Prepare - Uncover - Outwit - Find - WIN!
The 13th Steemit Crypto Challenge is over and we are happy to announce the winner:
Congratulations
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You followed your intuition and stayed on the right track. Solving the puzzle you saved your reward. 100 Steem goes to you.
Solution
Here is a breakthrough, showing step by step what you had to do in order to solve the crypto-puzzle.
The two given hints were:
base64
http://www.xup.in/dl,60841354/breakit.rar/and
Caesar Encryption
User 
LOXYZYZKVOYJJUTK is Caeser-shifted and decrypted is the following: firststepisdone. This however is not the password to unlock the rar file. Notice that I had a spelling mistake in the headline. P and Y are switched and have a number each, 1 and 2. The encrypted word has also the numbers 1 and 2, which lead to the conclusion so switch the letters here as well. Bingo now it works!
finally was able to solve the puzzle and found out that inside the .rar file was a picture. This picture contained the pastebin logo and a code. The code was part of the URL to the pastebin doc. Inside this pastebin doc was a base64 encoded passphrase U3RlZW1mZXN0MnJvY2tzIQ==. She successfully decrypted the word and got the right solution! steemfest2rocks!
Great work and congratulations to the winner and all who participated. 
Tim Said