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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

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

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

ps: ah yes, the last line answered everything

Hi,

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

You could try to send a mail to adum:

adum at adum dot com

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