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Let's start a little game where we decrypt each other's codes! Here's how it works:
1. A person posts a code
2. Another person solves it
3. The solver posts a code
4. If the solver refuses, he posts "Pass"
Repeat.
For the codes, there are rules too!
1. Don't make it too hard, no prime-number encryption, or anything too hard.
1.5 If it is somewhat difficult or people request it, you must provide an example of decryption or a crew.
2. The decrypted code can not have swears, personal info, or the like.
Here is the first code, pretty easy:
ayjqocwhn:3589 659712

Saka wrote:Here is the first code, pretty easy:
ayjqocwhn:3589 659712

Is there unused information in there, or am I missing some significance? It's too bad that

ayj(rt)ocwhn:3589 85459 659712

isn't quite as clean.

dvgrn wrote:

Saka wrote:Here is the first code, pretty easy:
ayjqocwhn:3589 659712

Is there unused information in there, or am I missing some significance? It's too bad that

ayj(rt)ocwhn:3589 85459 659712

isn't quite as clean.

1. There is some unused things to muslead you
2.?

Saka wrote:2.?

My answer is the first and last name of a mathematician.

My new code challenge, for someone who hasn't solved the first one yet, is

ayj(rt)ocwhn:3589 85459 659712

You'll just have to pretend that there's a Unicode character that combines an "r" and a "t" into a single letter.

dvgrn wrote:You'll just have to pretend that there's a Unicode character that combines an "r" and a "t" into a single letter.

Or in true Computer Science fashion you could have used zero.

rowett wrote:

dvgrn wrote:You'll just have to pretend that there's a Unicode character that combines an "r" and a "t" into a single letter.

Or in true Computer Science fashion you could have used zero.

Hm. Should have thought of that. Well, then,

rayjtocwhn:3589 850459 659712

-- to alter no more than necessary.

dvgrn wrote:

Saka wrote:2.?

My answer is the first and last name of a mathematician.

Just say it.

dvgrn wrote:

rowett wrote:

dvgrn wrote:You'll just have to pretend that there's a Unicode character that combines an "r" and a "t" into a single letter.

Or in true Computer Science fashion you could have used zero.

Hm. Should have thought of that. Well, then,

rayjtocwhn:3589 850459 659712

-- to alter no more than necessary.

Going with assigning 0123456789 gives John Horton Conway.

This one should be easy too, or maybe a bit harder (it is something about the Game of Life):

Rds jqrmpmsjyrtpzm, opmozpua pqsr tsy sjydtpy, sa aov dp mep mlp eyrjy gprmpdotrlm oanr jyj y oetrjyrhp ym pajy svef sym rqrjy.

Rhombic wrote:This one should be easy too, or maybe a bit harder (it is something about the Game of Life):

Rds jqrmpmsjyrtpzm, opmozpua pqsr tsy sjydtpy, sa aov dp mep mlp eyrjy gprmpdotrlm oanr jyj y oetrjyrhp ym pajy svef sym rqrjy.

Maximum number of cases is 560127029342507827200000.

PHPBB12345 wrote:

Rhombic wrote:This one should be easy too, or maybe a bit harder (it is something about the Game of Life):

Rds jqrmpmsjyrtpzm, opmozpua pqsr tsy sjydtpy, sa aov dp mep mlp eyrjy gprmpdotrlm oanr jyj y oetrjyrhp ym pajy svef sym rqrjy.

Maximum number of cases is 560127029342507827200000.

Yeah, I think I went a bit overboard. I'll give a hint. The first two words are "The pentadecathlon"

Rhombic wrote:This one should be easy too, or maybe a bit harder (it is something about the Game of Life):

Rds jqrmpmsjyrtpzm, opmozpua pqsr tsy sjydtpy, sa aov dp mep mlp eyrjy gprmpdotrlm oanr jyj y oetrjyrhp ym pajy svef sym rqrjy.

Rhombic wrote:Yeah, I think I went a bit overboard. I'll give a hint. The first two words are "The pentadecathlon"

What program do you use for encrypted (e.g. C++)?

PHPBB12345 wrote:

Rhombic wrote:This one should be easy too, or maybe a bit harder (it is something about the Game of Life):

Rds jqrmpmsjyrtpzm, opmozpua pqsr tsy sjydtpy, sa aov dp mep mlp eyrjy gprmpdotrlm oanr jyj y oetrjyrhp ym pajy svef sym rqrjy.

Rhombic wrote:Yeah, I think I went a bit overboard. I'll give a hint. The first two words are "The pentadecathlon"

What program do you use for encrypted (e.g. C++)?

Python with a very simple script that I wrote.
Another clue: the text is reversed, but the word lengths are as it is.

Rhombic wrote:

PHPBB12345 wrote:

Rhombic wrote:This one should be easy too, or maybe a bit harder (it is something about the Game of Life):

Rds jqrmpmsjyrtpzm, opmozpua pqsr tsy sjydtpy, sa aov dp mep mlp eyrjy gprmpdotrlm oanr jyj y oetrjyrhp ym pajy svef sym rqrjy.

Rhombic wrote:Yeah, I think I went a bit overboard. I'll give a hint. The first two words are "The pentadecathlon"

What program do you use for encrypted (e.g. C++)?

Python with a very simple script that I wrote.
Another clue: the text is reversed, but the word lengths are as it is.

first step is "yjr qrmysfevsyjapm, yphryjrt eoyj yjr naomlrt, od pmr pg yjr yep lmpem pdvoaasyptd yjsy str s qpaupzomp om zptr yjsm pmr qjsdr",

Answer is "The pentadecathlon, together with the blinker, is one of the two known oscillators that are a polyomino in more than one phase."
Correct?

first step is "yjr qrmysfevsyjapm, yphryjrt eoyj yjr naomlrt, od pmr pg yjr yep lmpem pdvoaasyptd yjsy str s qpaupzomp om zptr yjsm pmr qjsdr",

Answer is "The pentadecathlon, together with the blinker, is one of the two known oscillators that are a polyomino in more than one phase."
Correct?

Yes!! How was it coded? (I forgot)

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