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SalPhaseIon & Cosmic Duality

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SalPhaseIon

Embedded within the encoded sequence below are plaintext fragments visible to careful readers:

“shabefour first hint is your last command”
“shabefanstoo”

The sequence uses characters a–i interspersed with z, o, s, u markers and two partial base64 fragments.

SalPhaseIon — encoded sequence (verbatim)

d b b i b f b h c c b e g b i h a b e b e i h b e g g e g e b e b b g e h h e b h h f b a b f d h b e f f c d b b f c c c g b f b e e g g e c b e d c i b f b f f g i g b e e e a b e a b b a b b a b a b b a a a a b a b b b a b a a a b b b a a b a a b b a b a a b a b b b b a a a a b b b a a b b a b b b a b a b a b b a b b a b a b b a b b a a a b b a b a a b a b b b a a b b a b b b a b a a f a e d g g e e d f c b d a b h h g g c a d c f e d d g f d g b g i g a a e d g g i a f a e c g h g g c d a i h e h a h b a h i g c e i f g b f g e f g a i f a b i f a g a e g e a c g b b e a g f g g e e g g a f b a c g f c d b e i f f a a f c i d a h g d e e f g h h c g g a e g d e b h h e g e g h c e g a d f b d i a g e f c i c g g i f d c g a a g g f b i g a i c f b h e c a e c b c e i a i c e b g b g i e c d e g g f g e g a e d g g f i i c i i i f i f h g g c g f g d c d g g e f c b e e i g e f i b g i b g g g h h f b c g i f d e h e d f d a g i c d b h i c g a i e d a e h a h g h h c i h d g h f h b i i c e c b i i c h i h i i i g i d d g e h h d f d c h c b a f g f b h a h e a g e g e c a f e h g c f g g g g c a g f h h g h b a i h i d i e h h f d e g g d g c i h g g g g g h a d a h i g i g b g e c g e d f c d g g a c c d e h i i c i g f b f f h g g a e i d b b e i b b e i i f d g f d h i e e e i e e e c i f d g d a h d i g g f h e g f i a f f i g g b c b c e h c e a b f b e d b i i b f b f d e d e e h g i g f a a i g g a g b e i i c h i e d i f b e h g b c c a h h b i i b i b b i b d c b a h a i d h f a h i i h i c z a g d a f a o a h e i e c g g c h g i c b b h c g b e h c f c o a b i c f d h h c d b b c a g b d a i o b b g b e a d e d d e z c f o b f d h g d o b d g o o i i g d o c d a o o f i d h z s h a b e f o u r f i r s t h i n t i s y o u r l a s t c o m m a n d U 2 F s d G V k X 1 8 6 t Y U 0 h V J B X X U n B U O 7 C 0 + X 4 K U W n W k C v o Z S x b R D 3 w N s G W V H e f v d r d 9 z a b b a a b a b a b b a b b b a a b b b a b a a a b b a a b a b a b b b a a b a Q v X 0 t 8 v 3 j P B 4 o k p s p x e b R i 6 s E 1 B M l 5 H I 8 R k u + K e j U q T v d W O X 6 n Q j S p e p X w G u N / j J s h a b e f a n s t o o

contains embedded plaintext, partial base64 fragments, and a-i letter sequences separated by z/o markers

Cosmic Duality

Cosmic Duality — AES-256-CBC / base64 ciphertext

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dGJh4SJIP66qRtXvo7PTpvsIjwO8prLiC/sNHthxiGMuqIrKoO224rOisFJZgARi
c7PaJPne4nab8XCFuV3NbfxGX2BUjNkef5hg7nsoadZx08dNyU2b6eiciWiUvu7D
SATSFO7IFBiAMz7dDqIETKuGlTAP4EmMQUZrQNtfbJsURATW6V5VSbtZB5RFk0O+
IymhstzrQHsU0Bugjv2nndmOEhCxGi/lqK2rLNdOOLutYGnA6RDDbFJUattggELh
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ubml0PUnAnkdmnBCpbClbZMzmo3ELZ0EQwsvkJFDMQmiRhda4nBooUW7zXOIb7Wx
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MGo76xpPwYs3eUdLjtANS83a6/F/fhkX1GXs7zbQjh+Inzk8jhEdEogl9jPs/oDj
KjbkUpFlsCWwAZGoeKlmX7c4OGuD5c+FEH+2nYHvYl8y1E/K5SDt9Uocio8XuxbD
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b3kE08RydJV70eJsvEftF5hbED4HacGx9pzisaSz6t9AKiuSoF6uoCtlTIYatyfZ
kQA4wg50hAJqTynOQ09ArRHEchtB/7uvWZSBGJ7+zlzRGKx99P3oDZD+Y5D8bmUs
3PV6FnAp+IRSlnsQ6hChkwBoQUcngcfGSkBRvmGjsGercCetRRwBOfh9fbX2ruw4
mzRYrGnz9eBtepkJXDRjD6yvhNfQMCSkm6l9zMWxKvFbv5g2ae2SLrEt/x3MP2/G

aes-256-cbc / base64

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