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Didactic Feedback Cipher 2
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:54 am
by gfoot
Is this challenge really meant to have the same ciphertext as the previous one? The same answer doesn't work.

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:25 pm
by tails
This time I can't solve it either

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:48 pm
by adum
whoops, fixed!
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:10 pm
by tails
adum wrote:whoops, fixed!
Thank you! I solved it. But it was very tough again!
The notable fact is that the sequence consists of odd number of characters.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:52 am
by the_impaler
Yeah, this is kind of a problem for me - why is it ending (or starting ? ) with half byte ?
Or it's Broken one again ?
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:16 am
by adum
whoops, it's not meant to have an odd number or chars! sorry guys, i messed up again. it's fixed now...
this time it really boggles my mind that it got solved in a broken state. i had forgotten to mod by 256 and numbers were getting bigger than a byte.
sorry again,
adum
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:02 am
by gfoot
Yes, wow, nice one tails!
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:05 am
by tails
Sorry I should have pointed out the problem more clearly.
And please count me out next time when you validate your challenges.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:34 pm
by the_impaler
That was good, tails!
gfoot did a nice job too to bring "Start" challenge to discuss.
Didactic Feedback Cipher Long 2 has a typo in description - one of those "k" should be "x" I presume.
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:50 pm
by sabretooth
great challenge once again adum.
tails, I take my hat off to you.
sabretooth
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:14 pm
by inQr
Hi,
I think my algorithm is correct, but I only get gibberish. I tried to filter characters which ASCII values are between 0 and 150, but this leads to no result.
I already solved 'Didactic XOR Cipher 3' which is similar to this one. Does the plaintext looks like: your answer is '…'?
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:57 pm
by AMindForeverVoyaging
inQr wrote:
I already solved 'Didactic XOR Cipher 3' which is similar to this one. Does the plaintext looks like: your answer is '…'?
No, it does not. And Didactic Feedback Cipher is actually more similar to this one. Just try to deduce n+1 from n and you'll get there

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:08 pm
by longxie
Hi guys, Is there a mistake in this challenge? Why the length of HEX string is 379?
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:00 pm
by AMindForeverVoyaging
If I counted correctly, the given string has a length of 124 single characters, which results in 124/2 = 62 ASCII characters.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 3:06 am
by longxie
I'm sorry, I made a mistake.
That I have said is about the "Didactic Feedback Cipher Long 2"