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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: What are the chances of this encrytion being broken?
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:22:26 +0000
Organization: Fix this later
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On 26/03/2025 19:33, Marcel Logen wrote:
> Richard Heathfield in sci.crypt:
> 
>> I'd say we're an algorithm short of a crank. Anyone can post a
>> ciphertext:
>>
>> 33 EA B3 38 48 0D F3 00 51 A4 C9 8D 24 FE F9 00
>> A3 71 21 62 14 FB F7 00 44 16 EC 96 2A E3 EC 00
>> D4 D8 7E 7A 00 7F FE 00 79 36 B9 43 84 7C FD 00
>> FC 6A 8C 02 62 03 FC 00 9D 0C 60 04 60 7F FD 00
>> 18 0F AE 07 88 FE BC 00
>>
>> See?
>>
>> (Hints available on request.)
> 
> With the hint from Colin I could decrypt this.
> 
> I had already thought that it would go in this direction.


I was really just seeing whether anyone was awake. I'll try to 
make the next one a bit more fun.

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