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Title: ALICE, BOB and EVE
Post by: KonstantinosM on June 18, 2014, 06:15:40 AM
Bitcoin has been created through cryptography? Let's pass along encrypted messages and decrypt them. I'll start with something simple.
Next one has to break it and in turn use an incrementally more complicated method of encryption.
Hint: Beware the ides of march.

Let's start at the beginning:
uijt jt b dbftbs dzqifs xjui b tijgu pg pof



Title: Re: ALICE, BOB and EVE
Post by: Este Nuno on June 18, 2014, 12:02:06 PM
this is a caesar cypher with a shift of one

Heres one:

HTHESTHHRASWRASCSCRSSCWWWESWWEIITAIIT

Hint: 4 2 5 3 1


Title: Re: ALICE, BOB and EVE
Post by: Taras on June 18, 2014, 03:53:56 PM
ftue ue m omqemd okbtqd iuft m eturf ar fia

Try this one :)


Title: Re: ALICE, BOB and EVE
Post by: KonstantinosM on June 18, 2014, 05:11:28 PM
ftue ue m omqemd okbtqd iuft m eturf ar fia

Try this one :)

this is a caesar cypher with a shift of two

Only it's not!

@Este Nuno

is the hint about 12345?


Title: Re: ALICE, BOB and EVE
Post by: Este Nuno on June 18, 2014, 09:03:09 PM
ftue ue m omqemd okbtqd iuft m eturf ar fia

Try this one :)

this is a caesar cypher with a shift of two

Only it's not!

@Este Nuno

is the hint about 12345?

No the hint has something to do with the the way you solve it.

If you want a spoiler you can google the scrambled cipher and the site where i got it from will show how it's done. 3rd result down on google for me.