New recording: O Magnum Mysterium

[lel-bot]

• Name of the original music: O Magnum Mysterium

• Author of the orginal music: Brian Schmidt

• Link to the original score: Unmodified: https://www.jwpepper.com/O-Magnum-Mysterium/10303902.item#/submit, modified: O magnum blob.zip

• Link to the recording: https://g.co/arts/8VGdX1SGjm2Tzyee7

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🙏 Thank you very much, @lel-bot! I've added it to the main README.md along with the other samples.

[0x2b3bfa0]

👋 Hello again, @lel-bot!

It looks like your GitHub account was created ex profeso for submitting this recording, but most of the people with enough skills to use this project should already have one. 🤔 My divergent mind led me to believing that your contribution might be part of some elaborate joke, so here you're the opportunity of proving that I'm right:

Parum premunt revelare modicum mysterium...

Encryption

The following messages have been encrypted with age using your last name in lowercase as the password. If you're able to decrypt any of them with a single try... magnum mysterium solvitur. 😅

First option

age --decrypt <<END
-----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----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-----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
END

Second option

age --decrypt <<END
-----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----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-----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE----- 
END

If I was wrong, please forgive me. I assume the risk of spooking you with my security-minded pastimes because I had good reasons to believe that I could be right.

Anyhow, I appreciate a lot your contribution. 🎉

[lel-bot]

Well here's a funny story,

I got into python, like, a couple weeks ago, and luckily your program is very easy to use, so my recently created account is simply a result of these two things.

I was initially looking at these messages in gmail, so the encrypted text was double spaced, so to speak. I had to encrypt a couple files myself to figure out that there isn't supposed to be any spaces between lines.

Alas, I can't decrypt the files. I'm not sure what you think my "last name in all lowercase" is, but it appears our definitions differ lol.

Thanks again for featuring me. I mostly made the blobs sing it because I really like the piece and wanted to hear it again in more than 96kbps on some YT upload, and spotted that I could submit it, so I did on a whim.

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First of all, sorry for the major blunder and welcome to GitHub! 🎉 It was a false positive due to a unusual chain of coincidences.

Actually, I wrote this project approximately four months ago with the sole purpose of hiding some messages for a friend with some undocumented steganography techniques, but I finally got carried away and chose to repurpose it for more general use cases.

With a newly created account and a title like O Magnum Mysterium, I couldn't help but think that it was him challenging me back with more hidden data. Moreover, I also used this project yesterday as a documentation example when talking to a developer who, coincidentally, has an academic background related to music and audio research. As you can guess, I wouldn't be surprised at all if both of them decided to contribute a song in the last 24 hours. 😈

I got into python, like, a couple weeks ago, and luckily your program is very easy to use, so my recently created account is simply a result of these two things.

Glad to read that! For me, ease of use appreciations are very high on the scale of compliments. 😊

I was initially looking at these messages in gmail, so the encrypted text was double spaced, so to speak. I had to encrypt a couple files myself to figure out that there isn't supposed to be any spaces between lines.

Alas, I can't decrypt the files. I'm not sure what you think my "last name in all lowercase" is, but it appears our definitions differ lol.

Effectively, you weren't any of the usual suspects; sorry for the blunder. 🙈

Thanks again for featuring me. I mostly made the blobs sing it because I really like the piece and wanted to hear it again in more than 96kbps on some YT upload, and spotted that I could submit it, so I did on a whim.

🙏 Thank you very much again for your contribution! It sounds really well, at least for the blob opera standards. 👂 👍

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@lel-bot, I've spent a few minutes documenting the rudiments of blob opera steganography for the sake of completeness. 😸 I was unable to find the right moment to sit down and document everything, and you gave me a good reason to do it.

python-blobopera/documentation/steganography/README.md

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# Protocol Buffer Steganography