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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.crypt |
| Subject | Re: Holiday puzzles... |
| Date | 2023-01-05 18:06 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87sfgokg9a.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <toh8eo$3uov0$1@dont-email.me> <87sfgzjucs.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <tp68av$2pt02$1@dont-email.me> <87ilhlkyb4.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <tp6j8h$2qq2t$1@dont-email.me> |
Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> writes:
> On 05/01/2023 11:36, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> writes:
>> The trick to good crypto-puzzles is to give them have enough threads to
>> pull on that there is always something interesting to pursue without
>> there being so many possibilities that it seems totally arbitrary. A
>> text with no patterns is boring, but one with too many is almost as bad.
>> I don't think I got this right. Anyway, I hope there was some
>> entertainment in it.
>
> I think you got it right. There's no point if its too easy.
>
> I enjoyed it anyway.
Oh, good.
>> Full spoiler below...
>> 5 1
>> A s z20o 4tn7 8xr" &u% w 9y()9{7 6*]"e !@@ u &^~e> }{\ 'Ar
>> t 7 .GFH :;EvM M|A <LX PBVWIWT*
>> zCRTe Vg iXV kXWjja. !hbtgiw( vvnE'
>> fus qy!! t"z w^2 *^-2=88 ^- 9-}%=; ~- DG XY ~p]r C:C;: @NJ>K2 !PP QFD
>
> Ahh. I should've seen that.
>
> Hopefully this decodes ...
>
> 00000000: 1b49 731b 63ab 212b 03e3 99a3 234b 7b71 .Is.c.!+....#K{q
...
> 00000280: 99a3 237b aba1 4bd9 5150 0001 0101 932b ..#{..K.QP.....+
> 00000290: a3ab 9373 0181 d950 e853 0a ...s...P.S.
Yup. Well done. There's a silly detail about the end when the input is
not an exact multiple, but that hardly matters.
--
Ben.
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Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-22 12:53 +0000
Re: Holiday puzzles... Colin <a@b.com> - 2022-12-23 07:13 +1300
Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2022-12-22 12:53 +0000
Re: Holiday puzzles... Colin <a@b.com> - 2022-12-23 22:18 +1300
Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2022-12-23 15:07 +0000
Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-23 17:48 +0000
Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2022-12-28 11:14 +0000
Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-28 17:44 +0000
Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 10:21 +0000
Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-05 11:36 +0000
Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 13:27 +0000
Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-05 18:06 +0000
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