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Let’s start a thread for competitors’ ciphers.
[Good idea, here are the rules:
If you want to set a puzzle or quiz question post it together with the answer putting the answer in square brackets with ANSWER PLEASE DO NOT POST THIS BIT at the start. For example:
What is 2+2
[ANSWER PLEASE DO NOT POST THIS BIT
4
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(I know this is not a good puzzle, OR a good quiz question, but what do you expect?)
We will start easy (maybe not that easy) and work up as the competition goes on so that everyone has a good chance to solve your challenges.
Same idea for ciphers. If you would like to challenge the gang post the challenge together with the decrypt and a quick description of how it was encrypted. We might not post those, especially at the start, but we will certainly look at them.
Harry]
Harry, no matter there difficulty it may be better to put some up on day one as fillers during the ‘easy’ NCC challenges, there may be less time for them in the later stages. What do think?
I think that is an excellent idea, and in fact we may have a really nice surprise in a couple of days. In the meantime we will publish competitor challenges as long as they are submitted in the format I suggested above [Hint, hint]
Harry@Harry Sorry about the double posting
[I didn’t see the second post,The-Letter-Wriggler are you sure there was one? Harry]
WILL YOU BE THE FIRST TO SOLVE THIS?
TITLE – TLW CIPHER:
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Yet To Solve ThiS One
tHe hIntS
eVery LIne Will EacH
ONLy BE a LittLE Twisted
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When you have solved it choose any 6 non consecutive letters from the plaintext, retain their order from left to right, and post them without spaces as your answer.
Do not use the same 6 letters as other posts.Your post to look like this: TLW Answer: ABCDEF
The first competitor to post the CORRECT answer gets all the glory.
Of course all other correct posts will be deemed very worthy too.The-Letter_Wriggler’s puzzle above is impossible, but very clever! Don’t worry if you can’t get it, there will be easier ones coming soon from a special guest!
Harry
Before I could comment you Harry, Madness does it for me.
So Madness of course gets all the GLORY as I expected he would!
That was one fast solve my friend.
I now await all the worthy contestants.
Harry is there a way of keeping this thread at the top of the forum?
It will go out of sight without any posts being made.
Think — Out of Sight – Out of Mind —Today’s episode is brought to you by the number 7197738.
This is actually an encoding rather than a cipher. It was inspired by an on-line challenge at
https://susec.tf/tasks/gantun_229621efd1dcc01ef8851254affd1326887ec58e.txzI took their algorithm and reduced to to only use the letters A-Z. Here is the Python code that I used to encode the “ciphertext”. Because indentation is important in Python, and because the forum server removes spaces from the beginning of every line, you should replace every occurrence of “[INDENT]” with 8 spaces (or a tab) in the following code before you use it.
from random import randint
alphabet = “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”
def encrypt(p):
[INDENT]numbers = []
[INDENT]for char in p.upper():
[INDENT][INDENT]numbers.append(alphabet.index(char)+26)
[INDENT]while len(numbers) > 1:
[INDENT][INDENT]n = randint(0,len(numbers)-2)
[INDENT][INDENT]x = numbers[n]
[INDENT][INDENT]y = numbers[n+1]
[INDENT][INDENT]if x > y:
[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]z = x*x + x + y
[INDENT][INDENT]else:
[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]z = y*y + x
[INDENT][INDENT]numbers = numbers[:n] + [z] + numbers[n+2:]
[INDENT]return numbers[0]Here is the “ciphertext”:
106383886716898490132849808893959579644966513504668004893376273104567230060478853561821154300405528376830349480440305515628682136413218581984172008217451482183624183648735550855010971762114675826856238674946359430
If you enjoy this sort of thing, I have another one ready, called the “factorization cipher”. Yes, I stole it too from somewhere else.
[I should note that I had to do a bit of tinkering to make the code run – mostly because some of the characters rendered on the website are not recognised by Python. Try retyping offending lines if you can’t tell what the problem is! Also, nice job on [INDENT] being exactly eight characters.
water_biscuit]
Should EACH [INDENT] be only 4 spaces? I get error with 8. (using Thonney)
If using paste the quote marks will need to be replaced as they are ‘web’ quotes.Each [INDENT] should be exactly the same as every other [INDENT].
I don’t know who Thonney is, but you should kick him to the curb.
The corruption of ‘ and ” is due to the server. It does that to everything.@Madness Hi there 🙂
Thonney is simply a windows based interface to run the standard and current up to date python, it has nothing to do with the actual programming of python.
I was simply asking not stating about the indentation. I replaced each [INDENT] with 4 spaces and it looks and works fine.
You know from my emails to you that I have just started to learn the python instruction set as I program in Pascal, I am not new to programming.
Agree with the corruption statement, I was just pointing it out for others.
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