Quote from: Mr.Smithers on January 10, 2018, 12:06:28 PM

Quote from: kn0w0n3 on January 10, 2018, 06:07:09 AM

In the interest of keeping my post about more then just engaging this nonsense.., I wanted to visually be able to see what flames were responsible for that "iskeyfile" pattern.., so I worked through it by hand and color coded the bits.

Note: when I say Top/Top I am referring to the outside track of the top of the image, after it has been rotated 90 degrees cw (Portrait).

https://imgur.com/a/DGGOg

Could you please tell more on what to look for in the visualisation? I mean, the color codes, there are quite a lot of colors used in the file, could you please explain how to read the file?

Sure,

Starting at the top, the first row contains percentages for each track. This is the percentage of erroneous bits (Flames that did not contribute to making a word) Below that are the 6 tracks of flames that we are going to work with. Below that are the tracks of flames combined, below that are the same flames, but split into groups of 6. After that come the ribbon bits for xoring and below at the resultant bitstring. Finally, the last row (Right above the letters) is the decoded string. (After we've taken every 5th bit multiple times)

Then you have the letters decoded from the bacon cypher and below that some tables.

As far as what the colors mean. There are two kinds, and they mean different things.

Text Colors:

Each time I went through and counted every 5th bit (after xoring) I assigned it a color.

First run was green
Second run was light blue
Third run was purple
and finally the last run was Dark blue

If a bit (flame) did not contribute to making one of the words "the" or "iskeyfile" it was assigned a red color.

Now you can easily see what words were created from what flames, on which track. For instance, the word "the" was created from the first three and 1 flame from the fourth track. (Meaning maybe we just got the last two tracks out of order). "keyf" is made up of a bit from every single track. So either this is a very big coincidence (50 bits had to line up correctly for iskeyfile), or this is the actual translation. I find it very unlikely that this could be a collision (unless we are using completely the wrong cyphers and just got lucky) because otherwise we would have to find a different modulus that puts 27 bits into the same order as this in order to reproduce "keyf" and part of "s". If this is how you decypher this flames, idk how I feel about that, perhaps the six letters from crax0rs version are another cypher key and perhaps the reason for the odd word choice, is because they somehow knew that those words would still be able to arranged in the 1x1x0x1x1x0x pattern.

More likely though. This is probably not the actual message, but I do like the way they went about it.., because I have a feeling more then one cypher was used.

Background colors:

The background colors in the table are easy.

The table on the left is the inner flames, the table on the right is the outer flames. I have indexed the flames 0-151 (going cw for inner flames cw for outer flames).

Blue background color is even flames that are 1
Red background color is even flames that are 0
Dark red background (flame 119) is the flame after the weird tiny red flame
Gold background color (flame 13) is the flame I'm pretty sure she originally painted as a 1 and then changed to a 0.

I find it interesting that the flame it looks like she adjusted is an odd numbered flame and not part of alphabet canary's pattern.

Anyway, hopefully that's enough for you to make sense of it. I need to stop here though as I am late for work.