The Thirteenth Labour

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The absolute basics

  • We assume a block of text has been scrambled (encrypted) so that we cannot read it
  • the RC5.64 standard refers to how it has been scrambled
  • This scrambling requires a 'Key' to unlock it - we are searching for that key.
  • So there are two camps
    • one camp is supplying thousands of words randomly as keys to see if that produces anything reasonable
    • The other camp is trying to figure out the appropriate word (perhaps using the Labours of Hercules as a clue) then trying that word
    • http://www.connected.ltd.uk/pxc/
  • Of course, if we are wrong about the encryption standard, then we are fairly fubarred, but it would appear that all roads point to it.
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