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Author:  Spreadie [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:27 am ]
Post subject:  Calling all code breakers

GCHQ are hiring.

Have you got what it takes?

http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/

Author:  Fogmeister [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Calling all code breakers

Aha!

Breaks out the program I wrote to do exactly this...

(Stupid that it's an image and not copyable text though)

Author:  jonlumb [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Calling all code breakers

What Cypher do you think they're using Oli?

Author:  belchingmatt [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Calling all code breakers

eb 04 af c2 bf a3 81 ec 00 01 00 00 31 c9 88 0c
0c fe c1 75 f9 31 c0 ba ef be ad de 02 04 0c 00
d0 c1 ca 08 8a 1c 0c 8a 3c 04 88 1c 04 88 3c 0c
fe c1 75 e8 e9 5c 00 00 00 89 e3 81 c3 04 00 00
00 5c 58 3d 41 41 41 41 75 43 48 3d 42 42 42 42
75 3b 5a 89 d1 89 e6 89 df 29 cf f3 a4 89 de 89
d1 89 df 29 cf 31 c0 31 db 31 d2 fe c0 02 1c 06
8a 14 06 8a 34 1e 88 34 06 88 14 1e 00 f2 30 f6
8a 1c 16 8a 17 30 da 88 17 47 49 75 de 31 db 89
d8 fe c0 cd 80 90 90 e8 9d ff ff ff 41 41 41 41


It's been out for a few days, many people have already transcribed it.

Author:  Fogmeister [ Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Calling all code breakers

jonlumb wrote:
What Cypher do you think they're using Oli?

No idea, just wrote a code breaking thing a while back and thought I'd run this through it :D

Author:  Fogmeister [ Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Calling all code breakers

Was thinking about this last night.

Too much on atm to try it, maybe this weekend will have a go.

I think it'll be a straight forward XOR cypher and the anser will be the password used to encrypt the plaintext.

The problem is not knowing how long the password is etc...

Will have a go and see what happens.

I've done XOR decryption before but I was given the length of the password to make it easier.

Author:  Fogmeister [ Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Calling all code breakers

OK, so I've rewritten and improved my decryption program.

I can now XOR the whole text quite easily.

Just need to write an algorithm to run through different password possibilities and do some frequency checking etc...

Author:  Linux_User [ Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Calling all code breakers

For those who are interested the passphrase is here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... p=19888836

Author:  Fogmeister [ Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Calling all code breakers

Doesn't that kind of defeat the object?


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Author:  leeds_manc [ Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Calling all code breakers

Spreadie wrote:
Have you got what it takes?


no :lol:

Author:  timark_uk [ Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Calling all code breakers

Calling all code breakers … JFGI.

Mark

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