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Hmm I tried used OCR to exdtract every word from the given edition of a Christmas Carol, pages 21 AND 24, then ran EVERY word through the app I wrote – and all gibbersih. If anyone can give me ANY clue, no matter how cryptic, I’d be very much obliged
10B? I hope you haven’t started on 10B yet!!! As for 9B, perhaps the Case Files will shed some light on things? Harry
May be you should wear spectacles too.
Harry for part B can you tell me honestly, is the key actually in a Christmas carol by Charles dickens or some sort of combo of words
I honestly can’t tell you. Or I can’t tell you honestly and wouldn’t want to tell you dishonestly. Or something. Ho ho ho, Harry
@person1
If you’re desperate to find the key, you could technically go through all reasonably unique words in ACC (that’s one way to brute force it).. but even then, you may not get exactly what you want with your plaintext, or you can wait until case files is update with more details.
“but even then, you may not get exactly what you want with your plaintext”. WHY?
That is truly a cri de coeur! Was that a general “WHY?” as in “WHAT IS THE POINT OF IT ALL?” or a more specific question? Hard to tell. I think we will go with the first (dictionary definition of “a passionate appeal, complaint, or protest”) as that pleases me most! Muahahah! Harry
Due to lack of cribs (and no success with your above method) I desperately tried an nltk dictionary attack.
This gave me some progress … but there is still more to do! 😉For 9B it seems to be a very specific print of a Christmas Carol provided so I can not find the same publication anywhere else. Therefore I have a dilemna in trying to solve 9B with the hints 9A provides…
are all your clues red herrings
No, though there is definitely something fishy about some of them! Harry
I already made my own one and ive got some progress i have a word that gives partial readable text but idk what else to do
Completely unrelated to ciphers but fun fact if you didn’t know (because for once I didn’t think about it until earlier this afternoon): a ‘red herring’ gets its name from the practice of dragging a fish (a cured herring with salt and smoked) across a trail to mislead hunting dogs, and the term was later popularised in the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Anyway… back to figuring out the keyword
@decrypting_donkey
If you manage to get some of the plaintext using the standard decryption method, you might see why the text doesn’t quite play all that fair…
@AES_of_spades think laterally
Try a dictionary attack using common words, take the one that fits closest (e common, h not as common, “the” at least five times) and see which parts of it are legible and which aren’t, then figure it out.
Looking back at the 2021 challenge can help too.
Good luck.
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