Challenge!

hi guys, i stumbled upon this news article: http://news.yahoo.com/crack-code-british...44837.html

this links directly to: http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/

seeing as i understand about 1% of what you all are talking about in this subforum, i challenge any of you to solve it!

EDIT: i realised that the solution can be found on the news article itself, but i still don't understand it ><

That code reminds me of Summer Wars. Something about a 256bit code.

hi guys, i stumbled upon this news article: http://news.yahoo.com/crack-code-british...44837.html

this links directly to: http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/

seeing as i understand about 1% of what you all are talking about in this subforum, i challenge any of you to solve it!

EDIT: i realised that the solution can be found on the news article itself, but i still don't understand it ><

It has to be solved with a decoding program I think. The "solution" seems to use some kind of programming language. Looks like it's up to Fiel and Eos to decrypt this.

It has to be solved with a decoding program I think. The "solution" seems to use some kind of programming language. Looks like it's up to Fiel and Eos to decrypt this.

It looks like C to me (which one exactly I dunno).

I've done something like this before, except I knew roughly what I was looking for, and there was a lot of encrypted data. This one however looks to be about a sentence's worth of data, which makes it very difficult. Regardless, it's going to involve extensive knowledge of encryption, tons of guesswork, and consequently, tons of time.

Speaking of guesswork, without running the "solution", I would have to say that the answer should be something that would at least make sense to a human and not just chaotic garbage. The ultimate answer may or may not lay within multiple iterations of decryption though, although it would most likely be a unicode string of nonsense.

Just you wait. The code will be "ATTACK AT DAWN" (lololol)

But the code the guy posted is needlessly complicated. He included the assembly instructions in an encrypted array, decrypts the array, and then executes the array. Looks like the dude didn't want to give away the answer but wanted you to figure it out for yourself.

That's ANSI C that he's likely executing on Arch Linux which must be executed on a 32-bit kernel. That wouldn't be a problem for Windows.

The solution was pretty easy then. Hint, download the image.

I'm not saying I cracked it myself. But it wasn't too bad to decrypt it.

Just you wait. The code will be "ATTACK AT DAWN" (lololol)

But the code the guy posted is needlessly complicated. He included the assembly instructions in an encrypted array, decrypts the array, and then executes the array. Looks like the dude didn't want to give away the answer but wanted you to figure it out for yourself.

That's ANSI C that he's likely executing on Arch Linux which must be executed on a 32-bit kernel. That wouldn't be a problem for Windows.

Is there an... english translation to this?