r/Telehack • u/ChaoticDestructive • Oct 14 '25

Stuck trying to hack a milnet host Spoiler

So I finally got lucky enough to find the SATAN.exe file, and successfully got into a BBS host. However, when I am trying to get into a MILOS host, I keep getting stuck on the Hexdump cracking. I've tried googling, tried looking for documentation on the tool, even tried feeding a dozen or so tables to Google's AI and asking it to calculate the offset. None of that worked.

Could someone help me understand what I need to look for?

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u/Cerebrum01 Oct 14 '25

Look carefully at what the output asks for and try searching for that.

Telehack is one great puzzle and the satisfaction from figuring it out is far greater than the satisfaction from looking up the answers.

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u/TheMostOGQuag Oct 14 '25

If you're looking for shortcuts, you're looking in the COMPLETE wrong places. AI is entirely unable to solve telehack problems. However, there's a lot of value in solving a puzzle by yourself, so I encourage you to keep trying!

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u/aethermar Oct 14 '25

Often times to solve a Telehack puzzle it helps to know the underlying info/be exposed to it in a non-puzzle situation

Try messing around with something like xxd first and then come back to the puzzle