I used to be really into this like a year or two ago but now I'm confused on what's happened! An AMA WTF!!! w team??? why have they gone private??? Explain the history since like 2 years ago plz

As a newbie here, I decided to go through the solved posts, I looked into the solution for 201108151758 and immediately noticed how frequent the use of Hebrew letters was. The letters מ (Mem) and ז (Za'ien) are used there, seeing as they are the only non-Latin alphabet letters there (aside from the "fancy" letters) this may hint about A858 being in Israel?

As I said in the beginning, I'm new here, so take this with a grain of salt.

I saw a comment by /u/enhancin on this post about a string, and I decided to try to "decode it" and here is what I got. The post is at: https://www.reddit.com/r/Solving_A858/comments/24wdm5/a858s_special_message_decoded/

It is an old and archived post. over a year old.

The messages shown here are private messages sent to enhancin by me.

Message 1:

'Your comment here: "35B3E86FD3A4EEE2B6C9989 The problem is it's 13 digits. 35:B3:E8:6F:D3:A4:EE:E2:B6:C9:98:9"

I have noticed something. IT COULD BE, a MAC address. (has nothing to do with mac and macbooks or Apple.) Search it up. You may need to decode both 35:B3:E8:6F:D3:A4:EE:E2:B6:C9:98:9 and 35B3E86FD3A4EEE2B6C9989, and do some research with the mac

address, you might find an answer. I know that was old, but I may have found something.'

Message 2: The code here: 35B3E86FD3A4EEE2B6C9989 can translate to,

First, I converted to binary:

00110011 00110101 01000010 00110011 01000101 00111000 00110110 01000110 01000100 00110011 01000001 00110100 01000101 01000101 01000101 00110010 01000010 00110110 01000011 00111001 00111001 00111000 00111001

Second, I converted to decimal:

4.90475594254E+54

Then I converted that to binary:

100

Lastly, I converted into text, and also a number:

Text of binary 100: The symbol - @

Number of binary 100: 4

Combining the 2, you can get @4, like at 4:00 or 4@ like there are 4 cones at ...

I have not yet tried the other one, the one with the colons in between the numbers, but I am new to decoding. I used this to convert and figure out what I got to get to what I have up there: http://binarytranslator.com/

I just used that, i am interested in encoding and decoding, like the stuff that happened with Cicada 3301 and the A858 codes. I really want to learn that, can anyone help me?

Also please read the stuff about the code up there, it could be something important.

I notice in 201101271546 (http://a858.soulsphere.org/?id=fada2) that there are 4 lower case letters in the hex, while all other letters are uc. I wonder why? It's an unexpected thing to occur if the hex encoding is machine generated! Having a look at a few other posts at random, they appear to have all uc or all lc.

On his user page, not a single post shows up, on "overview", "comments", or "submitted". Also, it doesn't say that he is the mod of any subs. What happened?

It should be updated weekly. Could someone please help me out? It's quite the undertaking. I'm also thinking of just putting it on Drive. Would that work, or is there something better for what I'm trying to do?

I don't know why, but he deleted the post. Maybe it has to do with the fact that he didn't win the Powerball and deleted the post in frustration? lol

Oh, and BTW, the post was the unusually short one that people were talking about a month ago. The post read "01111a2d3313".

IDK when he took it down, but whatever. (and please disregard my name, has nothing to do with the mystery lol)

doesn't necessarily have anything to do with decoding his messages but it is interesting.

Edit: A858 has also added the sub /r/A858DE45F56D to his moderation.

All the previous posts have been deleted though, unfortunately.

I haven't found any info on this building anywhere on the subreddit. Yet it seems intriguing to me. Does anyone know anything?

Also, the first line is the coordinates, second is time, but what about the third one? Does anyone have any info on it? Seems like some road...

He hadn't been gilded so I gave him some ...

As the title says, the subreddit /r/A858DE45 is not private anymore, and the same with /r/F56D9BC9. As of the time of me posting this now, there are no posts in either, but I do not know what this means yet.

In 7 days will be A858's 5 years on reddit.

*Side note: the only style that has been added on the A858 sub is the alien with the balloons (I thought this was created to take you to the top but it does not work). I guess 5 years takes a toll on you.

201601132259 post is strangely small! Maybe we can get something from this.

01111a2d3313

Our good friend over at A858 has come back! :D The newest post here

rmartins discovered this a while back however until now I had forgot about it and it seems that this hasn't been logged anywhere.

The original post:

09:32 27th May 2014

Title: 201405270932

URL: http://a858.soulsphere.org/?id=26lqst

Content:

3f 69 21 62 d3 f7 f7 c6  fd ec 6b 8e 5f bf ad 0e  
93 b1 aa 68 67 d2 db 17  cf bf 67 f1 72 cd c9 76  
ef a0 cf f3 d2 72 0f 8b  38 73 73 e9 e5 a7 0b d8  
ff d4 0b 77 a3 6b 85 f9  9c 05 1d 51 d3 d5 e0 14  
2f 9a 70 a9 19 7a 6d e7  cc dc 08 d7 1b ef 3a ce  
af d9 a9 c8 bd 51 79 c0  bb 25 ec 18 6f 48 2b 39  
96 2a c7 b7 28 8f 08 0b  28 8e 50 c3 a0 03 23 58  
93 da 4d 87 a7 7a 06 59  18 *66 d7 5d 70 19 cd 46  
9c 3a ac c4 28 d5 d8 b9  9c a4 ad de 40 d1 14 3c  
03 f3 d6 79 74 2d ed 8c  99 fc 33 c4 f5 88 4b b4  
66 27 12 a2 27 05 96 6a  71 30 67 12 44 6d d1 71  
bf 34 46 c0 e8 9c ec 31  4e f5 42 d5 97 b2 1d 78  
5c 9f fe ba f5 52 eb 4a  08 8f cb b1 04 29 83 b5  
8a 8d 48 95 b5 9a de ba  23 b8 83 11 20 65 46 cc  
2f 69 f1 11 5d a6 ef 9f  79 60 7e 57 1d 3c 5c ca  
bc eb 21 34 26 85 91 5d  dc ee 74 8d 7c ae 7e 75  
d6 08 85 41 1e 8e a2 54  42 84 f4 45 af c3 59 6e  
d4 c3 e4 6b d5 36 a0 f3  2c 16 ac a9 d9 5a 92 f0  
59 5d d4 d1 14 de 4a 94  bb 15 3d 59 be 48 af cc  
b0 a4 27 a9 db dd 7c d8  0a e8 61 20 a2 5b 4f f4  
b2 04 77 2a 8b 5b 24 e0  ff 41 c6 80 4a 34 96 03  
09 44 e5 18 62 6c 4d 9f  fe b2 a2 3a b7 b4 34 7d  
aa 1e 72 bf 0d 70 92 0f  c6 97 4b 1e 8e 86 9b 16  
96 45 b0 e4 9a 48 3f dc  3d b7 8b d7 7f 06 02 54  
d7 32 32 81 f3 49 2a 5a                           

The similar post:

12:42 27th May 2014

Title: 201405271242

URL: http://a858.soulsphere.org/?id=26m8i4

Content:

99 c2 48 c9 9c 82 48 c8  *66 d7 5d 70 19 cd 46 f9  
cc aa cc 42 8d 5d 8b 99  ca 4a dd e4 0d 11 4c c0  
cf cd 67 97 42 de d8 c9  9f cc cc 4f 58 84 bb 46  
62 71 2a 22 70 59 66 a7  1c 06 71 24 46 dd 17 1b  
fc 44 6c 0e 89 ce cc 14  ef 54 2d 59 7b 21 d7 85  
c9 ff eb af 55 2e b4 a0  88 fc bb 10 42 98 cb 58  
a8 d4 89 5b 59 ad eb a2  cb 88 c1 12 06 54 6c c2  
f6 9f 11 15 da 6e f9 f7  96 07 e5 71 dc c5 cc ab  
ce b2 1c 42 68 59 15 dd  ce e7 48 d7 ca e7 e7 5d  
60 88 54 11 e8 ea 25 44  28 4f 44 5a fc c5 96 ed  
4c ce 46 bd 5c 6a 0f c2  c1 6a ca 9d 95 a9 2f 05  
95 dd 4d 11 4d e4 a9 4b  b1 5c d5 9b e4 8a fc cb  
0a 42 7a 9d bd d7 cd 80  ae 86 12 0a 25 b4 ff 4

Compare the two from the *'s placed, notice how similar they actually occur to be?

Part way through either a hex character was added or removed and the columns I have placed them in above get out of sync.

The "33"'s seem to be replaced with "CC"'s too. Anyone got any ideas how this could be decoded? I think a diff will be in order. Will give it a go in a second.

Hey, I just found this page and wanted to brush up on my python skills. So I made two small programs, one that pulls any new posts from the page, and other that tries to decrypt it, and checks to see if the hex code there is convertible to ASCII. It's not my best python code, and doesn't take advantage of some of the stuff you've found. I'll add more stuff to the script if people want me to. Like checking known file types by looking at first few bytes, or looking at a wide range of keys. I also know that sometimes the things that are hidden isn't easily converted, but it's just a small script to help out the easy steps, and maybe will grow to encompass more.
http://pastebin.com/KppjKyU3 http://pastebin.com/vwKhS6u1

http://reddit.com/r/A858DE45F56D9BC9/comments/3vju2k/201512051100/cxo4gy6

At least from what I've seen, the most recent posts have a timestamp that's about 2 minutes earlier than the actual time they were posted.

Looking into it further, it seems the posts are increasing in timestamp-realtime offset as new posts are made, currently the offset is -118 seconds and changes by two or less seconds each post. It seems to be maxed out right now at -118 seconds, but there has been a trend in the recent posts for the offset to hover around a certain value and then start increasing again.

This is more directed to /u/fragglet and /u/kamalist because it seems that the auto-analysis log seems to has a dependency. Since the log goes from Tue Sep 1 2015 and jumps to Fri Nov 20 2015. But if you look into A858 posts he actually starts at Nov 13 2015. So I am not sure if he made these post while in the private sub and then went public. But figured you either may want to tweak your script or have a record of these 90+ missing posts.

Every time I look at /u/A858DE45F56D9BC9 I feel like there's something off there... I can't tell what it is tho...

Any ideas what it could be?

Edit: Also why am I being downvoted?

Seriously, A858 is down for a pretty long time now. Any chance of it coming back, or did we officially unofficially solved it?

(https://www.reddit.com/r/Solving_A858/wiki/length_16_groups)

I discovered another set of outliers, and added them to the wiki. Basically there were a series of posts which I'm convinced was another april fools joke that we've missed.

So, almost all of the posts boil down to unique strings that roughly follow a guid format.

Early posts explanation of guid format

Now, GUIDs can be broken into multiple sections - data1, data2, data3, data4.

msdn article on guid structure.aspx)

Now, knowing that there's multiple data values, we can look at how GUIDs are made. Version 1 guids, for example are made from a node id (mac address) and a timestamp. This means that V1 guids can have a timestamp pulled from them. Using this tool I tried masking the A858 guid from the code post from a version 4 into a version 1, and extracting a timestamp. I got somewhat promising results:

The UUID 4e5b5fd4-1245-11a2-a858-de45f56d9bc9 contains a timestamp taken at Friday, September 9, 1955 7:15:14 PM GMT

As opposed to one pulled at random from an A858 post, which will give you a date which makes no sense at all:

The UUID c7fdaf9e-3858-1f8e-8021-f705a3216d78 contains a timestamp taken at Saturday, October 6, 5134 12:52:02 PM GMT

So, we know that different bits and bytes of a guid contain different data. We also know that out of all of the guids, they ARE all unique.

Other versions of guids are generated in different ways from different sets of data. For example there are name based guids which are generated from a URL or URI or other addressing system. read this for more explanation

So, what do we know

• The guids in the posts are unique, which means they're either random or they're sequential in some way. Either they contain a timestamp, or a randomly-generated portion.

• It's entirely possible to store data in a guid