i can chime in here . Those are threads from “endchan” and the threads were called “outer heaven” and “outer heaven 2.0” — the threads — with full text of all posts — are scrubbed from the internet on all major search sites. BUT , you can find them on scribd — links are floating around places , but you could try searching for bits of the python code posted above “jean.py” … along with the Kerry transactions , and you will be able to locate the threads in question. This is very real. I was able to duplicate all of the work so far mentioned in this thread (up to this post , reading through in order) . but you will not be able to duplicate work with scripts as posted , because blockchain explorers (specifically blockchain.info) no longer contains the information you need to follow the trail. this does not mean the information is gone , it means that the blockchain explorers are hosted on a third party website , and designed for people who do not possess their own copy of the blockchain. This will next lead you to the realization that you must possess your very own copy of the blockchain , and then run the scripts . I believe this will work. However , this is where i began running into additional problems and again could not duplicate work. Long and short of it is : the btc blockchain you will download today does not contain the OP codes …that was a change quietly made by btc core during the soft fork that occurred sround July -September of last year ish. So, this next led me to the realization that I need to download a copy of the blockchain from prior to the fork, from someone that did not do the segwit upgrade … now, this is where I ran into the problems. I can not locate a copy of that blockchain. if I had had a copy of the blockchain already , prior to all this , I would be good to go. But since I didn’t , and needed to download one , i was forced to try and locate it …which is, as far as I can tell, a very difficult thing to do. This next led me to the realization that perhaps i should check out the btc forks since the data should be there , and then you’ll have to start worrying about the timing of the fork, because it has to occur before segwit. Bitcoin cash qualifies. So next, I downloaded bitcoin cash blockchain. That was a dead end. For someone reason, bitcoin cash retained all of the transaction information …but diD NOT retain the original BTC op codes, which , again, are needed to generate the files. Someone please correct me if I am wrong on that , but that is my understanding and i was unable to find the info needed using btc cash because of the op code issue. All of that took a lot of time and effort and still resulted in a dead end. As of today, this is still where I am currently at. As far as I can tell , what I need to duplicate it is a copy of the blockchain from some node that didn’t follow the fork, i don’t know how to find and download that, and I don’t know anyone who has it . I HAVE asked around , and I found many people who have a node …but all of them did the upgrade, so…no dice. At least , so far. It is definitely out there somewhere though and I will pursue further if someone can point out next steps from here. As a final note: please do read the “outer heaven” threads. That is the source of the “this is the end” type pictures you’ll find floating around places. It’s on scribd. And if you can’t find it there , I will drop them here once I can get back to a computer (72 hours away from now at least, long story) this board accepts PDFs , yeah?
Post your error I think I got that one also, fixed it eventually but whatever solution I had was super hacky and definitely not pythonic doctrine. but if you hit that error you’re on the right track I think. Some change must have occurred. I can help diagnose though if you post your error output
the jean.pu thing is doing something where python is reading raw data and creating something like a C-struct from it , and telling it to make sure the strict is reading in integer length info …but it’s all janky because it relies on some module to do it and I think the module itself has since changed . it’d be better to translate this into C so then we could understand what the hell is actually going on when those calls get made. But I dig into the source code for those packages a while back and ultimately hacked something janky together for it. but yeah post errors I’ll orobably have to redo it myself anyway because I’m sure I forgot how I made it work by now
Nobody is cracking encryption here or claiming to crack encryption by “trying random keys” . the files are encrypted , getting the files takes work , and decrypting the encryption requires passwords. Files are encrypted multiple times (decrypting one reveals another file that is also encrypted). but you need the files and you need the first layer removed or you won’t be able to do anything when and if the keys are revealed (or discovered)
Another program that automates this is “binwalk” — the better parts of it are only available on Linux but the bits about extracting known file types from file headers will run on any Unix system (ie works on OS X also)
The outer heaven articles imply that there are instances of both — st the block level AND the transaction level. The oiter heaven threads also contain source code for detecting files from either level.