Decompression still not reached, maybe bifurcation was a red herring.
If it is possible to access this data, no one will work harder than
I.  I'm still confident.  The data is working as a motivator, as
expected :)

Thanks everyone, for your polite comments.  I think the takeaway from
this for all of us is that voices have been heard on both sides in
this thread illustrating the healthy debate among experts on whether
random data can be compressed.