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about substitute teacher
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:50 am
by martin_great_boy
what kind of code used?
plisss help me
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:58 pm
by sky
As the name of the challenge suggest, it uses a simple substitution cipher (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_cipher)
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:53 am
by martin_great_boy
in substitusion simple it doesn't work,
please give me some hint...
Basic
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:00 am
by Xeyes
The basics of crypto (and by basics I mean you should have figured that out on you're own) is to know english

What I mean is that there are only a few common 2 or 3 letter words therefore you could start off by replacing small words first by guessing and then bigger words
You should get something eventually
Another key when dealing with harder encryptions (XECryption is my favorite) is remembering what are the most common used letters (and characters) and what they can be associated with (Hex, Bin, HTML...)
Hope it helps
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:09 pm
by dorahan
PLEASEE... i don't understand at all about this challenge... so confusing... please give me an information and a clue to solve this challenge... thanks so much..
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:55 am
by ShmenonPie
The problem with substitution is most of the methods of solving it require you to know what the substitutions for the letters are. If there were some brute force way to try all different substitutions until an answer that made sense was found...
Re: Basic
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:05 pm
by m!nus
Xeyes wrote:XECryption is my favorites
hackthissite.org!

:)
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:09 am
by Xeyes
We all learn somewhere

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:53 pm
by grenmajulord
wait which one are you talking about, is it the newsgroup cipher, if not how do you solve that one
?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:13 pm
by Hi!!!
I solved all of the cyphers so far by knowing all of the codes contain the word "answer." I then find all of the 5 letter words in the code and substitute it in (usually there is only a few). If the five letter coded word has a three letter coded word in front of it, I would guess that the word is "the" and double check it with the coded word that means "answer" to see if the "e"s match up.
Hope this gives you a big push in the right direction!

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:06 pm
by wannabe
Hi,
I wanted to ask if I need to differ between capitals or non capitals. What is the first character from "teacher", I am supposed to use?
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:42 pm
by wannabe
I started writing useless programs and started to wonder more and more. A little hint from me is, just use the editor.
^^
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 5:16 pm
by samuelandjw
I still have no idea about this challenge. I think I have tried words like 'answer', 'the', 'is', 'this' but still I cannot get the answer. Could anybody give me more hints?
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 8:09 am
by Karian
try harder.
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 9:55 am
by wannabe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute:
-> "Substitute means to replace one thing with another." <-
The most frequent character in the English language is the 'e' !