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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
arg
on 02/07/2014, 23:05:38 UTC

So, there are 2147129 bytes of additional data besides the audio and video streams in Space.mp4

Yep. That's exactly the path I took.


Code:
8057685995569da18a15912e754e1510181acb8cad31dfcabb9cab367245be2b = sha256("there's a bunch of data at the end of the file I can't identify. the data is uniform and random, so it's almost certainly encrypted.")

Looking at the split binary a bit deeper we get:

Code:
$ ent split
Entropy = 7.999908 bits per byte.

Optimum compression would reduce the size
of this 2147129 byte file by 0 percent.

Chi square distribution for 2147129 samples is 273.12, and randomly
would exceed this value 20.80 percent of the times.

Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 127.4944 (127.5 = random).
Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.140655128 (error 0.03 percent).
Serial correlation coefficient is -0.001094 (totally uncorrelated = 0.0).

Maybe file can help us out?

Code:
$ file split.bin
split.bin: data

It's encrypted, whatever it is. However it's not the right size to be any block cipher I know of.

Code:
split.bin https://mega.co.nz/#!SF9m0I5R!xOlTLH6-f8DujD92CYNTt1lpunXWn3pikcLV1ZPXVk4