Solving the potential cypher in Flynn's Parler banner (1/5)
I posted earlier an analysis from a crypto perspective of the sequence of colored squares:
>>9729125 (pb)
I tried converting the resulting sequences to a bunch of bases and character sets, but I did not see anything obvious. However, let's the Hive Mind have at it, if others are interested.
To recapitulate, there is a sequence of 120 squares of 3 different colors. So that's a base-3 number with 3 digits.
Now, there are 3 colors, so there are 6 ways of associating 0, 1 and 2 to the 3 colors:
abc
012
021
102
120
201
210
Next, you can read the sequence:
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by columns or by rows
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from left to right, or from right to left
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from top to bottom, or from bottom to top
That's 2x2x2 possibilities.
So when you combine the 2 combinatorics above, that gives 48 possible base-3 numbers, which look like sequences of 0s, 1s and 2s.
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First I generated these 48 sequences. They are in the file 'seqs_orig.txt' attached in a next message (I cannot attach it directly, 8kun will not permit it).
Then, I wrote programs that, starting from these sequences:
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can translate them into any other base greater than 2 (i.e. 3+)
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can use a given character set (e.g. 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' or 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789') to see if something that makes sense appears. To do so, it measures the length of your character set(e.g. 26 and 62 for the previous sets), creates the sequences in the base equal to that length, and then uses the character set as an alphabet to translate the sequences in the new base.
I tried a bunch of things, but I did not see words or anything particular come up.
I provide the results in base 16 below, because they can be used as decryption keys, in case that's what this is about.
I programmed in common-lisp, but as it's a complicated language, and not easy to use if you do not know it, I rewrote it quickly as a shell script. To run it, you need 'zsh' and 'bc' (works on linux, don't know about windows and mac). Shell code is an ugly language, but it works, and I do not know widely used languages (e.g. python) well enough.
To run it, launch a zsh shell, make a directory, copy the files 'source-code.zsh' and 'seqs_orig.txt' given in the next messages to that directory, and run the command (look at the source code first, as you should, but you'll see it's very simple code):
> . ./source-code.zsh
Then, you can use it with commands such as:
> prints_seqs_for_base 16
-will print the sequences in base 16 (a.k.a. hexadecimal) as below
-any base >=3 works
> print_for_char_set "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
-will print the resulting sequences using "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" as a dictionnary (and therefore, use base 26)
To those interested, happy digging! Maybe the Hive Mind will provide.
My best guess though, is that, if this is anything, it's a key for something. Which is why I join the hexadecimal results. It could be a decryption key.
But I could be wrong, so I guess there is no harm trying if you want to and have time.
These programs can also be useful if similar things present themselves in the future.
I also attached a few screenshots of the results.
1F36388E20D5D4233A80161DC65668D4A6637BD4F316D972
36477DB01C9B65C780A3AD9722D6760F92E43ED18CBF26B4
D938FB95119F93F7EB4F7A81147209D43F7BB793ECED4EE
3BB619FD48A51C880AFC269ACA473B131CF94172721F6F72
13022C067D23B000090D70ABB8B7E5A0CE0CBE1A242F1DAC
2A13712878E941A44F3108251537F2DBBA8D8116BDD76AEE
9805A7402533D8527942C6E8BC061C75009704FC10310A6
12FFBDE0588208099C55AE8B7D8F5CC8D7BC1EACFE24D56C
1B25716EF6B0C05F50170D047BF832D6A8C5D0189B555D6A
2E243847A30E5568399A113E5F9628D9B82B2CD31598E6F6
3649EBD6413D0DBDED5B6FB75DFEFEE78934DE3EB2C96EF4
3FC94F42976BD842621CF1D44FCDF9E910E78C9BEFEB33BA
(Actually, the message is already too long to post for 8kun. I will post the full list in another message.)