The Engineer's Cache (Auckland) Mystery Cache
The Engineer's Cache (Auckland)
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Are you an engineer? Find out while you take a nice stroll around one of the path to the cache.
THE LISTED COORDINATES ARE BOGUS - DO NOT GO THERE!!
In the days of disparate computer systems, a major problem was to get several different types of system to talk together. They did this by a network.
Some form of translation method was needed.
It was in 1984 when Len and Sandy, who were in love at the time, wanted to talk across town but couldn’t at this time. They both were at Stanford University. These clever people devised a box that could do this.
Len and Sandy, with the expertise of Greg and Kirk, worked together to enable disparate systems to talk with each other and share information reliably. But in order for the systems to be truly interconnected, a technology has to be invented that can deal with the disparate local area protocols.
From this day on, communications have been made easier and there would be hardly anyone who hasn’t passed traffic over one of these at one time or another.
These units needed to be a bit secure so they devised a simple password scheme to allow them to secure plain text passwords. Later on, they devised a one way MD5 Hash system that cannot be decrypted to my knowledge.
The final location is saved in the data fields below:-
105D1D115641165E5D143E7F717E
045E18125E76184A5C4B1503475B54
Have a go at decrypting to find the final. There are some on line tools on the net around to do this.
Park at S36 51.172 E174 52.600 or for a nice walk down the back of peoples sections by the creek, park at S36 51.147 E174 52.311.
Now you will need some tools for this one as it has a twist. Without tools, you will not be able to sign the log.
In addition to this, there is not too much room in there so only small items or Geo Coins will fit.
Make sure PHILLIP comes along for the ride as you will need him to get inside. All good engineers should have at least one of him in their toolkit. If stuck without the tools, better have a look in the car tool kit, as it may have just what you need.
Cache is an Ice Cream container with this strange unit inside some bags. Please be gentle with the bags as they will protect the delicate insides.
Better bring a pen as well in case the pencil breaks, no room for a sharpener..
Happy Caching.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Uvag 1:- Gurl anzrq gur qrivpr hfvat gur cnegvny anzr bs n snzbhf pvgl jvgu n oevqtr.
Uvag 2:- Jurer gur teniry zrrgf gur svorebhf oebja uneq fghss.
Treasures
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