Cicada 3301 2016 Message
Cicada's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/1231507051321
Cicada twitter posted https://twitter.com/1231507051321/status/684596461628223488 which leads to
Important note: What was believed to be a "dendrite" is actually an oak tree, as revealed by a Google search for "dead oak tree clipart". (http://www.clipartbest.com/cliparts/abc/y97/abcy97qTL.jpeg)
- Please note, the blocks in the background are noise from the image compression, not a QR code.
- The image size is 563 x 569 (both primes).
The following test is produced by running Outguess:
Likely only clue in message = 'numbers are the direction.' but this is still possible just 3301 way of speaking and not a clue.
If you verify the PGP key using GPG you get:
gpg: Signature made Thu 31 Dec 2015 07:01:07 PM EST using RSA key ID 7A35090F gpg: Good signature from "Cicada 3301 (845145127)" gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. Primary key fingerprint: 6D85 4CD7 9333 22A6 01C3 286D 181F 01E5 7A35 090F
GP Sum Analysis
A discord user did an analysis on the 2016 message contents and found that if you shift the F at the end of the message to the beginning, you get some interesting Fibonacci prime values. The character F has been used as an interrupter by Cicada 3301 previously, making its shift to the beginning less arbitrary.
Fibonacci | Prime Index | Prime | Message GP Sums |
0 | 464 | 3301 | |
1 | 463 | 3299 | |
1 | 462 | 3271 | |
2 | 460 | 3257 | |
3 | 457 | 3229 | |
5 | 452 | 3191 | |
8 | 444 | 3119 | |
13 | 431 | 3001 | 2016, Sentences 1-3, +F |
21 | 410 | 2819 | 2016, Sentence 4 |
34 | 376 | 2579 | 2016, Remainder, -F |
55 | 321 | 2131 | 2017 message |
89 | 232 | 1459 | |
144 | 88 | 457 |
Italicized numbers are GP sums of the 2016 and 2017 messages
More of his analysis can be found here, with the raw data here. Due do mediawiki constraints, I have to link to them but I strongly recommend you view them yourself because it also includes analysis of the 2017 message. This analysis furthers the commonly held belief that encryption methods are applied to whole sections and not just individual pages. It also suggests that sections are treated not as a linear string, but as a ring/loop(see linked document for more details). When the 2016 and 2017 messages are broken down into sections and analyzed based on rune count, GP sum, and prime index there are interesting patterns when compared to the Fibonacci sequence.
Message | Sentences | Rune count | GP sum | Prime index |
2016 | 1 - 3 | 59 | 2999 | 430 |
2016 | 4 | 59 | 2819 | 410 |
2016 | Remainder | 59 | 2581 | - |
2017 | 1 - 2 | 45 | 2131 | 321 |
Italicized numbers are GP sums of messages, italicized and bold are just prime numbers
The message can be cleanly broken up into three sections of 59 runes, with sentence 4 and the remainder also being 59 runes if you include the A and F of the PGP key. There is also a layering of primes in the 4th sentence.
Sentence Section | Prime Value | Rune count |
---|---|---|
Its words are the map, their meaning is the road, and their numbers are the direction | 2819 | 59 |
their meaning is the road, and their numbers are the direction | 2039 | 43 |
and their numbers are the direction | 1277 | 27 |
59 is the 17th prime number. Some people refer to the page that hashes to [...] as the 59th "missing" page, which may be significant as some believe it to be referenced in this message. Or not, but this is one of the few analysis that have granted any useful insight into these messages.
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