Reply To: 8B
What the Dickens is going on here?
I have been sitting here with the plaintext for 3 days now
trying to figure out just as to where I am suppposed to
put in some stupid x’s to get a 100 score!
How insulting to Dickens, the only one with a wooden head
is the BOSS who planned the submit decrypt matching. Sorry.
Just getting the clean unabigous plaintext is all that
should be required of any agent.
The highest I’ve scored with a clean PT is 75%
I tried the PT with x’s put between all double letters
just like you would when composing a playfair but submitting
that gave a worse score.
Unless there is a nudge of a clue as to what x’s are needed where
I’m giving up on this one. 🙁
I think Harry is right it will lower the count of correct submissions.
If you just do a straight decrypt of the cipher text with the correct Playfair grid then all the padding will be included for you. Not sure why this is so hard? Harry