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Introduction

In the last challenge, you found out who stole the bitcoins. Now is the task to steal the bitcoins back. I didn't manage to steal them back so I'm going to give you the hints that I found. Let's get started.

Story

First of all, I hacked into Bee Holzman's laptop and found the following files:

Zinc.txt

Which contained the following text:

recursion

The second file is:

Molybdenum.txt (pastebin link) (text also found below)

It contains 150 private keys for bitcoin addresses, but I checked all of them and they we're all empty. I didn't understand why though.

The last thing I found was a script. A very weird script that can be found here. It seems to decrypt a password filled in in input and converts it to a private key.

Do you know what the private key is?

To prevent link rot, the external data linked to above can also be found below.

Pastebin Contents:

Molybdenum.txt

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Very Weird Script:

16764312785644I214ö7895%4+FD*§100£}¬"HJKHJKHJKHJKH"sè5s«?62B49£"I0lO""J1LP"‡,

... written in 05AB1E, a golfing language that is, as of the time of this writing, the first language listed at http://tryitonline.net/ due to alphabetic sorting on that site

Hints

Hint 1: the SHA256 hash of the key is d60f9c637d9d5a067fdb33751ce56a97760b5bef208b3688f2a663b7903675f1.


Hint 2: the keys in the file Molybdenum.txt have no bitcoins in it, and have therefore no meaning (do they?).

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  • $\begingroup$ Once we have a candidate key how do we check if it could be correct? Is there some way to check ourselves? $\endgroup$
    – Avik Mohan
    Aug 29, 2016 at 15:23
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    $\begingroup$ @AvikMohan I have added a SHA256 version of the key. $\endgroup$
    – Adnan
    Aug 29, 2016 at 15:26

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Step 1: Figuring out the password

I have used 4 potential passwords:

Zinc, recursion, Molybdenum and Test (Unlikely)

These give respectfully:

5HNivwnPCJ4bmwJ2RfPfdZQdMsqLsLxsvF7xj1HWAgsP9SPEsJk, 5J2sEtNF8ePJLvLgHPMUKuAR32PJRsAf2EB7d5MjNnkvV7eB14V, 5J4PBeAoDt679T2PJD1Ys1gyi2C1N65tFL71coYPUttPL9dpdt3, 5J3TbqXNZkzi2chux679A3KLLyZmWEmFUJmvR54FaL25qWJnM41,

Step 2: Figuring out the Private key

I'm a bit stumped here. The possible private keys don't match any of the addresses listed.

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  • $\begingroup$ Nope, the private key isn't there :p. $\endgroup$
    – Adnan
    Aug 29, 2016 at 15:00
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    $\begingroup$ incidentally, since one of the words is recursion, I went at least three deep, copying the output into the input on each of these words, plus the .txt files extensions for those that had them. Still got nothing $\endgroup$
    – Sconibulus
    Aug 29, 2016 at 15:29
  • $\begingroup$ @Sconibulus That's a smart idea. I would bet that plays a role somewhere $\endgroup$
    – Avik Mohan
    Aug 29, 2016 at 15:30
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I added privkeys and the result was - i add privkeys and check real ones - the results was -

https://i.stack.imgur.com/c4imW.jpg

Then I used script with number from this question URL number -

41664

the hash from the hint was the same so this was the answer.

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  • $\begingroup$ I don't understand how you got the result in that imgur link - could you clarify? $\endgroup$
    – fuandon
    Aug 31, 2016 at 23:31
  • $\begingroup$ Angel, you seem to have got the answer, but good answers need an explanation of the steps you took, could you please add some detail? $\endgroup$
    – Jonathan Allan
    Sep 2, 2016 at 17:34

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