Questions tagged [cipher]
For challenges relating in some way to encoding messages using classical (pen and paper) ciphers. For modern ciphers, such as AES, use the [encryption] tag instead.
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Clock (transliterate) Cipher
Introduction:
I have loads of different ciphers stored in a document I once compiled as a kid, I picked a few of the ones I thought were best suitable for challenges (not too trivial, and not too ...
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Trifid Cipher (without keyword)
Introduction:
I have loads of different ciphers stored in a document I once compiled as a kid, I picked a few of the ones I thought were best suitable for challenges (not too trivial, and not too ...
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Computer Cipher
Introduction:
I have loads of different ciphers stored in a document I once compiled as a kid, I picked a few of the ones I thought were best suitable for challenges (not too trivial, and not too ...
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The Improved Caesar Pig Latin Cipher
The problem with the Caesar cipher is the resulting words are often unpronounceable. The problem with Pig Latin is that it is easy to decode. Why not combine them?
Input
A word consisting of the ...
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A Capital Cipher
Your task is to decipher a non-empty string consisting of printable ASCII characters in the range [32..126].
Reading the string character per character:
each time you encounter a letter in lowercase,...
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Encrypt a string using vigenere techniques [duplicate]
Your task:
Create a program that encrypts a string with another string using a key, using
the vigenere cipher.
What a vigenere cipher does
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579085261 is CRAZY, 725582 is GOLF, 10757494 is …?
Your task is to translate a 103-smooth number into an English word, using the method described below.
How?
Generate the list of prime factors (with repetition) of the input number.
Sort the list:
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Garbled Phone Numbers
You know how you get a voicemail message and the person's connection wasn't great, and you're trying to figure out how to call them back, but you're not sure if that was a "5" or an "8" they said?
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Incremental Cipher
This task is rather simple, and makes use of three distinct "operator" characters. Your task is, given a simple sequence of letters, perform the following task to encode it using ...
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Let's do some “enciph5r47g”
This is the inverse of Let's do some "deciph4r4ng"
In this challenge, your task is to encipher a string. Luckily, the algorithm is pretty simple: reading from left to right, each ...
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Let's do some “deciph4r4ng”
In this challenge, your task is to decipher a string. Luckily, the algorithm is pretty simple: reading from left to right, each encountered digit N (0 to 9) must be replaced with the character which ...
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Encode the backwards alphabet cipher
Given a string of text that contains lowercase letters, encode it as follows: (I will be using abcdef)
First, encode the alphabet cipher, but this time, 0-indexed. ...
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Encode the simple substitution cipher [duplicate]
Review
First, let's review the Simple Substitution Cipher.
To encode a string in the Simple Substitution Cipher, replace each letter in your string with another letter.
A letter may not be used to ...
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Decode Baby-talk!
When babies open their mouths, they're not just spewing gibberish. They're actually talking in a highly advanced, adult-proof cipher...
The Baby-talk Cipher
When a baby talks, it could look ...
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Encode the column cipher
Given a string to encode, and a number of columns (the key), encode the string as follows:
I will be using the example Hello, world! and the key ...
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Encode the alphabet cipher
Given a string that contains only lowercase letters, encode that string with the alphabet cipher.
To encode with the alphabet cipher (I will be using the example ...
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Marcel Proust and Markov decipher security service’s T9 texts
As if this challenge could be any more Pythonesque in spirit... No prior knowledge of Markov chains or encryption techniques is required.
You are a spy who needs to obtain some crucial information ...
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Columnar Transposition Cipher
Columnar Transposition Cipher
While I have plenty of programs I have written for more advanced ciphers, I just realised I don't actually have one for one of the simplest: Columnar Transposition. The ...
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ADFGX Cipher Encryption
ADFGX cipher encryption
The ADFGX cipher was used by the German army in WWI. Write a program to encipher with it!
It works as follows:
Create a 5x5 Polybius square with a mixed alphabet. The ...
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Caesar Shifting
A Caesar shift is probably something we're all familiar with.
(You might be even doing it as a homework task. If so, please don't copy these answers, your teacher almost certainly doesn't want ...
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Rail fence cipher
Write two programs:
- One which reads a string and a key and encodes the string into a rail-fence cipher using that key.
- Similarly, write a program for the reverse function: deciphering a rail fence ...
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Decipher a Vigenère ciphertext
The Vigenère cipher was a simple polyalphabetic cipher that basically applied one of several Caesar ciphers, according to a key. Bascially the letters in the key indicate which shifted alphabet to use....
