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[Bonusuk]

It's a standard Vigenere Square cipher.

The keyword was clue.

I have an exam in data cryptography at university next Thursday, and this was a basic example .

I solved it by copying the blog code into this website


http://sharkysoft.com/misc/vigenere/

Then just worked the key out from the first three letters.

T -> V = 3 = C
H -> S = 12 = L
X -> R = 21 = U

I used intelligence to figure out that the next letter might just be E, and guess what, it worked.

[Kagerou]

I understand how the cipher works, but what I can't find is the encoded text to decipher. I don't see it on the blog. Just a collection of plain text entries. The encoded text, for a Vigenere square, shouldn't be readable. Is it buried in an image? Is it not on the blogspot page?

[Bonusuk]

Find the comment "Sometimes you read with your eyes, sometimes you read with...".

The picture directly below it is of the hotel notice saying, revelation is right around the corner.

Click comments below that picture.

[fateit]

Re: THX Blog crypt

[THX8612]

[Bonusuk]

It's no big deal THX.

I have an exam at uni next weak which involves cracking Vigenere Square ciphers without knowing the length of the keyword to beging with, never mind exactly what it is .

You're username was obvious becasue you can't encode numbers with the Vigenere square you used, so VSR had to equal THX .

If I had to go to the effort of doing Kasiski and Friedman tests on the ciphertext, I would have, then it would have been the same process of elimination for each letter.

[novaKain]

i feel like garth and wayne in the scene where the plane is flying RIGHT OVER THEIR HEAD. i need more school!