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Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!May 27

Mystery encryption key: p3s6v9y$B&E)H@Mc

Any idea where this comes from? There are a few web hits, including this list of similarly-shaped strings that includes it: https://pastebin.com/0UTJYhBA

It feels like it's some kind of poor rand() LCG-ish thing trivially converted to ASCII, but I'm really curious if anyone has a good guess.

A certain popular VTuber software uses it as an XOR pad obfuscation for its config files... (I derived it statistically, didn't look at the code)

1,000 128bit keys - Pastebin.com

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commdserv May 27

@lina Suggested by AI:
base85 encoded(but v not in base85, maybe z85)

I got to a website that encode/decode them: https://cryptii.com/pipes/ascii85-encoding/

Ascii85 / base85: Encode, decode and translate text online

Ascii85, also called Base85, is a form of binary-to-text encoding used to communicate arbitrary binary data over channels that were designed to carry only English language human-readable text.

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Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!May 27

@commdserv It's trivially not base85 because the list has characters out of range for that. It's also clearly following some kind of pattern in generation not explainable like that. It also doesn't match the z85 dictionary.

If I wanted the bullshit generation machine's opinion I'd have asked it myself, thanks.

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commdserv

@lina okay, sure. but maybe I don't have enough attention to notice that any char out of z85 dict...