EASTER EGG 2024

December 6, 2024

Continuing our tradition we have once again hidden an Easter egg this year. This is how an unexpected funny feature of a software is called. We wish you fun while searching for it. While our first Easter egg of 2017 is still available, as it is very funny, we search for a new, second Easter egg. (Those of the other years do not function anymore, we are hiding something new each year.)

Please do not ask questions about the Easter egg by the contact form or by email. Those will be ignored and not answered. There is nothing to win, it is just for fun. Whoever finds it, may write an email to webmaster@physik-im-advent.de.

We will release further hints about the Easter egg here in the next days. As we do not link this page from the start page all the time, please first remember the URL of this page. And you can start the search …

December 8, 2024

Hey, remembered the URL? Obviously. Very good! Unfortunately there is not yet a hint for today, but tomorrow we will release the first hint. And continuing that way, every third day.

December 9, 2024

You need to be logged in to trigger the Easter egg.

December 12, 2024

The Easter egg is hidden on one of the pages only accessible after login.

December 15, 2024

It is on the profile page quite similar to the Easter egg of 2017.

December 18, 2024

Some other text (additional to the year on pupil accounts) is active for clicks.

December 21, 2024

The description text and the value is toggled to some other data.

December 24, 2024

The other data shown is rather cryptic.

December 27, 2024

You can click on "Login:" within your profile to toggle between the login and the password. The password is shown as stored in the database, i.e. encrypted with sha256 for normalization reasons followed by bcrypt to make it extremely hard to brute force passwords. While it remains easy to check a password for correctness, it is impossible calculate the password from the stored data. The only option would be the extremely time and resource consuming brute force attack of testing all possible passwords.

We received the first messages that the Easter egg was found on December 6 already. But we also received a few messages containing wrong, but quite good/interesting feedback. Later we got more and more correct solutions. We hope the search for the Easter egg was fun for you as it was for us.

We wish you a nice holiday season and a happy new year. We will see us again next year, deal?! Until then!