Quote from: ghoom2 on January 07, 2018, 07:51:16 PM

Quote from: bigmattyh on January 07, 2018, 04:32:49 AM

Quote from: RealOnTheMF on January 07, 2018, 02:10:31 AM

It was my belief that the message properly decoded would read "thecolouriskeyfile", which would indicate the inner and outer colour tracks would be decrypted by following the same steps as with the height track. The British spelling of "colour" seemed reasonable because the Rob Myers guy is a filthy Canadian, and CoinArtist seemed to have EU heritage, although I couldn't find anything definitive.

Interesting -- and that would make sense too. The binary pattern we *have* is:

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100110011100100001010110011010000001010010001010001001001010001001100000101010000101100100...

and the one that *would* say "thecolouriskeyfile" is:

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100110011100100000100111001011011101010010001010001001001010001001100000101010000101100100

Differences in bold. Maybe they got off somewhere in transcribing the pattern.

theflamesiskeyfile

guys, I would hate to cool your optimism down, but of course you realize that every second binary digit (5 of them coding every baconian letter) belongs to that crazy 0x1x1x pattern that is constant throughout the flames. It can't imagine the creator choosing letters and wording so carefullty, so that she can convey her intended message but chosen letters would not break the constant pattern.

On the other hand, it makes much sense what RealOnTheMF said, that it is a massive coincidence: doing the exhaustive search of all possible permutations of all subsets of 8 flame segments, accepting CW or CCW order of each segment, skipping every 1 flame or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or whatever threshold he chose as the upper limit, applying the 011010 XOR or not, excluding first k flames when applying the XOR (k=0,1,etc.) - what I am thinking that there were so many bit streams tested (milions would be my guess), that he simply stumbled upon the words that made sense. Not entirely made sense, as you can see. Even if the 'colour' is what was really intended, we don't have to do with a key file, but with a key itself, so the message really is more or less senseless.