I've got a little challenge for you.
ib jb eikybfi eite hvim
Can you translate this encrypted text back to its original form?
If you do, send me an email at math2001.contact@protonmail.com explaining how you found it, and I'll add you to the glorious list of people who found the solution π (see below).
Rules
I guarantee you the original message:
- contains only lower case ASCII letters (
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz) - has the same spaces as in the encrypted message. So you know that the first word will have 2 letters, the second one as well, the third one 7, etc...
- can only translated to one string (the one I gave you)
They found it!
The glorious and amazing people who had a crack and found the secret message!
The list is over here.
Solution
Hey hey. Smart one, looking at the right place, π
I'll be posting the original message, as well as an explanation about how it worked on my blog next week, that is the Friday 1 June 2018.
Top comments (4)
Are we assuming a bijective mapping? I would assume not.
Na, we aren't assuming a bijective mapping (I had to google that one :laugh:).
Explain like I'm five?
In the case of a bijective mapping, every letter is always translated to the same letter. In this case, it isn't (but there's still a logic though).