Riddle user A858 Bashny.Net

On reddit.com (reddit - a social news site, created by Steve Huffman in 2005) is the user A858DE45F56D9BC9, who post in your blog pieces of binary data. It continues for more than 2 years (since March 2011). It is still not clear who and what it does. Most of the data is still not decoded. This phenomenon is called a mystery A858.

The problem is dedicated to your individual blog. Below is a description of the few that managed to learn.
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Who is the A858, and what is the purpose of his blog?

There are several theories about the purpose of the blog:
1. This is a game / ARG.
(One of the basic principles of ARG - TINAG (This is not a game) - «It's not a game." This principle suggests that the game did not behave like a game, for example, telephone numbers mentioned in the game, should really exist. The participants do not receive special game space, or an explicit list of rules. The creators and managers of ARG are behind the curtain, their very existence to the end is in question. Under the question until the end should be and play the character of what is happening. This distinguishes ARG from a similar phenomenon - the urban role-playing games, where players exactly know what game they participate in. Participants ARG comprehend the rules gradually, through trial and error.)

If it's a game, it seems, it is not very successful. Most of the posts, as mentioned, has not yet been deciphered, the same that managed to decipher, there is no clear general idea. However, while it looks like the most likely explanation, since decoding positions show the author's peculiar sense of humor.
2. It Numbers station (numbers station).
(Numbers station - short-wave radio station, the ownership of which is not known. They broadcast a set of numbers, words or letters, which reads speaker or computer. In some cases, using the phonetic alphabet. The transmitted data is encrypted data and can belong to many organizations - such as intelligence, transmitting encrypted messages to its agents)

All is good, but the decrypted positions do not fit into that theory.



3. Instructions for the botnet.
(a computer network consisting of a number of hosts, with the running bots - standalone software. Most often, the boat as part of a botnet is a program secretly installed on the device of the victim and allows attackers to perform certain actions using resources of an infected computer. Commonly used for illegal or disapprove of activity - sending spam, brute force on the remote system, Denial of Service.)

A popular theory, but as in the case of the radio station license, it does not explain the decoding posts.

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4. Test task to find sotrutdnikov in information security that could decipher the code, or just headhunting.

But there is a caveat
When the positions received too much attention, they were removed. If the target is to attract experts in cryptography, then why do it? In addition, decoding encrypted positions were not in the usual sense of the word.



5.Seriynye rooms.
There is speculation that this serials goods soskanirovanye in store.



The next important question is: What is contained in the posts?

Most recent posts looks like a casual / encrypted data. But some early positions have been decoded, for example:

The executable file for Windows .NET



Stonehenge in ASCII-chart



"Primes»



What encryption is used in the posts?

Unknown. We only know that it is either random or kriptovat data in most cases. However one post was found steganographic encrypted information in the picture.

Where can I find old posts after they are removed / changed?

On this page - a858.soulsphere.org/.

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Among the attempts to explain such example can be found:
Entries cosmic noise,
offset πfs (https://github.com/philipl/pifs)
The encrypted code by Snowden

And so on.
And your version?

All I finished. Post using materials Habra.



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