a weekend encryption project

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smlmod
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a weekend encryption project

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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so feel free to move this thread as necessary.

Article is from Oedipus, only the argument paragraph.

The goal is to find the 3 bold words in the passage.

Encrypted is an html file with multiple tags, plaintext consists of the two passwords in the text file.
Encryption generates 2 keys and only uses xor to encrypt the file.


Both the plaintext file and the encrypted file are in the link below
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c81d ... 49b5870170
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there is a ~400 kb key embedded in the beginning of the file in addition to the 2 passwords

the original file size is 1.57 kb

The goal is still to fine the 3 bold words

This is the text within the original file:
ARGUMENT
To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards doubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the word declared before to Laius. Wherefore he fled from what he deemed his father's house and in his flight he encountered and unwillingly slew his father Laius. Arriving at Thebes he answered the riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king. So he reigned in the room of Laius, and espoused the widowed queen. Children were born to them and Thebes prospered under his rule, but again a grievous plague fell upon the city. Again the oracle was consulted and it bade them purge themselves of blood-guiltiness. Oedipus denounces the crime of which he is unaware, and undertakes to track out the criminal. Step by step it is brought home to him that he is the man. The closing scene reveals Jocasta slain by her own hand and Oedipus blinded by his own act and praying for death or exile.
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