Hi! Yep, was fun. The code that Emba, Ian and I came up with is here:
https://gist.github.com/mikej/15ee178b345e85709b3f We found the keyword just by printing out the possibilities and manually looking for an English word in the list (no dictionary search). We didn't get very far with the stretch goal but I'm interested to spend some more time looking into that. Array#rotate looks like it would have saved us a lot of code too :) Cheers, -Michael On 16 October 2015 at 13:37, Tekin Suleyman <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you enjoyed this challenge and want to learn more about cryptology, you > should have a look at the Matasano Crypto Challenges < > http://cryptopals.com/> which has much more of the same sort of thing. > Last nights task is basically the same as challenge 6 < > http://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/6/> which is in the first “warm > up” set (and which I’ve done and is why I knew about the frequency analysis > approach). They go on to cover a large range of crypto subjects – I’ve > learned a lot doing them (and still haven’t finished). Some of them are > quite tricky, but are worth it. > > > Those Matasano challenges are really interesting, I learnt a heap doing > the (very) few I managed to complete. For those that want to have a crack > at them in Ruby, I'd recommend this checking out this blog post on byte > manipulation first: > http://www.happybearsoftware.com/byte-manipulation-in-ruby. That’ll put > you in good stead getting starting. > > Tekin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
