[Wolves] Coder breaking

[Peter Evans]

On Monday 27 November 2006 15:58, Jen Phillips wrote:
> I'm similarly stumped on how to split the string into characters :-/
>
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All of which makes it slightly more complicated than the '+4 rotation' we'd 
expect from a Caesar cipher?

I made the assumption that they'd performed the encryption on the plaintext 
and then simply substituted the resulting ciphertext with its numerical 
equivalent.  Then collapsed the resulting set of numbers into a single stream 
of a single number.

Which is probably wrong, because it's proving to be difficult to decrypt 
quickly and methodically - even given the fact that we've been told both the 
encryption algorithm and the key!

My initial working on the string gave me the following (attached) working on 
the assumption that no number can be greater than 25 and that no numbers are 
padded with leading 0's there has to be a character break immediately 
following the 0.  Not all numbers have been looked at since it didn't look to 
be panning out anyway (ref. my final comment).

Last line is simply an attempt to reverse the rotation - just in case.  Got me 
nowhere though.

Of course we've all automatically assumed that the plaintext is a) In English 
and b) Makes any sort of sense anyway?
-- 
Regards,

Pete Evans 
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