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Key frequency analysis (short keys have leading "3"'s trimmed)

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12Me21Created:
Notice how 3 (the most common character) is never in the first position. Keys with fewer than 8 characters just had 3's at the beginning which were trimmed off. KXJJ333 = 3KXJJ333, for example.

shh the illuminati heard that

So maybe they randomly scrambled the characters? ...why would they do that?

How do you know this?

Replying to:Midnight
How do you know this?
if you type a key that's less than 8 digits with 3s equal to the amout of digits less than 8 before the key it will download the program. (so if you have a program which has a key of AABBCCD you can type 3AABBCCD instead and it will download it)

Replying to:Midnight
How do you know this?
Ah! Thanks

Replying to:Midnight
How do you know this?
np

So, what's this useful for...?

Replying to:spaceturtles
So, what's this useful for...?
really nothing, it's just a fact.

Replying to:spaceturtles
So, what's this useful for...?
It's useful in the case where you want to type extra threes so you can have the satisfaction of supporting the illuminati adding random garbage to yet another location.

Take a key with less than 8 digits Add 3's to the front to make it 8 digits You now have an 8 digit key Any key containing 8 digits can have up to 6 of any digits added to the end of that key And it'll still accept it The public key AABBCC =3AABBCC =33AABBCC =33AABBCC_HELLO =33AABBCCDDEEFF Getting the smallest public key is all about getting multiple 3's in a row in the beginning Interesting find

So the characters 0, I (uppercase i), O, U, -, and _ never appear in keys, which means there are exactly 32 characters that do appear in the keys: 3, E, 4, K, D, N, X, V, J, 2, Q, 5, 8, A, R, S, Y, C, P, 7, W, Z, H, B, 1, F, M, L, 9, 6, G, T Considering that keys are in base-32, with 3 being unscrambled to 0, we can use the position frequency in the graph to estimate the order of unscrambling keys, to get their base-10 index

Replying to:Simeon
So the characters 0, I (uppercase i), O, U, -, and _ never appear in keys, which means there are exactly 32 characters that do appear in the keys: 3, E, 4, K, D, N, X, V, J, 2, Q, 5, 8, A, R, S, Y, C, P, 7, W, Z, H, B, 1, F, M, L, 9, 6, G, T Considering that keys are in base-32, with 3 being unscrambled to 0, we can use the position frequency in the graph to estimate the order of unscrambling keys, to get their base-10 index
How many keys did you use to make that graph? Can you share the database with us too?

Replying to:Simeon
So the characters 0, I (uppercase i), O, U, -, and _ never appear in keys, which means there are exactly 32 characters that do appear in the keys: 3, E, 4, K, D, N, X, V, J, 2, Q, 5, 8, A, R, S, Y, C, P, 7, W, Z, H, B, 1, F, M, L, 9, 6, G, T Considering that keys are in base-32, with 3 being unscrambled to 0, we can use the position frequency in the graph to estimate the order of unscrambling keys, to get their base-10 index
About 1000 I think. https://pastebin.com/raw/PFugbCGu There are a few duplicates

Replying to:Simeon
Take a key with less than 8 digits Add 3's to the front to make it 8 digits You now have an 8 digit key Any key containing 8 digits can have up to 6 of any digits added to the end of that key And it'll still accept it The public key AABBCC =3AABBCC =33AABBCC =33AABBCC_HELLO =33AABBCCDDEEFF Getting the smallest public key is all about getting multiple 3's in a row in the beginning Interesting find
ALREADY EXPLAINED ON i's COMMENT BY ME to quote myself:"if you type a key that's less than 8 digits with 3s equal to the amout of digits less than 8 before the key it will download the program. (so if you have a program which has a key of AABBCCD you can type 3AABBCCD instead and it will download it)"

Replying to:MochaProbably
shh the illuminati heard that
DAT:illuminati heard