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=067 067]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=071 071]
|-----
|
|
| D
|
| T
|
| H
|
|-----
| 5
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=061 061]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=097 097]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=127 127]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=101 101]
|-----
|
|
| U
|
| N
|
| D
|
|-----
| 4
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=103 103]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=131 131]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=163 163]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=167 167]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| R
|
| C
|
|-----
| 3
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=193 193]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=157 157]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=197 197]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=191 191]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| A
|
| P
|
|-----
| 2
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=199 199]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=227 227]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=229 229]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=233 233]
|-----
|
|
| -
|
| -
|
| -
|
|-----
| Jkr
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=223 223]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=239 239]
|
|
|
|
|-----
|}

=== Other notes ===
* Don't trust the black colouring 100% in the card catalogue - there may be a couple of cards that don't match by that alone - the original card should be re-checked to ensure accuracy of the black colourings.
* Cards aren't necessarily evenly cut down or across the middle of each letter, making calculating possibilities difficult.
* The font used is a simple thick seriffed font.
* The position of the Jokers may not be correct.

== Known letters ==
This appears to be correct, tho pieces are missing, and it doesnt make an awful lot of sense at the moment.

:'''/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/ECO/MBE/DTH/UND/ERC/LAP/.../'''

The apparent message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. Combed Thunderclap.'''

== Cards with symbols ==

 {{Card|002|Designer Flakes}} 8 of Spades
 {{Card|003|Earth, Sea, and Moon}} 7 of Clubs
 {{Card|005|Out on a Limb}} 7 of Hearts
 {{Card|007|Aromarama}} 6 of Clubs
 {{Card|011|Revelation}} Q of Clubs
 {{Card|013|Sphinx}} 8 of Diamonds
 {{Card|017|Easy as...}} A of Spades
 {{Card|019|Magic Numbers}} J of Clubs
 {{Card|023|Pack'0'Stars}} K of Spades
 {{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}} 7 of Diamonds
 {{Card|031|St. Ives}} 7 of Spades
 {{Card|037|Muscae Volitantes}} 6 of Diamonds
 {{Card|041|Whipsmart Wordsearch}} 9 of Diamonds
 {{Card|043|Bookworm}} J of Spades
 {{Card|047|Opposites Attract}} 9 of clubs
 {{Card|053|Etaion Schrlu}} K of Diamonds
 {{Card|059|Urban Myths}} Q of Spades
 {{Card|061|Ticket to Ride}} 5 of Clubs
 {{Card|067|Popcorn}} 6 of Hearts
 {{Card|071|Discovery}} 6 of Spades
 {{Card|073|Animal Magic}} 8 of Hearts
 {{Card|079|Strange loops}} 10 of Clubs
 {{Card|083|Pawnbroking}} A of Diamonds
 {{Card|089|Forever Foe}} 8 of Clubs
 {{Card|097|419 Scam}} 5 of Diamonds
 {{Card|101|Petals around the Rose}} 5 spades
 {{Card|103|Sudoku}} 4 of Clubs
 {{Card|107|Blockword}} J of Diamonds
 {{Card|109|Infinite Series}} 9 of Hearts
 {{Card|113|A Capital Idea}} K of Clubs
 {{Card|127|Card House}} 5 of Hearts
 {{Card|131|Detail}} 4 of Diamonds
 {{Card|137|Sub Rosa}} Q of Diamonds
 {{Card|139|This Sentence is False}} 9 of Spades
 {{Card|149|Complex Basic}} Q of Hearts
 {{Card|151|Crazy Talk}} A of Hearts
 {{Card|157|International Superhits}} 3 of Diamonds
 {{Card|163|Domino Dilemma}} 4 of Hearts
 {{Card|167|Circular}} 4 spades
 {{Card|173|The 14-15 Puzzle}} K of Hearts
 {{Card|179|By Another Name}} 10 of Hearts
 {{Card|181|Down,A,B,Up,Up,Right}} 10 of Diamonds
 {{Card|191|My Dear Watson}} 3 of Spades
 {{Card|193|Three Thousand Words}} 3 of Clubs
 {{Card|197|Linguini Junction}} 3 of Hearts
 {{Card|199|Three}} 2 of Clubs
 {{Card|211|Molecular}} A of Clubs
 {{Card|223|Secret Location}} Joker
 {{Card|227|NAND}} 2 of Diamonds
 {{Card|229|Ball Night}} 2 of Hearts '''(needs checking)'''
 {{Card|233|The Earth's Destiny}} 2 of Spades ''(by elimination - it's the only card left)''
 {{Card|239|Persian}} Joker
 {{Card|241|T-L-P}} 10 of Spades
 {{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}} J of Hearts

== Primes ==
54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

== Cards With Strange Shapes ==

#29: [[Image:029shape.png]]

#63: [[Image:063shape.png]]

#94: [[Image:094shape.png]]

#96: [[Image:096shape.png]]

#136: [[Image:136shape.png]]

#188: [[Image:188shape.png]]

#191: [[Image:191shape.png]]

#192: [[Image:192shape.png]]

#218: [[Image:218shape.png]]

#235: [[Image:235shape.png]]

#237: [[Image:237shape.png]]

#250: [[Image:250shape.png]]

#253: [[Image:253shape.png]]

== Cards With Number Strings ==

== See also ==
* [http://www.kallisti.nildram.co.uk/letters.jpg Current Letters] -- Card images through Wave 3.
* [[Puzzle Card List]]

{{CardCat}}

Puzzle card symbols

2006-08-09T15:52:52Z

SteveC: /* Cards With Strange Shapes */

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols on. It was been speculated on [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11528&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 Unfiction] that these may be a deck order for a solitaire cipher appearing on {{Card|243|Shuffled}} (See: [[Shuffled]]) but this appears to have been discredited. Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. So far, all symbols appear on cards with prime numbers, so this list will reflect that, until proven otherwise.

== Chart of cards with letters ==

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

{| cellpadding=10 border=1
|-----
|
| Clubs
|
| Diamonds
|
| Hearts
|
| Spades
|-----
| Ace
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=211 211]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=083 083]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=151 151]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=017 017]
|-----
|
|
| I
|
| S
|
| T
|
|-----
| K
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=113 113]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=053 053]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=173 173]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=023 023]
|-----
|
|
| O
|
| L
|
| E
|
|-----
| Q
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=011 011]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=137 137]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=149 149]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=059 059]
|-----
|
|
| T
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| J
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=019 019]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=107 107]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=251 251]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=043 043]
|-----
|
|
| C
|
| U
|
| B
|
|-----
| 10
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=079 079]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=181 181]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=179 179]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=241 241]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| 9
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=047 047]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=041 041]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=109 109]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=139 139]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| P
|
| M
|
|-----
| 8
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=089 089]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=013 013]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=073 073]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=002 002]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| C
|
| O
|
|-----
| 7
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=003 003]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=029 029]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=005 005]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=031 031]
|-----
|
|
| M
|
| B
|
| E
|
|-----
| 6
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=007 007]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=037 037]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=067 067]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=071 071]
|-----
|
|
| D
|
| T
|
| H
|
|-----
| 5
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=061 061]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=097 097]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=127 127]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=101 101]
|-----
|
|
| U
|
| N
|
| D
|
|-----
| 4
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=103 103]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=131 131]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=163 163]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=167 167]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| R
|
| C
|
|-----
| 3
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=193 193]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=157 157]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=197 197]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=191 191]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| A
|
| P
|
|-----
| 2
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=199 199]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=227 227]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=229 229]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=233 233]
|-----
|
|
| -
|
| -
|
| -
|
|-----
| Jkr
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=223 223]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=239 239]
|
|
|
|
|-----
|}

=== Other notes ===
* Don't trust the black colouring 100% in the card catalogue - there may be a couple of cards that don't match by that alone - the original card should be re-checked to ensure accuracy of the black colourings.
* Cards aren't necessarily evenly cut down or across the middle of each letter, making calculating possibilities difficult.
* The font used is a simple thick seriffed font.
* The position of the Jokers may not be correct.

== Known letters ==
This appears to be correct, tho pieces are missing, and it doesnt make an awful lot of sense at the moment.

:'''/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/ECO/MBE/DTH/UND/ERC/LAP/.../'''

The apparent message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. Combed Thunderclap.'''

== Cards with symbols ==

 {{Card|002|Designer Flakes}} 8 of Spades
 {{Card|003|Earth, Sea, and Moon}} 7 of Clubs
 {{Card|005|Out on a Limb}} 7 of Hearts
 {{Card|007|Aromarama}} 6 of Clubs
 {{Card|011|Revelation}} Q of Clubs
 {{Card|013|Sphinx}} 8 of Diamonds
 {{Card|017|Easy as...}} A of Spades
 {{Card|019|Magic Numbers}} J of Clubs
 {{Card|023|Pack'0'Stars}} K of Spades
 {{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}} 7 of Diamonds
 {{Card|031|St. Ives}} 7 of Spades
 {{Card|037|Muscae Volitantes}} 6 of Diamonds
 {{Card|041|Whipsmart Wordsearch}} 9 of Diamonds
 {{Card|043|Bookworm}} J of Spades
 {{Card|047|Opposites Attract}} 9 of clubs
 {{Card|053|Etaion Schrlu}} K of Diamonds
 {{Card|059|Urban Myths}} Q of Spades
 {{Card|061|Ticket to Ride}} 5 of Clubs
 {{Card|067|Popcorn}} 6 of Hearts
 {{Card|071|Discovery}} 6 of Spades
 {{Card|073|Animal Magic}} 8 of Hearts
 {{Card|079|Strange loops}} 10 of Clubs
 {{Card|083|Pawnbroking}} A of Diamonds
 {{Card|089|Forever Foe}} 8 of Clubs
 {{Card|097|419 Scam}} 5 of Diamonds
 {{Card|101|Petals around the Rose}} 5 spades
 {{Card|103|Sudoku}} 4 of Clubs
 {{Card|107|Blockword}} J of Diamonds
 {{Card|109|Infinite Series}} 9 of Hearts
 {{Card|113|A Capital Idea}} K of Clubs
 {{Card|127|Card House}} 5 of Hearts
 {{Card|131|Detail}} 4 of Diamonds
 {{Card|137|Sub Rosa}} Q of Diamonds
 {{Card|139|This Sentence is False}} 9 of Spades
 {{Card|149|Complex Basic}} Q of Hearts
 {{Card|151|Crazy Talk}} A of Hearts
 {{Card|157|International Superhits}} 3 of Diamonds
 {{Card|163|Domino Dilemma}} 4 of Hearts
 {{Card|167|Circular}} 4 spades
 {{Card|173|The 14-15 Puzzle}} K of Hearts
 {{Card|179|By Another Name}} 10 of Hearts
 {{Card|181|Down,A,B,Up,Up,Right}} 10 of Diamonds
 {{Card|191|My Dear Watson}} 3 of Spades
 {{Card|193|Three Thousand Words}} 3 of Clubs
 {{Card|197|Linguini Junction}} 3 of Hearts
 {{Card|199|Three}} 2 of Clubs
 {{Card|211|Molecular}} A of Clubs
 {{Card|223|Secret Location}} Joker
 {{Card|227|NAND}} 2 of Diamonds
 {{Card|229|Ball Night}} 2 of Hearts '''(needs checking)'''
 {{Card|233|The Earth's Destiny}} 2 of Spades ''(by elimination - it's the only card left)''
 {{Card|239|Persian}} Joker
 {{Card|241|T-L-P}} 10 of Spades
 {{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}} J of Hearts

== Primes ==
54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

== Cards With Strange Shapes ==

#29:

#63:

#94:

#96:

#136:

#188:

#191:

#192:

#218:

#235:

#237:

#250:

#253:

== Cards With Number Strings ==

== See also ==
* [http://www.kallisti.nildram.co.uk/letters.jpg Current Letters] -- Card images through Wave 3.
* [[Puzzle Card List]]

{{CardCat}}

Puzzle card symbols

2006-08-09T15:50:37Z

SteveC: added a couple of sections that are needed!

== General ==
Some of the [[Puzzle Cards]] have faint playing card symbols on. It was been speculated on [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11528&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 Unfiction] that these may be a deck order for a solitaire cipher appearing on {{Card|243|Shuffled}} (See: [[Shuffled]]) but this appears to have been discredited. Each card with a playing symbol also has part of a letter faintly printed over the card in a slab-serif font, and it's anticipated that arranging all the playing symbol cards in order will eventually depict the whole message. So far, all symbols appear on cards with prime numbers, so this list will reflect that, until proven otherwise.

== Chart of cards with letters ==

Note the groupings of playing card symbols goes Club-Diamond-Heart-Spade, from Ace to 2 (ace high), forming 13 sets of 3 letters.

[[Image:Letters-on-the-cards-thumb.jpg|right]]

{| cellpadding=10 border=1
|-----
|
| Clubs
|
| Diamonds
|
| Hearts
|
| Spades
|-----
| Ace
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=211 211]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=083 083]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=151 151]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=017 017]
|-----
|
|
| I
|
| S
|
| T
|
|-----
| K
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=113 113]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=053 053]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=173 173]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=023 023]
|-----
|
|
| O
|
| L
|
| E
|
|-----
| Q
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=011 011]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=137 137]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=149 149]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=059 059]
|-----
|
|
| T
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| J
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=019 019]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=107 107]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=251 251]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=043 043]
|-----
|
|
| C
|
| U
|
| B
|
|-----
| 10
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=079 079]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=181 181]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=179 179]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=241 241]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| H
|
| E
|
|-----
| 9
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=047 047]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=041 041]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=109 109]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=139 139]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| P
|
| M
|
|-----
| 8
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=089 089]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=013 013]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=073 073]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=002 002]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| C
|
| O
|
|-----
| 7
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=003 003]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=029 029]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=005 005]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=031 031]
|-----
|
|
| M
|
| B
|
| E
|
|-----
| 6
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=007 007]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=037 037]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=067 067]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=071 071]
|-----
|
|
| D
|
| T
|
| H
|
|-----
| 5
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=061 061]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=097 097]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=127 127]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=101 101]
|-----
|
|
| U
|
| N
|
| D
|
|-----
| 4
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=103 103]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=131 131]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=163 163]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=167 167]
|-----
|
|
| E
|
| R
|
| C
|
|-----
| 3
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=193 193]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=157 157]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=197 197]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=191 191]
|-----
|
|
| L
|
| A
|
| P
|
|-----
| 2
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=199 199]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=227 227]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=229 229]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=233 233]
|-----
|
|
| -
|
| -
|
| -
|
|-----
| Jkr
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=223 223]
|
| [http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=239 239]
|
|
|
|
|-----
|}

=== Other notes ===
* Don't trust the black colouring 100% in the card catalogue - there may be a couple of cards that don't match by that alone - the original card should be re-checked to ensure accuracy of the black colourings.
* Cards aren't necessarily evenly cut down or across the middle of each letter, making calculating possibilities difficult.
* The font used is a simple thick seriffed font.
* The position of the Jokers may not be correct.

== Known letters ==
This appears to be correct, tho pieces are missing, and it doesnt make an awful lot of sense at the moment.

:'''/IST/OLE/THE/CUB/EHE/LPM/ECO/MBE/DTH/UND/ERC/LAP/.../'''

The apparent message reads:
:'''I stole [[the Cube]]. Help me. Combed Thunderclap.'''

== Cards with symbols ==

 {{Card|002|Designer Flakes}} 8 of Spades
 {{Card|003|Earth, Sea, and Moon}} 7 of Clubs
 {{Card|005|Out on a Limb}} 7 of Hearts
 {{Card|007|Aromarama}} 6 of Clubs
 {{Card|011|Revelation}} Q of Clubs
 {{Card|013|Sphinx}} 8 of Diamonds
 {{Card|017|Easy as...}} A of Spades
 {{Card|019|Magic Numbers}} J of Clubs
 {{Card|023|Pack'0'Stars}} K of Spades
 {{Card|029|Beware the Puzzle Monsters}} 7 of Diamonds
 {{Card|031|St. Ives}} 7 of Spades
 {{Card|037|Muscae Volitantes}} 6 of Diamonds
 {{Card|041|Whipsmart Wordsearch}} 9 of Diamonds
 {{Card|043|Bookworm}} J of Spades
 {{Card|047|Opposites Attract}} 9 of clubs
 {{Card|053|Etaion Schrlu}} K of Diamonds
 {{Card|059|Urban Myths}} Q of Spades
 {{Card|061|Ticket to Ride}} 5 of Clubs
 {{Card|067|Popcorn}} 6 of Hearts
 {{Card|071|Discovery}} 6 of Spades
 {{Card|073|Animal Magic}} 8 of Hearts
 {{Card|079|Strange loops}} 10 of Clubs
 {{Card|083|Pawnbroking}} A of Diamonds
 {{Card|089|Forever Foe}} 8 of Clubs
 {{Card|097|419 Scam}} 5 of Diamonds
 {{Card|101|Petals around the Rose}} 5 spades
 {{Card|103|Sudoku}} 4 of Clubs
 {{Card|107|Blockword}} J of Diamonds
 {{Card|109|Infinite Series}} 9 of Hearts
 {{Card|113|A Capital Idea}} K of Clubs
 {{Card|127|Card House}} 5 of Hearts
 {{Card|131|Detail}} 4 of Diamonds
 {{Card|137|Sub Rosa}} Q of Diamonds
 {{Card|139|This Sentence is False}} 9 of Spades
 {{Card|149|Complex Basic}} Q of Hearts
 {{Card|151|Crazy Talk}} A of Hearts
 {{Card|157|International Superhits}} 3 of Diamonds
 {{Card|163|Domino Dilemma}} 4 of Hearts
 {{Card|167|Circular}} 4 spades
 {{Card|173|The 14-15 Puzzle}} K of Hearts
 {{Card|179|By Another Name}} 10 of Hearts
 {{Card|181|Down,A,B,Up,Up,Right}} 10 of Diamonds
 {{Card|191|My Dear Watson}} 3 of Spades
 {{Card|193|Three Thousand Words}} 3 of Clubs
 {{Card|197|Linguini Junction}} 3 of Hearts
 {{Card|199|Three}} 2 of Clubs
 {{Card|211|Molecular}} A of Clubs
 {{Card|223|Secret Location}} Joker
 {{Card|227|NAND}} 2 of Diamonds
 {{Card|229|Ball Night}} 2 of Hearts '''(needs checking)'''
 {{Card|233|The Earth's Destiny}} 2 of Spades ''(by elimination - it's the only card left)''
 {{Card|239|Persian}} Joker
 {{Card|241|T-L-P}} 10 of Spades
 {{Card|251|The Thirteenth Labour}} J of Hearts

== Primes ==
54 Prime numbers under 256 are as follows:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229 233 239 241 251

== Cards With Strange Shapes ==

== Cards With Number Strings ==

== See also ==
* [http://www.kallisti.nildram.co.uk/letters.jpg Current Letters] -- Card images through Wave 3.
* [[Puzzle Card List]]

{{CardCat}}

Backdoor

2006-07-05T14:22:06Z

SteveC: /* Configurations */ changes to "end end" configs

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
19A ZO-MO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
20A ZO-MO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-RO-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

Other than the linked commands, we also get these two errors...

unable: "Unable to access file"
unread: "Unable to get read handle"

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with two '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with four '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 3
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 4
| unread || unread || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch zone zone switch - / - pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, switch, pwrite, rotate, switch, pread, cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

====Config 20: Nelis Nuclear Battery====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - C/ - - S - R/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message20.JPG]]

====Config 21: Krsa algorithm====

This no longer works and actually now goes to [[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Config_25:_Audio Config 25]]

'''Configuration:''' end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

'''Command Path:''' end-end-mount-copy-zone-rotate-cache

<pre>
Notes:

To make this more precise, let Krsa be an RSA generator with associated security
parameter k and let Keys be the set of all moduli N that have positive probability
to be outbut by Krsa. Let Hash be a family of functions whose key-space is Keys and
such that HashN : { 0, 1}

-> Z

n for every N e Keys. Let DS = (Krsa, Sign, VG) be the digital signature scheme whose
signing and verifying algorithms are as follows:
Algorithm Sign N,p,qp,d (M)
y <- Hashn (M)
x <- yd mod N
Return x
Algorithm VGn,e (M,x)
y <- Hashn (M)
y

<- xe mod N
If y=y

then return 1 else return 0
</pre>

====Config 22: Audio====

This no longer works and actually now goes to [[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Config_25:_Audio Config 25]]

'''Configuration:''' end end zone mount -- / -- -- -- -- copy / -- -- -- -- rotate / -- -- -- -- rotate / -- -- -- -- cache

'''Command Path:''' end-end-zone-mount-copy-rotate-rotate-cache

The audio is streaming, but [[Media:Backdoor_audio.mp3|here is a conversion into MP3 format]].

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
===== Transcription =====
If he dies, you realise that's it. You can do what you like to me - I don't care about '''me'''.

Someone in my block got beaten up the other night. He isn't a violent guy; he's a calligrapher. But he just got attacked well f ... nothing basically. Well I think it was random, but I don't think I believe in random any more.
Was it you?

Are you trying to scare me? You don't need to so just ... stop it.

I did what you wanted anyway. Last night ...

I worked until I was the only one left in the office. Must have been about 11 when this delivery guy turned up with a trolley full of boxes. And he ''did'' look a bit surprised to see me there.
These two big boxes were for us, so I signed for them and went next door to grab Angelica so she could open the stores.

Anyway, the boxes were really heavy, so the delivery guy wheeled the trolley into the stores and dropped them off there. Then I saw him slide one of our cases under the trolley; when he moved the trolley, it wasn't there anymore. It was quick but I'm sure he swiped something. Then he left, and Angelica locked the door.

I would have followed him ... well, probably ... but Angelica started talking to me about my research and I couldn't just rush off. I saw him go to the end of the corridor ... to the elevator, and he hit the down button. There's only the basement under us, but I think there might be passageways for internal mail and things. I honestly don't know. And I'm not going down there in the middle of the night, so don't ask. No matter what you threaten me with.

Ummm the delivery guy was about 6 foot, white, short dark hair. I haven't seen him before.

Keep an eye out, will you?
|}

[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]

====Config 23: Audio====

This no longer works and actually now goes to [[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Config_25:_Audio Config 25]]

'''Configuration:''' END END ZONE MOUNT CACHE / - - - - ROTATE

'''Command Path:''' end-end-zone-mount-rotate-cache

The audio is streaming, but [[Media:Backdoor_audio_23.mp3|here is a conversion into MP3 format]].

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
===== Transcription =====
So this is it. Can't say I'm not glad it's over but, well, one day maybe you can tell me what this was all about.
I mean, I read the papers - police raids on subway stations - sounds like your kind of thing.

We've had a few more deliveries come in since January, but still no sign of the mystery man. It's been a different courier each time, and they've - they've all looked pretty innocent. The [[Viendenbourg]] messages are still going backwards and forwards.

I appreciate what you've done for my dad, but ... I've done my bit. That's it. That was the deal. You can go digging around in the tunnels if you like but don't expect me to do any more of your dirty work. You told me to stop, so I'm stopping.

Don't ever tell my dad about this.

Over and out.
|}

[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]

====Config 24: To-Do list====

This no longer works and actually now goes to [[http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor#Config_25:_Audio Config 25]]

'''Configuration:''' - - - - / - - - - - / - - - CACHE - / - - MOUNT ROTATE - / END END ZONE ROTATE -

'''Command Path:''' end-end-zone-mount-rotate-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message22.JPG]]

====Config 25: Audio====

'''Configuration:''' END END MOUNT - - / - - CACHE COPY - / - - ROTATE ZONE -

'''Command Path:''' end-end-mount-copy-zone-rotate-cache

The audio is streaming, but [[Media:Backdoor_audio_25.mp3|here is a conversion into MP3 format]].

{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
===== Transcription =====
Look this is getting seriously dodgy.

Last week, [[Lucas Bazeries|Lucas]] completely cut me out of a meeting, and [[Mansoor]] has been ripping into my white paper and...

I'm sure it's not professional, it's personal. They know what we're up to, I swear.
No I don't, I don't know anything. I'm losing it. Please, I can't be that important. You could get someone else.

The whole place is hutting down over [[Solstice Gambol|Solstice]]. You...you could get someone to break in here and I don't know...isotope tag one of the packages and track it you probably do that all the time...what do you need me for?

Well, happy holidays.
|}

[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-05T12:17:35Z

SteveC: /* Config 16: Big Nothing */ - was a wrong definition...

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
19A ZO-MO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
20A ZO-MO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-RO-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

Other than the linked commands, we also get these two errors...

unable: "Unable to access file"
unread: "Unable to get read handle"

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with two '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with four '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 3
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 4
| unread || unread || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch zone zone switch - / - pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, switch, pwrite, rotate, switch, pread, cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

====Config 20: Nelis Nuclear Battery====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - C/ - - S - R/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message20.JPG]]

====Config 21: Krsa algorithm====

'''Configuration:''' end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

'''Command Path:''' end-end-mount-copy-zone-rotate-cache

<pre>
Notes:

To make this more precise, let Krsa be an RSA generator with associated security
parameter k and let Keys be the set of all moduli N that have positive probability
to be outbut by Krsa. Let Hash be a family of functions whose key-space is Keys and
such that HashN : { 0, 1}

-> Z

n for every N e Keys. Let DS = (Krsa, Sign, VG) be the digital signature scheme whose
signing and verifying algorithms are as follows:
Algorithm Sign N,p,qp,d (M)
y <- Hashn (M)
x <- yd mod N
Return x
Algorithm VGn,e (M,x)
y <- Hashn (M)
y

<- xe mod N
If y=y

then return 1 else return 0
</pre>

====Config 22: Audio====

'''Configuration:''' end end zone mount -- / -- -- -- -- copy / -- -- -- -- rotate / -- -- -- -- rotate / -- -- -- -- cache

'''Command Path:''' end-end-zone-mount-copy-rotate-rotate-cache

The audio is streaming, but [[Media:Backdoor_audio.mp3|here is a conversion into MP3 format]].

[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]

====Config 23: Audio====

'''Configuration:''' END END ZONE MOUNT CACHE / - - - - ROTATE

'''Command Path:''' end-end-zone-mount-rotate-cache

The audio is streaming, but [[Media:Backdoor_audio_23.mp3|here is a conversion into MP3 format]].

'''Transcription:'''
{| border="0" cellpadding="10" width="70%" style="border: 2px solid #ddddff; background: #f3f3ff"
|
So this is it. Can't say I'm not glad it's over but, well, one day maybe you can tell me what this was all about.
I mean, I read the papers - police raids on subway stations - sounds like your kind of thing.

We've had a few more deliveries come in since January, but still no sign of the mystery man. It's been a different courier each time, and they've - they've all looked pretty innocent. The [[Viendenbourg]] messages are still going backwards and forwards.

I appreciate what you've done for my dad, but ... I've done my bit. That's it. That was the deal. You can go digging around in the tunnels if you like but don't expect me to do any more of your dirty work. You told me to stop, so I'm stopping.

Don't ever tell my dad about this.

Over and out.
|}

[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]

====Config 24: To-Do list====

'''Configuration:''' - - - - / - - - - - / - - - CACHE - / - - MOUNT ROTATE - / END END ZONE ROTATE -

'''Command Path:''' end-end-zone-mount-rotate-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message22.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

File:Backdoor message22.JPG

2006-07-05T09:38:50Z

SteveC:

Backdoor

2006-07-05T09:38:30Z

SteveC: /* Configurations */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
19A ZO-MO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
20A ZO-MO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-RO-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

Other than the linked commands, we also get these two errors...

unable: "Unable to access file"
unread: "Unable to get read handle"

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with two '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with four '''zone''' commands''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 3
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 4
| unread || unread || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

====Config 20: Nelis Nuclear Battery====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - C/ - - S - R/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message20.JPG]]

====Config 21: Krsa algorithm====

'''Configuration:''' end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

'''Command Path:''' end-end-mount-copy-zone-rotate-cache

<pre>
Notes:

To make this more precise, let Krsa be an RSA generator with associated security
parameter k and let Keys be the set of all moduli N that have positive probability
to be outbut by Krsa. Let Hash be a family of functions whose key-space is Keys and
such that HashN : { 0, 1}

-> Z

n for every N e Keys. Let DS = (Krsa, Sign, VG) be the digital signature scheme whose
signing and verifying algorithms are as follows:
Algorithm Sign N,p,qp,d (M)
y <- Hashn (M)
x <- yd mod N
Return x
Algorithm VGn,e (M,x)
y <- Hashn (M)
y

<- xe mod N
If y=y

then return 1 else return 0
</pre>

====Config 22: Audio====

'''Configuration:''' end end zone mount -- / -- -- -- -- copy / -- -- -- -- rotate / -- -- -- -- rotate / -- -- -- -- cache

'''Command Path:''' end-end-zone-mount-copy-rotate-rotate-cache

The audio is streaming, but [[Media:Backdoor_audio.mp3|here is a conversion into MP3 format]].

[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]

====Config 23: Audio====

'''Configuration:''' END END ZONE MOUNT CACHE / - - - - ROTATE

'''Command Path:''' end-end-zone-mount-rotate-cache

The audio is streaming

[[Image:Backdoor_message21.JPG]]

====Config 24: To-Do list====

'''Configuration:''' - - - - / - - - - - / - - - CACHE - / - - MOUNT ROTATE - / END END ZONE ROTATE -

'''Command Path:''' end-end-zone-mount-rotate-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message22.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T09:40:03Z

SteveC: /* Command/File Mapping */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

Other than the linked commands, we also get these two errors...

unable: "Unable to access file"
unread: "Unable to get read handle"

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with two '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 3
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|-
! 4
| unread || unread || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || unread || unread
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

====Config 20: Nelis Nuclear Battery====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - C/ - - S - R/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message20.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T09:11:15Z

SteveC: /* Command/File Mapping */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with two '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| || || || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 2
| || || || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 3
| unread || || || ||
|-
! 4
| unread || || || ||
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

====Config 20: Nelis Nuclear Battery====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - C/ - - S - R/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message20.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T09:05:25Z

SteveC: /* Command/File Mapping */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_4:_Laser | Laser ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_5:_Sphere | Sphere ]] || unable || [[Backdoor#Config_15:_Atomic_Clock|Clock]] || [[Backdoor#Config_14:_Magnet_current_regulators|MagReg]]
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

====Config 20: Nelis Nuclear Battery====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - C/ - - S - R/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message20.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T08:46:19Z

SteveC: /* Config 19: Nelis Nuclear Battery */ oops

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] ||
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 3
| || || || ||
|-
! 4
| || || || ||
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

====Config 20: Nelis Nuclear Battery====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - C/ - - S - R/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message20.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

File:Backdoor message20.JPG

2006-07-04T08:45:25Z

SteveC:

Backdoor

2006-07-04T08:45:05Z

SteveC: /* Configurations */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] ||
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 3
| || || || ||
|-
! 4
| || || || ||
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

====Config 19: Nelis Nuclear Battery====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - C/ - - S - R/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message20.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T08:44:05Z

SteveC: /* Command/File Mapping */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || unread
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_19:_Tajison_PW_Accelerator | Tajison]]
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_20:_Nelis_Nuclear_Battery | Battery]]

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] ||
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 3
| || || || ||
|-
! 4
| || || || ||
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T08:33:03Z

SteveC: /* Command/File Mapping */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] ||
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] ||
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] ||

|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
[[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] ||
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 3
| || || || ||
|-
! 4
| || || || ||
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T08:28:01Z

SteveC: /* Command/File Mapping */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
|-
! 3
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || ||
|-
! 4
|| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] || ||
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 3
| || || || ||
|-
! 4
| || || || ||
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T08:20:58Z

SteveC: /* Command/File Mapping */ I'm crap at editing the wiki - lots of small changes :)

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
|-
! 3
|| || || || ||
|-
! 4
|| || || || ||
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 3
| || || || ||
|-
! 4
| || || || ||
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T08:17:47Z

SteveC: /* Command/File Mapping */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="6" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 0
| x || x || x || x || x
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="6" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 0
|| || || || ||
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
|-
! 3
|| || || || ||
|-
! 4
|| || || || ||
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="6" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 0
| || || || ||
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 3
| || || || ||
|-
! 4
| || || || ||
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

Backdoor

2006-07-04T08:13:20Z

SteveC: /* Command/File Mapping */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="6" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 0
| x || x || x || x || x
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| x || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="6" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 0
|| || || || ||
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]] ||
|-
! 3
|| || || || ||
|-
! 4
|| || || || ||
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="6" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 0
| || || || ||
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]] || ||
|-
! 3
| || || || ||
|-
! 4
| || || || ||
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

File:Backdoor message19.JPG

2006-07-04T08:03:58Z

SteveC:

Backdoor

2006-07-04T08:02:02Z

SteveC: /* Configurations */

==Summary==

After discovering that [[V]] called someone at the [[Academy]]'s [[Crypto|Crypto Department]], [[Caine]] heads over to Crypto to investigate. He runs into his friend [[Neville Clark]], who is [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/dolor_sit_amet.html talkative], if obfuscating. The Cube Hunters entice Nev into sharing more information by giving him a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracker.html puzzle], designed by [[User:jbd|jbd]], to solve. Nev takes the bait, and gives us a [http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html backdoor] that leads to a gridded file system.

Dragging the commands onto the grid to create various configurations yields a series of log snippets. Some of the logs resemble the [[Perplex City Errorlogs]] that were found before the [[puzzle cards]] were released.

The interface can be accessed at the following URL:

http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

As of 17:08, 3 July 2006 (PDT), the puzzle is still being worked on. Join us in [irc://irc.chat-solutions.org:6667/#syzygy #syzygy], or see the discussion on the [[Talk:Backdoor|Talk]] page or at [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15627&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Unforums].

==Commands==

Through the combined work of '''jalapenodude''', '''pelrun''', and [[User:jbd|jbd]], #syzygy has determined that the commands appear to work as follows.

The program pointer starts in upper left corner. It moves through the grid one space at a time, as determined by the command in that space.

Generally, the pointer moves in the following directions when it encounters each command. Some exceptions may occur.

<pre>
popen - east
pread - west
mount - se
pwrite - e
switch - se (Are you sure, goes NE on config 5 below?)
copy - s
flush - s
</pre>

All of these can go funny in certain circumstances, especially when next to an edge where the next command would normally jump off the grid.

'''rotate''' does something different depending on where it is executed, but also (sometimes?) where it comes from. Here are some directions that occur:
<pre><nowiki>
e e e e s
s ne n n s
e n ne n s
ne n ne n s
ne n ne n n
</nowiki></pre>

However, it is possible for r3c5 to go north if entered from the west, for example.

The same goes for '''zone''':
<pre><nowiki>
e e e w s
s w w n n
e e e n w
n w w n n
n w w n n
</nowiki></pre>

'''End''' ends execution whenever it gets hit on a specific error message. It is very good for testing where the code is going. '''Cache''' seems to only work as an end point. '''Run''' can go anywhere that the program pointer isn't reaching.

A '''configuration''' is a set of commands placed on the grid so that the grid is valid and a log file is retrieved. The '''command path''' is the actual path that the pointer takes through the grid configuration. Different configurations may break down into the same command path.

Configurations and command paths start with ZO-MO, and usually end with either CACHE or FLUSH.

===Full Command Path List===

The first two numbers are the resulting configuration, the letter after is the variation, and the string is the command path, with each instruction cut to two letters in length. The list is alphabetized based on operation name, as a reference service. Please be sure to also place them above with their respective results, and to sort them in properly when added.

08B ZO-MO-CO-PR-RO-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
06A ZO-MO-CO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
01B ZO-MO-CO-RO-RO-RO-RO-RO-ZO-CA
03C ZO-MO-MO-SW-RO-CA
02B ZO-MO-PO-RO-PW-CA
02A ZO-MO-PO-RO-RO-RO-CA
03A ZO-MO-PO-RO-SW-CA
01A ZO-MO-PO-ZO-RO-RO-CA
13A ZO-MO-PR-PR-CO-CO-PW-RO-SW-SW-RO-CA
11A ZO-MO-PR-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
08A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-RO-CA
09A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
10A ZO-MO-PR-SW-SW-SW-RO-RO-CA
07A ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-FL-ZO-CA
06B ZO-MO-PW-RO-SW-RO-FL
02C ZO-MO-RO-CA
03B ZO-MO-SW-RO-CA
18A ZO-MO-SW-SW-ZO-ZO-ZO-PR-CA
12A ZO-MO-ZO-CO-PW-SW-RO-RO-SW-CA
04A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-RO-RO-PW-RO-CA
05A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-CO-CO-CO-SW-RO-PW-RO-CA
16A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-PR-CA
15A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-CA
14A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-SW-SW-SW-RO-SW-RO-CA
17A ZO-MO-ZO-ZO-ZO-PW-RO-SW-CA

===Command/File Mapping===

The number of times the '''zone''', '''switch''', and '''rotate''' commands appears in a command path determines which file is displayed.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with only the starting '''zone''' command''
!
! !! colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4
|-
! rowspan="6" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 0
| x || x || x || x || x
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 3
| [[Backdoor#Config_2:_Approaching_the_Master | master]] || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_8:_Kiteway_disrupting_the_department | Suspic.]] || [[Backdoor#Config_9:_Project_Data | Header]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|-
! 4
| x || [[Backdoor#Config_3:_Neuro_Scanner | TNI]] || [[Backdoor#Config_13:_Physics_simulator | Yorke]] || [[Backdoor#Config_10:_Nanoscale_imager | NanoImg]] || [[Backdoor#Config_11:_Reynolds_ioniser | Ioniser]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with one '''zone''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="3" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2
|-
! rowspan="3" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]]
|-
! 2
| [[Backdoor#Config_1:_Smart_Dust_Cameras | Camera]] || [[Backdoor#Config_7:_Coffee | Coffee]] || [[Backdoor#Config_12:_Noise_control_system | Noise Control ]]
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"
|+''Configurations with three '''zones''' (plus the starting zone)''
!
! !! colspan="3" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''switch'''
|-
! !! !! 0 !! 1 !! 2
|-
! rowspan="3" style="background:#ffdead;" | '''rotate'''
|-
! 1
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]]
|-
! 2
| unread || [[Backdoor#Config_17:_Nuclear_decay_RNG | RNG]] || [[Backdoor#Config_18:_WHISK_array | WHISK]]
|}

==Configurations==

Here are the various configurations and logs that have been discovered.

====Config 1: Smart Dust Cameras====
'''Configuration:''' zone, mount, run, rotate, rotate/ - - popen, zone, cache

'''Command path:''' zone, mount, popen, zone, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount - rotate rotate / run - copy rotate rotate / - - rotate cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, rotate, zone, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F 
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D 
 
DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message.jpg]]

====Config 2: Approaching the Master====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run rotate rotate/ - - popen rotate cache/ - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, rotate, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run pwrite cache/ - - popen rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, pwrite, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run cache -/ - - rotate - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>Approached the Master today about begining on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, 'My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work.' Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message2.jpg]]

====Config 3: Neuro Scanner====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch -/ - - popen rotate cache / - - - - -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, popen, rotate, switch, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - switch cache -/ - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount run - -/ - - mount - -/ - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, mount, switch, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W 
 
DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new [[Cognivia]] prototype.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message3.jpg]]

====Config 4: Laser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- –/copy zone zone cache --/copy pwrite rotate -- --/copy rotate -- -- --/rotate -- -- -- --

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, rotate, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:''' 
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A 
 
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T 
 
DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spaciotemporal accuracy.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message4.png]]

====Config 5: Sphere====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run -- / copy zone zone cache - / copy pwrite rotate -- / copy rotate --- / switch ----

'''Command Path:''' zone mount, zone, zone, copy, copy, copy, switch, rotate, pwrite, rotate, cache

'''Text:'''
<blockquote>CRYPTO PARTS REF: 3141PU-1M 
EXTERNAL REF: OUF12M 
 
DESCRIPTION: Physics/Baker Spherical Magnetic Containment field; interfaced with dedicated fibre network. Tested at 120% maximum tesla strength to ensure no field leakage.</blockquote>

'''Image:'''

[[Image:Backdoor message5.JPG]]

====Config 6: Gatehouse 24====

''Configuration:''' Zone Mount Run -- -- / -- -- Copy Switch Flush / -- -- Pwrite Rotate Rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

''Alternate:'' zone mount run switch flush / ---- ---- pwrite rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, rotate, flush

When this configuration is run, a message '''Operation in progress''' appears. The screen then distorts and wavers. Finally, a log appears. Discussion on Unforums suggests that the logs may rotate, or appear randomly.

=====Log 1=====
'''[[Helen Carrick]] and [[Idola Friedberg]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 143805 +000000
:: start 143805 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { friedberg, i {119yr} }

You really said that [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { carrick, h {624yr} }

I was hungry [!] I'm not diplomatic when I'm starving [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

FRIEDBERG, I

I bet you fifty lecks your stuff is wiped when you get back [.]

// preliminary review complete

CARRICK, H

Hah [,] I'd like to see him even try [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 2=====
'''[[Camden Porta]] and [[Lucas Bazeries]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 055814 +000000
:: start 061055 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { porta, c {112yr} }

Where have you been [?]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { bazeries, l {520yr} }

So I'm a little late [.] Relax [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 45% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

PORTA, C

We have to hurry and get this thing done [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

Is he here yet [?]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

I think so [.] Let's hurry [.]

// preliminary review complete

BAZERIES, L

I hope there's coffee [.]

// preliminary review complete

PORTA, C

Focus on the project [,] dunderhead [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

=====Log 3=====
'''[[Rowan Ashford]] and [[Mark Wooster]]'''
<pre>
[ GATEHOUSE 24 ]

:: start 192355 +000000
:: start 192401 +000000
:: archive location { dev 7 }
:: index { yes }
:: retention { 9 }
:: processing time { 0.53 }
::

A

// labeled A;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { ashford, r {737yr} }

Hey [,] wait up [.]

// preliminary review complete

B

// labeled B;
// triangulated location mapped;
// passive badge { present }
// badge query { wooster, m {019yr} }

Oh [,] sorry [.] Hard meeting today [.]

// preliminary review complete
// 23% positive emotional state
// cross reference surveillance footage

{ extrapolated: badge {line 16} extracted }

{ gatekeeper system 24;
active badge interrogated, passed }

ASHFORD, R

Do you ever wonder [...]

// preliminary review complete

WOOSTER, M

Don't say it [.]

// preliminary review complete

ASHFORD, R

I know [,] I know [.] No place is safe [.]

// preliminary review complete

[ LOG EXCERPT ENDS ]
</pre>

====Config 7: Coffee====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount run switch - / - - pwrite rotate flush / - - - cache zone

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pwrite, rotate, switch, flush, zone, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message7.JPG]]

====Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch cache - / - - - rotate -

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, swtich, rotate, cache

'''Alternate Configuration:''' zone mount switch - - / run rotate copy switch cache / - rotate pread - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, copy, pread, rotate, rotate, switch, switch, rotate, cache

<pre>To: 55321801

FROM: MANSOOR H.

Kiteway's programs are disrupting the entire department. Breeding hostility
and distrust among amicable colleagues. The man doesn't belong here anymore,
why can't he keep his damned pet projects in his own office? Crypto is mine
now, not his.

Well, here are the metrics to show he's not minding his own business.

Number of times Kiteway has visited dept. offices this year: 78

And in 268: 129

And in 267: 23

Dept. suspicion level on the Howe-Panntonin Index: 8.8

And in 268: 7.3

And in 267: 4.5

Suspect the man has his own agenda and isn't sharing with the proper channels,
for example me and you. Suspect he is subverting the time and resources of my
faculty without consulting me ahead of time. Behaving as though he can't trust
his own senior fellows. Ridiculous. How long must we put up with this childish
rigmarole?</pre>

====Config 9: Project Data====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - - / - - - switch cache / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Project_Data.JPG]]

====Config 10: Nanoscale imager====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / - switch pread - - / - - switch - cache / - - - switch rotate / - - - - rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message8.JPG]]

====Config 11: Reynolds ioniser====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount - - - / switch pread pread - - / - switch - - - /- - switch switch cache / - - - rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone, mount, pread, pread, switch, switch, switch, rotate, switch, rotate, cache

[[Image:Backdoor message9.JPG]]

====Config 12: Noise control system====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / -- copy zone switch -- / -- pwrite switch rotate cache / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-copy-pwrite-switch-rotate-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message10.JPG]]

====Config 13: Physics simulator====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / copy pread pread -- -- / copy switch -- -- -- / pwrite rotate switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-pread-pread-copy-copy-pwrite-rotate-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message11.JPG]]

====Config 14: Magnet current regulators====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch switch cache / -- -- -- rotate rotate

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message12.JPG]]

====Config 15: Atomic Clock====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / switch zone zone -- -- / -- switch -- -- -- / -- -- switch cache -- / -- -- -- rotate --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-switch-switch-switch-rotate-cache

[[Image:Backdoor message14.jpg]]

====Config 16: Big Nothing====
'''Configuration:''' zone mount copy -- -- / switch zone zone switch -- / run pwrite rotate cache pread

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-pread-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_16.JPG]]

====Config 17: Nuclear decay RNG====

'''Configuration:''' zone mount -- -- -- / zone zone zone -- -- / pwrite rotate switch -- -- / -- -- -- cache --

'''Command Path:''' zone-mount-zone-zone-zone-pwrite-rotate-switch-cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message13.JPG]]

====Config 18: WHISK array====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - - S - -/ Ca - - S -/Ro Pr Z Z Z/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Switch-Switch-Zone-Zone-Zone-Pread-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message17.JPG]]

====Config 19: Tajison PW Accelerator====

'''Configuration:''' Z M - - -/ - S Z - -/ - - S - C/- - - S R/- - - R S/

'''Command Path:''' Zone-Mount-Zone-Switch-Switch-Switch-Switch-Rotate-Rotate-Cache

[[Image:Backdoor_message19.JPG]]

==Historical Cryptographers==

Some of the names mentioned in the logs share the names of historic cryptographers and mathematicians.

; Bazeries : French military cryptographer, the 'pragmatic man of cryptology'. Famous for breaking the French 'Great Cipher' created in the 17th century.
; Porta : Giovanni Battista Porta, Italian cryptographer and inventor of the Della Porta cipher - a polyalphabetic cipher with keyword.
; Ashford : the name of the village in Kent where John Wallis, 17th century mathematician, was born. He wrote among other things, about the quadrature of curves, logic, theology and cryptography.
; Carrick : the name of a Windows-based encryption application, designed by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.

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SteveC: /* Config 3: Neuro Scanner */

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SteveC: /* Config 2: Approaching the Master */

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SteveC: /* Config 11: Reynolds ioniser */

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SteveC: /* Config 10: Nanoscale imager */

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SteveC: /* Config 9: Project Data */

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SteveC: /* Config 8: Kiteway disrupting the department */

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SteveC: /* Config 7: Coffee */

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SteveC: /* Config 6: Gatehouse 24 */

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SteveC: /* Config 5: Sphere */

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SteveC: /* Config 4: Laser */