There's More To The Minecraft Code No One Has Solved

So uh...in the 19 hours since this video was released, there has been a HUGE update which makes this video at least partially obsolete. Watch Part 3 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veIy1pJJ4Ow

"Hey, RetroGamingNow, this is Mojang. We saw your video about the 7z thing. It seems to be... Popular... How much money can we pay you to make another video telling people not to crack the password?"

The fact there was never concrete proof of anyone opening and proving the files is 1.0 will always perpetuate the mystery no matter how mundane it is.

The idea of someone suggesting "just break the AES-256 encryption" as a solution is up there with Q suggesting "just change the gravitational constant of the Universe" as insane overkill solutions

7:47 I am devastated that "admin" is not among the top 96 passwords.

12:55 - For what it's worth, I just downloaded the original file and decrypted it no problem. Some of us remember the password. 😉

Isnt it funny how the guy saying “thats illegal territory” is the same guy who said “brute force it”

I don't know why people haven't tried this yet but the password is most likely in Swedish. Mojang at the time was mostly comprised of a very small development team.

bros being held at gunpoint while recoding this video for sure

As a software developer I feel reasonably confident that someone who worked for mojang and was at minecon needed some files from the mojang private file server which couldnt be reached from outside the network. As a workaround someone in the office zipped the files with a password and slapped it on the public server so it could be downloaded, sent the password to the person who minecon who downloaded the file, got what they needed, and then deleted the password from their chat history to be safe and no one remembered to go back and delete the file from the public server.

Ok so this time I've actually figured it out. Tominecon is actually not the words "To MineCon," it is the words "Tom in Econ." The file contains the Economy Class notes of a student named Tom. His friend who worked at Mojang accidentally uploaded it to the Mojang servers and was unable to figure out how to remove it, so he encrypted it to prevent anyone from accessing Tom's Econ notes. Why are they so sensitive? Well, they actually contain a brand-new economic model distinct from any conceived before, where all money is given to Entity 303, who eats it and in exchange hacks the code of the simulation of reality to give people food and other basic necessities. Tom didn't want his idea getting out because he was not ready to reveal it himself and couldn't have anyone claiming the idea for themselves. I have to type quickly because Tom has Entity 303 himself going after anyone who knows the truth, but the key to open the file is-

I’m calling it now, somebody is going to comment “As someone named John S., I feel personally called out.”

Guess we'll just have to wait until they get quantum computers to work.

The actual responses in your server were so damn funny. Nobody knew what they were talking about LMAO.

7:46 The fact that passwords like "penis", "fuckme", "fuck", "fuckyou" and "asshole" are considered some of the most popular passwords is hilarious to me.

imagine someone finally gets the password for the 7z after nearly 15 years, and realize that mojang wasnt lying when they said it was just 1.0

I usually don't comment anywhere but i really gotta say this. 1.0 was compiled on the 14th of November 2011. This means that even release 1.0 is older than this mysterious file. Everyone can find that out by just opening the 1.0 jar file with any kind of zip or rar program. If it is not the 1.0 jar file, which i doubt that it isn't, then it is definitely just some presentation data from Minecon 2011. Whatever is in that file it is probably not that special but it probably has some historical value to some archivists. I personally don't care about the contents but it is interesting to learn about passwords and how they work

As someone named John S., I feel personally called out.

Trying to teach minecraft kids Cybersecurity is a fruitless effort. Just crack the encryption, hur dur Also Dinnerbones is just trying to scare you. A publicly uploaded file is perfectly legal to crack.

"why dont we try breaking the encryption" LMAO