[Wolves] Coder breaking

David Morley davmor2 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 20:33:11 GMT 2006


On 27/11/06, Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:
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> A couple of points:
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> 1/ are we certain these are decimal numbers?
>
> Scanning the string there are NO nines, thus it could be in base 9, so
> if the +4 rotation is correct we would have to do modulo arithmetic in
> the correct base.  This could be base 9 or 10.
>
> 2/ Should it be read left to right?
>
> working on the principal of pairs we get
> 82 26 20 14 35 14 31 02 04 22 57 32 24 14 31 04 17 18 10 18 54 62 25
>
> or arrange it vertically:
>
> 82262014351431020422573
> 22414310417181018546225
>
> which gives us
>
> 82 22 24 61 24 03 11 40 34 51 17 41 38 11 00 21 08 45 24 26 52 72 35
>
> All of which goes to show that in trying to crack this don't assume
> anything.
>
> May be its written sdrawkcab?
>
this has it's "drawbacks" :)


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