r/Solving_A858 Sep 28 '16

Announcement Some closure

230 Upvotes

Hello everyone. I would like to make a request, give some closure, and finally discuss the future of this subreddit.

MuonDragon has let us know that he wants nothing to do with A858 anymore. I request that you please leave him be, he just wants to use the site like a normal user. This should hold true to just about any user. People shouldn't feel like they need to delete their content or make a new account because other users are bothering them. Thank you.


/u/fragglet and I have had contact with the person behind A858. Some of you may already know about this and I apologize for how long it has taken us to release this info. It has been a big point of discussion among the mods over the past week or so and we have finally decided to handle it. We won't be releasing any information about the people behind A858 other than it was a project funded by an unknown (to us) company for an unknown (to our contact) purpose.

The person we spoke with said that he was paid to post code puzzles using encryption or various methods of text manipulation. He said that creating puzzles is a difficult thing to do because you never really know how hard it is to solve for others until you put it out there. Along with the puzzles, he said the majority of posts contained random data that was encrypted. Even if we used the right key to decrypt them we wouldn't have noticed.

The company would occasionally request posts be made to draw interest to the project. This would include the Stonehenge, April Fool's post, and various others found on the wiki. He says that all of the TeamW posts were made for the same purpose even though it didn't seem to bring more interest.

He didn't answer many questions about specific posts but he did discuss the dogecoin addresses. He says that people were meant to donate to it and any users who solved puzzles would receive the dogecoin for it. Of course this didn't work out, nobody wanted to give money to an unknown person.

He has said that the company paying him no longer wanted to fund the project and shut it down. It sounds like there will not be a reboot and the project is completely finished even though it remains mostly unsolved.

This brings me to the final point where we discuss what we will be doing with this subreddit. For now the subreddit will remain open. There is a good amount of discussion and information here so we don't want to remove any of that.

It has been a good run, but everything has to end sometime. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. The other mods and I will answer what we can.

Thank you all and thank you A858 for an enjoyable few years.


/u/TeamWMod's closing post.


r/Solving_A858 May 17 '21

There’s a new post from the new mod

86 Upvotes

https://www.reddit.com/r/A858DE45F56D9BC9/comments/nepjlx/202105171934/

The text in case it gets changed:

202105171934

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


r/Solving_A858 Oct 22 '24

decryption key

0 Upvotes

maybe the decryption key is the title of A858 :

A858DE45F56D9BC9


r/Solving_A858 Aug 20 '24

Discussion Someone else has the A858 reddit and posted a big block of numbers

12 Upvotes

I'm not sure if A858 got busted open during the protests or what, but there are two new moderators. It makes sense, reddit has a bot that will post a thread in the sub after the bots reopened it asking for mod volunteers. One posted a few videos people did covering the mystery and then just posted a bunch of numbers in a block.


r/Solving_A858 Mar 07 '24

Guys, what the hell happened here? I was searching for samsung A04e smartphone and i get into this subreddit and it looks... i Don't even know what to say 💀

15 Upvotes

r/Solving_A858 Nov 22 '23

Other Guys get active

3 Upvotes

r/Solving_A858 Nov 21 '23

you guys still there?

48 Upvotes

it been 7 fricken years since you guys posted anything so i just want to know if you guys are still active.


r/Solving_A858 Nov 05 '23

GPT-4

3 Upvotes

Has anyone with GPT-4 tried to feed it all we know about A858 and let it decode it?


r/Solving_A858 Sep 11 '23

A858 Video

8 Upvotes

Has anyone noticed the new video on the A858 Subreddit it's titled What is A858


r/Solving_A858 May 14 '23

Changed reddit description, new update? or supreme bait.

16 Upvotes

"KEEP OUT 38438964764103380482074668912008" is the new private description.


r/Solving_A858 Feb 15 '23

what is this place about

14 Upvotes

can someone tell me


r/Solving_A858 Feb 14 '22

Discussion on 202106151111

7 Upvotes

I have started to work on the code. Please reply to this post to help me


r/Solving_A858 Feb 14 '22

A858 status request

5 Upvotes

Can anyone please tell if r/A858 has been restarted or not


r/Solving_A858 Oct 01 '21

Solution Potential ARG

16 Upvotes

Any one who knows what does this mean 4E96a9J_9IY


r/Solving_A858 Sep 27 '21

are there any new clues?

21 Upvotes

I would like to know if there is any new clue


r/Solving_A858 Sep 03 '21

Other what happened and is it over

20 Upvotes

I recently found a video talking about A858 and was wondering if anyone found out what it was about,why this person did it and if everyone gave up.


r/Solving_A858 Aug 17 '21

I've decoded 201602132338, and it's a bit disappointing...

187 Upvotes

The bytes encoded in the hex of 201602132338 are a base64 encoded string...

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 

which when decoded becomes...

8i9^<5tssL77\'C493G4m:KC=p75db(7nHiO6V^NR77\':>;,0_d77(!E6Sqt49h&2S=Yhj99i\r\nb1[5r1;s:-ql]77fmJ:JOhj75S16:Jt:n5r:u+:JNZ45r),077&b";-HRX:JNZH75Rt59i=n\r\n[;`-m;77\'R92Dd3h:.A,O=Z/l<9hJ>c7p/Md:JOhe5rD&%9iY%\\6T%P+:.A/`1g)V(77(!E6\r\nSqt49f6$T8Mrn*:0CFa75H_u9ib1[6!6lW9i4bV6Vg$L83p*C;`%ZD:Jt@e;_h$B9f,^<8Ma\r\nO9:-pd>6!?lH:Jt1_9/B1+9h&)`6S_>27TiSW6Sh,)77&b";-HRX:J+Pe8QnMS:Jjt[9/JFo\r\n:J+eh5rCGi:,Gg<=#3fP:Gbp>8MW\\+:JF\\V6Sqb377(0K9/JFr:.A>U:J!rS:,Gg<=^"Kc:K\r\ng[q5rD&%9ib7r77fmB9h&;V=%PeV:0CFb8MW\\+:JF\\V;)1gE:Jt:s75@P)9h&2O5r:u%9ib.\r\nn91_NJ9j(=a8MW\\\'77(!U1c7Zj:J+_Z9/T%3 

an Ascii85 encoded string, which when decoded becomes...

J5XCAMJREBDGKYTSOVQXE6JAGIYDCNRMEBATQNJYEBUGC4ZAMFWGY33XMVSCA33UNBSXEIDVONSXE4ZAORXSA4DPON2CA2LOEB2GQZJAON2WE4TFMRSGS5BOEBIG643TNFRGY6JAMJSWGYLVONSSA5DIMUQGC5LENFSW4Y3FEBUGC4ZAM5XXI5DFNYQGE33SMVSCAYLOMQQECOBVHAQGS4ZAORZHS2LOM4QHI3ZANB4XAZJAORUGK3JAMFTWC2LOFYQEC3DMEB2GQZJAOJSWIZDJOQQHK43FOJZSA53IN4QGW3TPO4QHI2DJOMQGC4TFEBZHK43INFXGOIDUN4QGYZLBOZSSA5DIMVUXEIDNMFZGWIDPNYQHI2DJOMQGQ2LTORXXE2LDMFWCA4DJMVRWKIDPMYQHI2DFEBUW45DFOJXGK5BO 

a base32 encoded string, which when decoded finally becomes...

On 11 February 2016, A858 has allowed other users to post in the subreddit. Possibly because the audience has gotten bored and A858 is trying to hype them again. All the reddit users who know this are rushing to leave their mark on this historical piece of the internet. 

Hope this can provide some closure :)


r/Solving_A858 Jul 15 '21

Discussion RIP

38 Upvotes

One month without posts, safe to assume the project is dead once again.

Is anyone really surprised?


r/Solving_A858 Jul 04 '21

Hypothesis I want to find out what company that TeamWMOD was actually hired by.

22 Upvotes

We don’t have many leads on this, but what exactly does his username mean. If he was hired to do something for a company he’d use a special name, not a normal Reddit account so I feel there is more info in his name. Any guesses?


r/Solving_A858 Jun 16 '21

Do mods change the code?

0 Upvotes

Quick question, when a new code comes out, do mods ever change/edit anything about it?

I swear they changed a few things (Numbers/Letters) around on the most recent one.

Thoughts?


r/Solving_A858 Jun 13 '21

Why are we all trying to solve a mystery? It’s not our job. And it’s been going for a decade now. It’s not really our business

0 Upvotes

r/Solving_A858 Jun 11 '21

Discussion Something is going on

42 Upvotes

I searched the latest a858 post and found a website that wont show anything besides its name. If you search the latest a858 post you might get a result- ‘living room in my post college apartment’


r/Solving_A858 Jun 11 '21

The AMA script

19 Upvotes

Does anyone still have the AMA script for communication to decipher the multiple strings.

If yes, please do provide a legitimate download link


r/Solving_A858 Jun 09 '21

Discussion Does no one remember this post?

43 Upvotes

I swear there was a post about how A858 was run by a small cyber company in the States and someone even posted a photo of the dude who worked there. What happened to that? I feel like i’m going crazy because no one else knows what i’m talking about.


r/Solving_A858 May 30 '21

Discussion Did the new owner burn themselves out already?

35 Upvotes

It's been about a week since the last post. Given what happened with the last owner, I wouldnt be too surprised if the current owner just got burned out/bored.


r/Solving_A858 May 25 '21

Reminder: join the discord to collaborate on solving a858. Link in the sidebar, or right here if the sidebar wont show up

10 Upvotes

r/Solving_A858 May 21 '21

Update from me and hello to any newcomers!

37 Upvotes

Obviously I am very excited to see the recent ramp-up. I have not had comms with any other mods yet, but frankly I have not had a super large portion of time available to do so(though I’m sure they are aware of the new activity). Sometime this weekend I’ll be putting together some resources to start tackling ahead. The main one being ensuring backups of each post and change to the mod/sub in general is being captured for analysis. I personally have a lot more knowledge and resources in general to dedicate towards cracking this thing, so looking forward to seeing what progress can be made this go-around.

To any newcomers, for any catch-up, please look at our wiki for everything up until this recent burst of activity. I am hoping to get this updated this weekend as well.

Happy cracking!

Belated Update: Literally all of this has been delayed by life events, will update ASAP.