Unidentified broadcast - 7/20/07

Yeah i tried the 64 bit decryption and then took the resulting numbers and converted them to ascii from the decimal numbers. comes up with a list of numbers separated by spaces. Although those numbers go from 1 to 9 but do not include any zeros. As others I am not sure where to go with it from there.

Yeah i tried the 64 bit decryption and then took the resulting numbers and converted them to ascii from the decimal numbers. comes up with a list of numbers separated by spaces. Although those numbers go from 1 to 9 but do not include any zeros. As others I am not sure where to go with it from there.

Yeah i've got a hard copy of every node aswell.

And the reference to the board after the movement riddle is awkward, at first i thought it was 64 squares like the chess board, but it's not. However that doesn't rule anything movement related. If the next move is the end of the game, it's possible it has something to do with the losing players king.

Side note this latter part of the riddle is seeming like a doozy, i mean outside of what you want to do to the nodes, i mean the code behind how you can use them and only one selectable point per time..... argh. It's a race i feel like im running with no track and just showing up as we continue.

~Darminian

Unless that top row of blank circles is a mistake or just a heading i think were leaving out 's' as a missing variable or a blank as established within the previous translation of those chars.

That being said,

V I B G Y O R

violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.

Just working on meanings behind letters, bear with me.

_  B N R Q K

_  - Now the blank in my mind is still S - but in regards to the board it's a pawn.

N - knight?

R - Rook, castle.

Q - Queen

K - King

It's in that regard that i feel the grid below depends on the selection of the right piece, thus limiting ourselves to the colors red, or blue. The others being fun and happy....but irrelevant. And as ironic as it may seem, perhaps we should play the pawn to avoid being it.

I'm still toying with the bloody hex - esque 64 code that's on the primary node, but im not getting anywhere solid with it, save for the awkward number grid that just doesn't hit me as anything.

- another chess note is the piece count:

4 blue pawns
2 red pawns

0 red knights
0 blue knights

1 blue rook
1 red rook

0 blue bishop
1 red bishop

1 blue queen
1 red queen

1 red king
1 blue queen

The pawns and bishop are the only ones that differ - my guess would be bishop over pawn but whose to say.

~Darminian

I was wondering if perhaps the base 64 encrypted message from the primary node might need a key to decrypt it.

Also, we really haven't talked here about the symbology of this last puzzle. Joker though tells us every time we make a wrong move. "in this struggle between machine and man, you are nothing more than a pawn". this seems to parallel the current situation in the matrix.  white being the machines(or big blue) and black being the humans(kasparov). The machines have us on the ropes and there seems to be no way for us to win. so it seems like we are in the same situation as kasparov, look to continue and find a way to win or produce a draw, or resign. Are there any options black could do in this chess situation besides resign? can black cheat? could that be what emergency protocol 19 means? Should we resign this match and hope to win the next one?

I was wondering if perhaps the base 64 encrypted message from the primary node might need a key to decrypt it.

Also, we really haven't talked here about the symbology of this last puzzle. Joker though tells us every time we make a wrong move. "in this struggle between machine and man, you are nothing more than a pawn". this seems to parallel the current situation in the matrix.  white being the machines(or big blue) and black being the humans(kasparov). The machines have us on the ropes and there seems to be no way for us to win. so it seems like we are in the same situation as kasparov, look to continue and find a way to win or produce a draw, or resign. Are there any options black could do in this chess situation besides resign? can black cheat? could that be what emergency protocol 19 means? Should we resign this match and hope to win the next one?

What happen to the 01mainframe? did someone press the button??

Im receiving a Suspend page!

Too many time passes from last vital signs.... i think someone solve the puzzle.....

Has anybody been able to crack the Base64 stuff ? ... If not I suppose we need to start brainstorming a bit.

The numeric grid revealed after a base 64 decrypt suggests to me some sort of grid type cipher.. the fact that there are no zeros is significant as is the fact that the digits go from 1 to 9.... Does one cipher number represent one plain text character or do a pair of numbers generate a single plain text character?  The fact that there is no 0 probably rules out a straddling checkerboard cipher... and the range of digits rules out a bifid cipher.

Here is a number frequency count for the Merovingian cipher text

Single digit frequencies

    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9

  105  119  121  117  106   99  100  129  104

Double digit frequencies as read left to right ....top to bottom

   Tens   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   <- unit digit

=====================================================

    1  :  3    5   12    7    1    5    5    2    2

    2  : 12    3    7    6    3    5    7   12    2

    3  :  8   12    5   11    6    3    1   10    4

    4  :  6    5    6    8    4    5    5    8    5

    5  :  5    8    7   11    8    3    7    6    4    there are 4 59's in the Merovingian cipher text

    6  :  4    8    5    2    2    8    4    8    4

    7  :  9    6    5    3   10    9    2    9    8

    8  :  5   10    7   11    5    9    1    6    4

    9  : 11    5    7    6    8    7    7   10    5

Strayshot shared with me the thought that the individual cipher texts probably are about the

individual in whose section they are found .. Therefore it is highly likely that each block

probably contains the name of the person in question ... This could be used as a "crib" to help

break the code once somebody figures out which encryption algorithm is being used.  

Thats all for now,

Con

01mainframe is back!

or better... not the entire site....

You think that is refering to the 991 puzzle? I thought it was refering to the current situation with the morpheus SIM, being as his head or thoughts may be the key to the rsi data.

 But I see what you are saying, it could also refer to the 991 puzzle. perhaps we shall see.

I think I had mentioned on a previous page that the characters listed with the colors were all pieces left on the board, but that was not correct, the b symbol(second row) or the bishops are not on the board. perhaps this is signifigant in some way.

I already tried black(red)bishop relocate the node with the word life in the text box. so I thought i'd throw this out there for everyone.

See new scanline for relevant information:

http://thematrixonline.station.sony...e/scanline.html

"Even in death, his head is the key. Who will be the first to unbolt the secret flood gates? So far none have. Maybe they've got it turned the wrong way."

See new scanline for relevant information:

http://thematrixonline.station.sony...e/scanline.html

"Even in death, his head is the key. Who will be the first to unbolt the secret flood gates? So far none have. Maybe they've got it turned the wrong way."

Bayamo wrote:

See new scanline for relevant information:

http://thematrixonline.station.sony...e/scanline.html

"Even in death, his head is the key. Who will be the first to unbolt the secret flood gates? So far none have. Maybe they've got it turned the wrong way."

Not sure, but I know Scanline does have a lot to do with 991. Perhaps this translation will help. I found it odd that the "e?" is missing in the binary to the right, but that might be a clue itself.

Looks like this is drifting off into obscurity once again.

I really would like to know what the Base64 stuff on the primary node translates into. The message may be the user manual for the Reboot UI uncovered by Pam and Addy or it may contain some interesting insights into the various heavy hitters in our little virtual world. Either way it would be interesting reading. So, although I have not had much success in breaking down the cipher, perhaps sharing my thinking might benefit some other operative out there. My pursuit of the truth in this matter has caused me to leave the service of Zion and strike out on my own.  To be true to this path I feel I still should continue to share my findings, help operatives of all organizations in need, and hope for the best.  

As has been mentioned before, the Base64 passages decrypt down to a stream of single, space separated digits. Digits 1 through 9 are present, there are no 0's in the cipher-text. This I feel is a significant clue as to the nature of this cipher. ASCII & EBCDIC substitutions, stream addition (Solitaire) and XOR ciphers are likely to result in at least a few zeros.

Another interesting fact is that each of the five Base64 code blocks, decrypt into exactly 1000 digits. Now 1000 is 10 cubed. Factoring further we have 1000 equals 2 cubed times 5 cubed. It is also interesting to note the each message lists an error code of 27 which is 3 cubed. 

Operatives will note that I performed a Frequency Analysis on the Merovingian code block. First I assumed that the code is like a  telephone type code except the digits correspond to different sets of characters then those on a normal telephone.  In principle and on average, one can arrange the letters in such a manner as to even out the frequency distribution. This seems to be the case given the relative flatness of the single digit frequency distribution posted several entries back. The thing here is it should be a simple matter to find a pattern from the Crib "The Merovingian" and break down the message that way.  I have not had much luck with this approach.

Another cipher involving single digit cipher-text is something based on Numerology. One would assign the letters a number starting with A=1, B=2 and so on up to Z=26. One then adds two digits numbers together (multiple times if necessary like for 19 which gives 1+9=10 and then 1+0=1) so that the code is reduced to a single non zero digit .... Z for instance would become 2+6=8. One might expect that this approach would not produce such a flat spectrum. I also didn't get very far with this. One should note that there are other ways numerologists assign numbers to letters that I did not explore.  Either way, it really doesn't matter how the letters were assigned, a trial and error substitution relying on the crib should sort this all out.

The problem with these single digit codes is that it requires a bit more work on the part of the intended recipient to decrypt the message then a standard substitution cipher as for each number there are multiple letters that can be substituted so the correct choice is dependent upon the juxtaposition of the choices for each cipher digit.

Given the problems with the single digit ciphers .. I started looking at two digit ciphers.. I found the fact that the Primary node started off with a quote from "The Art of War" and Book 1 of "Endymion" was perhaps a hint that some sort of Beale Cipher was in use. The two digits corresponded to the line number and word in the indicated passage. Unfortunately, when I did the two-digit frequency analysis of the Merovingian coded text it disclosed that all two digit possibilities from 11 to 99 (excluding those with 0) were present in the cipher-text. It turned out that in "Endymion" there are not always at least nine words in a line.  

The bifid cipher came up in my research but that was immediately rejected as it only had a cipher alphabet composed of the digits 1 to 5. I also came across the straddling checkerboard cipher, which is usually based on the digits 0-9, but a slight stretch of the imagination could see a cipher alphabet using 1-9 working as well.  The checkerboard also has the attribute of flattening out the letter frequency count which seemed to be the case with the Merovingian code block. This cipher is sort of a hybrid between a 1 digit and 2 digit cipher. In the end I rejected it as to far-fetched an idea.

With my good friend Google helping me search I eventually came across the Grand Pre Cipher. This is a homophonetic cipher that allows for different substitutions for a given plain text character.  It usually involves a cipher alphabet of the digits 1-8, but cipher alphabets of 1-9 and 0-9 are also possible.  In the case of the 1-9 cipher-alphabet, the key is a list of nine nine-letter words. These words are placed in a 9x9 grid and the row number and column number of a given plain text letter form the cipher text for that letter. I thought that I had the answer, but alas in playing with the Merovingian Code block I could not make any headway using "TheMerovingian" as a crib. In my attack on the code I assumed that adjacent digits in the code stream were the Cipher alphabet to use. Alas this went no where..... and I developed a sneaking suspicion that the code stream needed to be transformed in some manner to yield the correct order of cipher-text row/column pairs. Considering the cubic factors found associated with  the code block, I thought, one was supposed to arrange the data in 10 x 10 blocks and stack them 10 high and then read the faces vertically. It was a very dejecting thought, and basically caused me to give up hope of solving the problem. The obscurity of the problem just was overwhelming.

Now that we have an apparent hint in the latest scanline broadcast, I indeed see that a digit stream transposition is probably the case. I believe that the the Rubic Cube Invisible man image contained in the X=-963 data node is what the broadcast is referring too. If you examine the head closely you will see that the head is composed of and array of smaller cubes. Given the factoring I described above I believe that small cubes are groups of 2x2x2 characters. Each of these cubes is arranged in a 5x5x5 super cube which makes up the Invisible Man's head.  This would sufficiently scramble the digit stream so as to make the correct order of the digits hard to recreate.  I see further evidence for the Grand Pre cipher in that there are 9 pictograms (corresponding to the 9 key words of the Grand Pre Cipher) surrounding the Invisible Agent. The purple Triangle for instance may correspond to the Azimuth Monument with the purple line leading out of the Matrix into the Various Archives.  Now usually only 9 letter words are used in Grand Pre .. so that is a possible weakness of this interpretation, but then again a phase could also work to fill in the keyword slot with extra letters ignored.

What this means to me is that we need to break the Coded digit stream into 8 digit groups and orient them into the 8 corners of a 2x2x2 cube. Off hand I can think of 14 different ways to do this. One then needs to line up the 2x2x2 cubes into a 5x5x5 array of cubes to form the head.  Then one reads off the digit stream from the layers of this super cube, uses the passwords from the pictographs to perform the substitutions and reveal the message. All rather complicated and much too much work for me to devote time to, given that it may be completely off in left field and not even close to what needs to be done, but .. nobody else has posted a better idea .. so there it is, if for nothing else your amusement and example of the wishful thinking a human mind is capable of.  

Another interesting thing about the Invisible Man's Head is the left face of the cube. If you count the squares you will note that they are 6 rows deep for at least 4 columns of the head ... with a little imagination one can extrapolate a 7x6 array in the head based on this. Now in the UI revealed by Pam and Addy underneath the chess cube there is a 7x6 rainbow array of chess pieces. Our task is to pick one to activate the maintenance procedure.  I am suggesting that the Joker logo indicates the choice one needs to make in the rainbow array. Please note that next to the Joker is a checkerboard pattern in red and black, which also might be an alternate pointer or clue.

I always wondered about the symbolic significance of the Rainbow chess pieces on the death page. Much to my surprise a search on Rainbow lead me to the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior which in turn lead to a search on "Warriors of the Rainbow".  The result is a Cree Prophecy told by an old lady named "Eyes of Fire" (an Oracle analog?).  The prophecy is about a time in the future when through the greed of Man the World would fall sick. She went on to predict that a group called the Warriors of the Rainbow would arise and unite the peoples from all corners of the Earth teaching them the ways of Unity, Love and Understanding and ultimately cure the ails of the World. It sounds kind of familiar given the polarized state of affairs we find ourselves in, and certainly suggests a path to redemption of the world through joint action of all three organizations, who finally cast aside their differences and work for a better future.  ((Now this may all be coincidence, but imagine my surprise on finding this prophecy after having walked away from Zion and the other organizations and grinding until I had at least -126 rep in all three orgs.  My only regret is I can not found a faction called "Warriors of the Rainbow" given my minimum reputations and start a grass roots organization that will work for peace. A neat personal outcome for a player event regardless if it finishes or not))

Well for what it is worth, that is my theory, on the decryption of the Primary Node coded passages. I believe that in those coded passages a description of "Emergency Protocol 19" is provided and the key word needed to resolve the final fate of 991 is provided.

While it is clear that the operatives on Syntax where able to block the maintenance cycle on their instance, it is equally clear that the operatives on Recursion did not. One would assume that 991 retains some of the system knowledge that the deletion of all the data nodes was supposed to affect. Perhaps just enough information from the data nodes was deleted so that 991 can not decrypt the primary node information and start it's reboot process on it's own and the ultimate fate of 991 is truly in our hands... Good luck to my friends and Good luck to my enemies.

Working Toward Unity,

Con

Wow... this sounds like it was some event. to bad i wasn't acvtive then...but...

I never noticed anyone else post this, so im going to now, may be way irrelevant at this point. It comes form putting together all the missing letters in the following link, form the original psot by Tyndall. Im obviously missing letters and even words, but it may be moot anyway

http://01mainframe.com/bq142p/scan_...ence_5.991.html

"doing a little light reading convenient ho(w?)(first letter of olfe)ed he files on the (exorchinc?) ident and the Bandernatch went missing infinte dt nighted"

probly not helpful to anyone at this point, but there it is...

Edit: D'OH! Just realized the decyption of this is right under the link to it in the first place >.< *sticks head back in sand and pretends not to notice people rolling their eyes*

Edit: D'OH! Just realized the decyption of this is right under the link to it in the first place >.< *sticks head back in sand and pretends not to notice people rolling their eyes*

8^O!!! and here I'm about to check something from those old files and see If my hunch is correct in decrypting them.

Many are still following this, any new clues are appreciated.

Oh how very interesting. We should keep CoffinsNail under watch, He may be part of 991's reimergemce if his primary node is still intact.

Hmm I wonder if 991 Is incorporated into CoffinsNail? The whole suicide trick was TheJokerofSpades favorite manuver.

Elephant Gambit

I finally got around to doing the Chessman's new mission the other day. I was startled to see the mission
name as it sparked some old memories. Consider these pictures from the days of Joker lore.

http://z11.01mainframe.com/sk397m/t...93_files/04.jpg

http://z11.01mainframe.com/sk397m/t...25_files/26.png

One of the loose ends in the Joker node search were the three Leigh Lines that did not terminate in a Node.
One of these lines happens to run through Tabor Park. Another runs through Camon Heights and into Eschean
Projects. The third was in downtown and ran off the map into Creston Heights.

Last night I revisited the Pamela feed and verified my Leigh line data. I was chagrined to learn that I had
recorded the Downtown Leigh line incorrectly having made a significant error in the X vector component of the
Hampton Green #3 Leigh Line. After correction this Leigh Line now converges at the Torah Construction Node at
1 time units. There is still a bit of an anomaly in the Outgoing frequency however. In all other cases the
outgoing frequency of the Leigh Line was an even multiple of of the Node's Query Frequency. The Hampton Green
3 Leigh Line does not factor in a manner consistent with the a Query frequency of 21.8925 for the -769,30,550
node. Seems Pamela might have made an error in recording an outgoing freq of 4351.7475.

Given that Pamela is capable of error perhaps the Tabor Park 1 Prime line should have terminated in the
Camon Height's Church Node. This particular target was of a deleted Joker. Which minutes before had
been alive and well and allowed a precise triangulation to the church and a location in Roger's Way.
There is that pesky business of the strange outgoing frequency of the Tabor Park 1 Prime line as well.

That leaves the line running to the NNE from Mara into Tabor Park and out into the Aquaduct.
The Leigh Line vectors are all correctly recorded and the possible node locations correctly plotted.
The outgoing frequency also doesn't correlate with any of the other known nodes.

This may all be a coincidence.  But then again in the Matrix is there any such thing? What does Sammy Wein
know and does in pertain to the return of the Joker? My recon of the building containing "The Vault" turned up nada.

Inquiring minds want to know !

Con

Speaking of chessboards, still waiting on this bad boy.

So did anyone Actually ever get to the bottom of this? I've been trying to read up on it all but the content and information listed (not to mention stuff that people havent posted) is extensive.

No plans to pick up another attempt to crack it?

Nothing's going to happen since the Joker's dead... so here's the death answer, from this Joker node.

"Kaput! Knight to Red 17!"

Pick the red knight, aka RN.png. Archived image unavailable: RN.html The password is 17.

The form sends a mail to

[email protected]

which, of course, has never replied.