Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
#2Love this, absolutely looking forward to some results.
Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
#3If only Base64 had used a checksum.
Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
#4This one is irresistible to play with. Indeed a nerd snipe.
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#5Why not just try every permutation of (1,l)? Let’s see, 76 pages, approx 69 lines per page, say there’s one instance of [1l] per line, that’s only… uh… 2^5244 possibilities…
Hmm. Anyone got some spare CPU time?
Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
#6Why not just try every permutation of (1,l)? Let’s see, 76 pages, approx 69 lines per page, say there’s one instance of [1l] per line, that’s only… uh… 2^5244 possibilities… Hmm. Anyone got some spare CPU time?
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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
#7> it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this
Or worse. She did.
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#9This one is irresistible to play with. Indeed a nerd snipe.
I doubt the PDF would be very interesting. There are enough clues in the human-readable parts: it's an invite to a benefit event in New York (filename calls it DBC12) that's scheduled on December 10, 2012, 8pm... Good old-fashioned searching could probably uncover what DBC12 was, although maybe not, it probably wasn't a public event.
The recipient is also named in there...
Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
#10It decodes to binary pdf and there are only so many valid encodings. So this is how I would solve it.
1. Get an open source pdf decoder
2. Decode bytes up to first ambiguous char
3. See if next bits are valid with an 1, if not it’s an l
4. Might need to backtrack if both 1 and l were valid
By being able to quickly try each char in the middle of the decoding process you cut out the start time. This makes it feasible to test all permutations automatically and linearly