Was this documentation public at the time? The pdf still does not document the instructions themselves.
It was public at least 4 years before he first announced his discovery:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140130160743/http://datasheets...
yes, AIS was known
sandsifter was lots of noisy PR, but no new encoding findings
It was public at least 4 years before he first announced his discovery:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140130160743/http://datasheets...