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  • #48009
    10degrees-admin
    Keymaster

    Harry, Challenge 5B is surprisingly hard. I have calculated the ioc and then tried to put the corresponding cipher on it but to no avail. Can we please have a clue?

    #48010
    Harry
    Keymaster

    Will definitely be posting one or more hints for this one, but not today!

    Good luck,

    Harry

    #48011
    10degrees-admin
    Keymaster

    Harri, det er månge muliheter for knøkkelordet, så kan du konfirmere at knøkkelordet er [Redigerad av Harry]?
    Ni hundre og nittini takk.

    #48022
    10degrees-admin
    Keymaster

    Can we have a hint now?

    #48025
    Harry
    Keymaster

    Sure! The frequency analysis app on https://2020se.cipherchallenge.org/frequency-counter/ gives a result (for Challenge B) that looks remarkably like the usual frequency of English characters, so maybe they haven’t been substituted. As well as that, the text has some suspicious looking capital letters which normally represent the beginnings of sentences or of proper names, and that might suggest a way to reorder the letters into something more closely resembling English.

    Good luck!

    Harry

    #48028
    10degrees-admin
    Keymaster

    For Challenge B, do we have any idea what sort of message it will be, the sort of words it will contain? I may have missed a clue about this in one of the previous messages, or if not, a pointer of that nature could be useful!

    #48033
    Harry
    Keymaster

    no clues beforehand, but we have published something since here on the forum!

    Good luck, Harry

    #48029
    10degrees-admin
    Keymaster

    Thank you! That tip really helped me.

    #48038
    10degrees-admin
    Keymaster

    Hints should not be given until at least after the first deadline for it is unfair to those who damaged their brains who tried to solve it themselves.

    #48039
    Harry
    Keymaster

    I feel your pain, and we will be far less generous for later rounds!

    #48042
    10degrees-admin
    Keymaster

    got to say i agree with @18goyaaan even though i missed the first deadline by about two characters 🙁

    #48061
    Inactive

    Read the hint, but still struggling! I’m obviously missing the point!

    #48064
    Harry
    Keymaster

    Have you read the BOSS handbook? It describes several different types of cipher and ways to tackle them.

    Harry

    #48062
    Inactive

    TLW NO to your question

    #48104
    10degrees-admin
    Keymaster

    All I had to do to solve 5b was some careful analysis of the first three blocks of text.

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