maramom,
Don't throw that pencil away too quickly. The title could be an obscure clue to the cipher type, rather than an exhortation to break the code in a particular way. ;)
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Crypto challenge 14: Auvn tso ljs'a ko mtso "zjsbjyyg"
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Those tips certainly helped :)
Title :
THIS ONE CAN'T BE DONE "MANUALLY"
Instructions :
"ANOTHER TOUGHY THIS WEEK. THIS IS A CIPHER THAT WE HAVE NOT YET HAD, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE HAD SOME SIMILAR ONES. THE POINTS GO TO THE PERSON WHO CAN UNRAVEL IT AND POST THE KEY, WHICH IS THE NAME OF THE SUBJECT OF THE MESSAGE. SINCE THIS ONE IS QUITE TOUGH I HAVE PRESERVED PUNCTUATION AND SPACING, BUT THEY ARE NOT CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE PLAINTEXT FOR ENCRYPTION PURPOSES."
Both using the mono-alphabetic substitution alphabet :
plain : abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
cipher : jklmoqruvwxyzstephnabcdfgi
(key "stephen")
Main text :
"A brilliant scientist recently asked the Internet what the human race must do to to survive for the next hundred years. There were many interesting answers, but everyone including himself, missed what I thought was the main issue. That is the control of the human population. This now stands at over six billion and is doubling roughly every thirty years. If the current trend continues it will be in the order of ten times greater in a hundred years. That is sixty billion people. Every new person who is born places a burden on the Earth's limited resources. Each new life requires a supply of food, clean air, drinkable water, clothing, shelter and so on and produces waste that must be disposed of. Controlling how people breed is a very emotional issue but it is not one that we can ignore in the hope that it will go away. Humans are an ingenuous species and I hope that they will have the foresight to face the challenge before it is too late."
Autokey Vigenere cipher with the key "hawking"
Together "Stephen Hawking" :)
Great work, Infinity08 and welcome back to the fray. The points are yours. Please post a brief description of how you cracked the code, if you have the time. I'll leave the question open for a little while longer. This week's cipher was an autokey cipher ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
The title contained an obscure clue to the cipher type (manual != auto). The message refers to Stephen Hawking's recent question on Yahoo! Answers. The text is my own thoughts, and this being my thread, I have indulged in a little sermonizing.
The current points totals after this challenge are as follows:
maramom 1800
RobinD 825
Infinity08 675
NicoLaan 100
Galisteo8 75
JR2003 50
snoyes_jw 50
>> Great work, Infinity08 and welcome back to the fray.
Yep ... I should have a bit more time from now on :) Been busy lately ...
>> Please post a brief description of how you cracked the code
The title and instructions were quite easy as you noted. Frequency analysis to get a first idea, then determine the 1, 2 and 3-letter words in the text (using the frequency analysis results. The rest was just gradually filled in by completing words ...
The Autokey Vigenere cipher was more difficult, and the last hint (7 letter key) helped a lot. Then it was actually really easy. 6 of those 7 letters were represented by 1-letter words (either "a" or "i") which gave me two possibilities for each letter ... It didn't take me long to figure out the key that way ... and then it was just simply decoding using the key.
The link you gave (http://rumkin.com/tools/c
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by: maramomPosted on 2006-10-21 at 20:44:00ID: 17782594
Got the instructions..ready to enter new cryptic territory..no pen and paper necessary! :)