The page contains a weird-looking long text and a picture with a space pirate holding a bottle with vinegar in their left hand.
The vinegar is obviously a hint — googling vinegar cipher auto-corrects the
search query to vigenere cipher, which is what was used to encrypt the text.
There are several ways to decrypt it:
- One could guess that the text is just taken from the SFI "About us" page, and go letter-by-letter to obtain the key used to encrypt the text,
- Standard Vigenère cipher breaking methods, like Kasiski's test and frequency analysis also give good results.
The key used is ABSOLUTELYCOOL.
Academic IT Festival is an international conference organized since 2005 by students, for students. Each year in Cracow we gather IT-enthusiasts from the entire country along with people passionate about informatics, regardless of their profession.
The conference annually hosts distinguished and well-known guests from the entire IT environment. The participants have an unique opportunity to listen to the lectures given by those amazing people and take part in workshops to develop their practical skills. Diversity of the topics allows everybody to find something interesting. It is rare opportunity to meet lots of experts face to face in one place and learn from them.
The festival gives you a chance to share your knowledge, views, opinions and more, with people with similar interests. It lets you become more aware of the IT world, make new connections, meet interesting people, expand horizons.
And the best part is – it does not cost you a thing!
Financially speaking, it is absolutely free. The next puzzle is /lookcloser/. The only ticket you will ever need is passion and interest.
Three days, over a dozen of lectures and lot of speakers. All that for thousands of satisfied participants and uncountable amount of gained skills, positive impressions and emotions. That is what SFI is all about. This conference is one of a kind, organized year after year by students, for students.