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markchd

Avatar: 12369 2010-01-24 16:26:11 -0500
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MrThePlague Posted:

When presented with a chunk of binary that doesn’t immediately “decode”, the first thing I try is xor’ing it from 1 to 255 and seeing if anything readable comes out..

Thanks for the insight. I’ve been reading about how XOR works, and I can see why you’d use that before trying anything more complex. It seems almost useless in terms of breaking a “secure” encryption, but for an online puzzle it’s (demonstrably) adequate.

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Evil Trout Posted:

This is actually how I encoded it in the first place, and is the easiest way to decode it Log in to see images!
Just saw this, it’s quite a relief the puzzle wasn’t intended to require programming knowledge to solve.
markchd edited this message on 03/02/2008 3:05PM
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