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From: Skybuck Flying on 24 Jan 2010 13:17

"Paulo Marques" <pmarques(a)grupopie.com> wrote in message
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>
> As unruh pointed out a Caesar cypher is weak and with a short key is
> even weaker. From a quick "paper and pencil" analysis the secret seems
> to be "Warpig".

You are correct, you shall receive +5 points ! ;)

How did you do it ? ;) :)

> These games are kind of pointless from a cryptography point of view, but
> I've seen worst posts on sci.crypt...

I wanna see if you guys can crack it... for now it was easy... I just wanna
make sure I cover the basics ! ;)

Hopefully the next cipher will again be a littttttttle bit more difficult
and then hopefully you will squeek a bit ! ;) :)

Bye,
Skybuck ;) :) =DD


From: Paulo Marques on 24 Jan 2010 16:53
Skybuck Flying wrote:
> How did you do it ? ;) :)

Easy: the "space" character is quite common and is the lowest ascii
character that you'll probably use. Taking the lowest values as meaning
the space character catching different key positions, you can deduce the
key size of 6.

If you write the characters in sequence with 6 characters per line, then
each column represents a different addition with a single character of
the key. The lowest number on each column represents "space", so just
subtract 0x20 to get the corresponding key character. I didn't actually
decrypt the message, but that would be trivial once I've found the key...

--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

I have not yet begun to procrastinate
From: unruh on 24 Jan 2010 19:20
On 2010-01-24, Skybuck Flying <IntoTheFuture(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Paulo Marques" <pmarques(a)grupopie.com> wrote in message
> news:wuWdnSZ8o-zL5sHWnZ2dnUVZ8kKdnZ2d(a)novis.pt...
>>
>> As unruh pointed out a Caesar cypher is weak and with a short key is
>> even weaker. From a quick "paper and pencil" analysis the secret seems
>> to be "Warpig".
>
> You are correct, you shall receive +5 points ! ;)
>
> How did you do it ? ;) :)
>
>> These games are kind of pointless from a cryptography point of view, but
>> I've seen worst posts on sci.crypt...
>
> I wanna see if you guys can crack it... for now it was easy... I just wanna
> make sure I cover the basics ! ;)
>
> Hopefully the next cipher will again be a littttttttle bit more difficult
> and then hopefully you will squeek a bit ! ;) :)

Put up a 1000 or 1000000 dollar prize and you might get some takers. Why
in the world should anyone do your work for you?
A good cryptography creator has to also be a good breaker, to know what
weaknesses to avoid.


>
> Bye,
> Skybuck ;) :) =DD
>
>
From: Skybuck Flying on 25 Jan 2010 06:20

"unruh" <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message
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Are you the "umrah" from the Thundercats here to torment me ? ;)

Bye,
Skybuck =D


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