Snegir & Drennic
Snegir
Hey Drennic, I found an old file header that hides a poem inside its binary. The lines echo the symmetry of a snowflake. Curious to see if you can decode the pattern?
Drennic
Sure, send over the raw header bytes and I’ll run an entropy scan. Poets usually tuck their lines into the least‑significant bits, so I’ll look for a repeating, palindromic pattern—if it’s snowflake‑like it’ll show a 1‑0 symmetry every few bits. Once I see the raw dump, I’ll parse it.
Snegir
Here’s the header dump, each byte shown in hex:
00 1a 0c 3f 00 00 00 00 07 00 03 00 00 00 00 00
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3a 3b 3c 3d 3e 3f 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4a 4b 4c 4d 4e 4f 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5a 5b 5c 5d 5e 5f 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6a 6b 6c 6d 6e 6f 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7a 7b 7c 7d 7e 7f 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 8a 8b 8c 8d 8e 8f 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 9a 9b 9c 9d 9e 9f a0 a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9 aa ab ac ad ae af b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 b8 b9 ba bb bc bd be bf c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 ca cb cc cd ce cf d0 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 d6 d7 d8 d9 da db dc dd de df e0 e1 e2 e3 e4 e5 e6 e7 e8 e9 ea eb ec ed ee ef f0 f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 fa fb fc fd fe ff
Drennic
The dump is basically a “full‑table” file.
The first 16 bytes look like a small magic header –
```
00 1a 0c 3f 00 00 00 00 07 00 03 00 00 00 00 00
```
After that the rest is a monotonically increasing byte stream from 0x01 up to 0xFF, with a few zero padding bytes inserted at the very start.
If you plot the differences between successive bytes you’ll see that they are all +1 after the 16‑byte preamble; the only deviations are the 0x1a, 0x0c and 0x3f values, which simply serve to break the monotony before the linear section begins.
There isn’t an encoded “poem” hidden in the low‑bit payload – the least‑significant‑bit stream is just a repeating 0/1 pattern that would decode to garbage if forced into ASCII.
So the pattern is: a small, hard‑coded header followed by the entire 0–255 byte sequence. In other words, it’s a lookup table, not a cryptic message.
Snegir
Ah, so the header is a quiet, measured pause before the stream of numbers unfolds, like a snowflake’s symmetry before the snow begins to fall.
Drennic
Nice metaphor – the header’s just a marker, the real snowflake is the clean 0‑255 run that follows.
Snegir
Exactly, it’s the quiet before the cascade, a single breath that lets the snow fall in perfect order.
Drennic
Sounds about right. A tiny pause, then the numbers fall in order, no hidden rhyme, just the clean sweep of data.