For challenges involving cryptography: encryption or decryption.
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What ROT is this? - decrypt ROT-n
Here are the letters of the English alphabet in order by frequency:
e t a o i n s h r d l c u m w f g y p b v k j x q z
That is, e is the most frequently used letter, and z is the least common. ...
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13answers
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Write a Playfair encryption program
Write a program that takes two lines of input and uses the first as a key phrase to encrypt the second according to the Playfair encryption technique.
Wikipedia describes Playfair encryption in some ...
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Implement ROT-47… in ROT-47
Challenge: Implement ROT-47 in code that works as both itself and as the ROT-47 version of itself.
Scoring:
Your score is calculated as a percentage of used, ROT-47 eligible bytes in total of both ...
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3answers
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Build an RSA encoder
Your task is to build a function in any language that takes a message m, an encryption e, and a modulus k (all positive integers), and takes m to the power of e modulo k. Your solution must not be a ...
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Rail fence cipher
Write a program which reads a string and a key and encodes the string into a rail-fence cipher using that key.
Similarly, write a program for reverse function, ie, deciphering a rail fence using a ...
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7answers
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C: replace AES FIPS-197 SubBytes table by constant-time code
In FIPS-197 (the Advanced Encryption Standard, known as AES), it is made heavy use of SubBytes, which could be implemented as
unsigned char SubBytes(unsigned char x) {
static const unsigned char ...
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2answers
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Implement DES key expansion
I wanted to make a challenge to do the full DES encryption algorithm, but that may be a bit too involved to get a ton of participation. This challenge is to simply generate the 16 48-bit subkeys used ...
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Underhanded Password Hashing
In the spirit of the Underhanded C Contest, I'm starting an Underhanded Code Contest. The objective of this contest is to straightforwardly implement some code, while subtly hiding a nefarious bug ...
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Implement a One-Time Pad
Background
A one-time pad is a form of encryption that has been proven impossible to crack if used properly.
Encryption is performed by taking a plaintext (comprised of only letters A-Z) and ...
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4answers
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Implement Oplop
Oplop is an algorithm to generate website specific passwords based on a master password and a keyword.
It is described here: http://code.google.com/p/oplop/wiki/HowItWorks
There's an online ...
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5answers
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Implement Rijndael's S-box
Rijndael's S-box is a frequently used operation in AES encryption and decryption. It is typically implemented as a 256-byte lookup table. That's fast, but means you need to enumerate a 256-byte ...
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Write Buggy Code
Now is the time to show off your abilities to write bad code. I am trying out a new sort of programming puzzle, most similar, I think, to the underhanded C contest. The main difference is that this is ...
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3answers
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Break the broken hash
Some time ago, I found this unused hash function (written in Java) in our codebase:
long hashPassword(String password)
{
password = password.toUpperCase();
long hash = 0;
int multiplier = ...
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7answers
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Implement Shamir's Secret Sharing reconstruction
Shamir's secret sharing scheme is a simple way of protecting a secret by splitting it into several parts needed to reconstruct it.
Your task is to implement Shamir's Secret Sharing reconstruction ...
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2answers
588 views
Break the broken cipher
I have designed a simple random generator that cycles two numbers in a chaotic way using a multiply and modulus method. It works great for that.
If I were to use it as a cipher generator it would ...
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2answers
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Decryption by pattern analysis
You are given an encrypted string, encrypted using a very simple substitution cipher.
Problem
You do not know what the cipher is but you do know the ciphertext is English and that the most frequent ...
