07-24-2003, 09:55 AM
look, aga, you gots the numbers. Now, i myself was fooled by thinking it was a single 0-255 value it was XORing, and i set off like a big idiot to make a program to decrypt it until i realized it XOR'd a pattern of values based on the string. it didnt take me long to realize that there's no chance in hell that i, with my high school education, could crack such a code without the key.
however, just out of curiousity, people crack codes like this everyday. how to cryptologists crack this sort of stuff?
i remember reading about a set of three ciphers that only the first one was decoded, and it was a set of numbers pointing to the nth word of the declaration of independence, and the other two have yet to be cracked. anyone know more about that? I think a "document" cipher program would be real cool, if you had a way to point to the nth word, and if the word doesnt appear, make notation to point to the nth letter of the nth word, because then you could solve it more easily without the help of a computer program if you had the key document.
however, just out of curiousity, people crack codes like this everyday. how to cryptologists crack this sort of stuff?
i remember reading about a set of three ciphers that only the first one was decoded, and it was a set of numbers pointing to the nth word of the declaration of independence, and the other two have yet to be cracked. anyone know more about that? I think a "document" cipher program would be real cool, if you had a way to point to the nth word, and if the word doesnt appear, make notation to point to the nth letter of the nth word, because then you could solve it more easily without the help of a computer program if you had the key document.
i]"I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum ... you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"[/i] - Dirty Harry