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Reading through this discussion board has confused me as to the nature of this line: for (int eggs = {each 3-byte tuple in plaintext}) Do I need to convert the entire tuple into one hex string, and then convert that hex string into an integer? (i.e. if the tuple was: (0x38, 0x2d, 0x81), would eggs =...

CodeX wrote:It's not necessarily unique for every person, funnily enough when you enter it as a number it doesn't work

So what you saying is that we need to give the name, but we don't have to list our specific (*insert what I think the answer is, see post above this one*)?

Perfect. Exactly what I needed. A response with (relatively*) specific answers, and even a slight example. THANK YOU!

*relative as in if you know what you were looking for

Ok, I have two new questions, regarding two different lines of code. 1. key = {unknown four-byte value} So, just to make sure that I'm understanding this correctly, key is an array containing four different bytes, correct? (i.e. key = {a4, 91, f0, b6}) 2. for (int eggs = {each 3-byte tuple in plaint...

The_Dark_Avenger wrote: gzip...

This is definately the most helpful hint.
I'll add that it won't be gzip itself, but a command to interpret it.

Alright, admittedly, I'm very new to computer science and programming as a whole (I would say that I'm somewhat competent in only three languages, but not 100% fluent in all three). With that said, could someone please tell me what language the algorithm given to us in the prompt is written in? Or a...

So I figured out what I did wrong. My approach was wildly incorrect. I was trying to find b and x instead of just trying to solve the cipher.

Lesson learned: I'm dumb and should try to just cut straight to the solution.

I will not be surprised if you got no PM reply ... it seems to me you have to ask for smaller hints. Yeah, probably won't. Figured it was worth a try. Here's the problem: I've approached this challenge in three separate ways, and I just tried going through every single possible value from 0-256, (f...

Look, I know that I'm basically asking someone to give me the answer, but for someone who coded this in python, could you please pm me the code you wrote? I wrote a really large set of functions to try and decode this, and I was excited because it was narrowing down the answers, but when I ran it wi...

Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who asked his/her best friends Ctrl/Cmd+C and Ctrl/Cmd+V for help

I feel like I am close, but I everything that I've tried doesn't work, so I'll ask a simple question:

Is the answer actually in the text given, or does it have to do with the text given?