Didactic Scrambled Egg Cipher Warmup

Mütze · Post by **Mütze** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:32 pm

Hi,

I wonder, if this challenge is somehow broken. My program for this challenge can
solve the pre-warmup challenge, even with a 16 byte key in less than a second.

But for this challenge, my program doesn't find a valid solution. I have only one
explanation: Are there some special characters in the plain text, which I might
not consider as valid characters?

Mütze

Mütze · Post by **Mütze** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:45 pm

Hi, I just solved this challenge:-)

You should ignore the last egg, to solve it. And yes, there are some more
special characters in the plaintext, which cannot be found in the pre-warmup
challenge.

BTW: The next 'Didactic Scrambled Egg Cipher' challenge doesn't show the full
code of the encryption algorithm, at least with konqueror.

Mütze

Isaev · Post by **Isaev** » Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:32 pm

"print eggs;" prints 3 bytes (without the first) or all 4?

ps: ah yes, the last line answered everything

rokurou · Post by **rokurou** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:33 pm

Hi,

i have the solution but it doesn't get accepted. I'm sure it should be right.

taw · Post by **taw** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 1:23 am

What's the official decoding for this?

I wrote Z3 solver, and I got so much junk, there's pretty much no way to get it down to just sensible characters. Is it mixing l33t speak with it somehow?

I somehow got the answer part, but still no idea what's the real key and full decoding.

eulerscheZahl · Post by **eulerscheZahl** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 11:18 am

As you already solved it, you have access to the solver thread.

Sat Apr 08, 2017 7:25 am

Exactly. Please do not discuss the solution here, but feel free to do this in the "Challenges Solved" section instead. That's what it is there for.

TheBigBoss · Post by **TheBigBoss** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:47 pm

AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:Exactly. Please do not discuss the solution here, but feel free to do this in the "Challenges Solved" section instead. That's what it is there for.

Well, but after solving, this thread is given to me to discuss my solution. I think, this shouldn't be. Someone important should fix it...

Sun Nov 18, 2018 12:16 am

TheBigBoss wrote:Well, but after solving, this thread is given to me to discuss my solution. I think, this shouldn't be. Someone important should fix it...

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