[VicPiMakers Projects] Jim's Challenge - Output 10 (caesar cipher)

Sun Oct 11 12:34:34 EDT 2020

Is it a question of overthinking? Me, I see it as a question of “over” feeling things - on steroids, no less and from here/there,  building a “visual” conceptual foundation of these wonderfully warm feelings for all to see/feel/utilize AND understand.

It kind of needs to contain our existing or newly conceived of “absolute love language”...like an and. And always conjoins so, what word, string, etc? always conjoins the all of the all of us...then, we mirror our movement with/by that spin around the world thing, same as our world, non?

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Hey everyone,

Just solved challenge #1 using Scratch. Hope the new ‘Test’ data will work just as well. Intend on showing you what I did at the end of my presentation on Oct 24.

Have a nice week,
Eileen

On Oct 11, 2020, at 9:15 AM, Michelle Wiboltt <michellewiboltt at outlook.com<mailto:michellewiboltt at outlook.com>> wrote:

Ok, but there IS a watermark? thing...so, this needs to be illustrated meaning, if we’re creating a love �� language we want that to show in its entirety AND if “bad” people “break” in...aren’t they just asking to be included? wouldn’t it be a wanting but not knowing how to be a part of this fabulousity that is the (our) language of love �� So, if they “break” in doesn’t it stand to reason they were left out. Isn’t that our bad?

Also, a language of love would have to be, would need to, continually fortified in order for it to remain foundation-ally strong, right white lights? And, its strength comes from our ever evolving understanding/feeling/sensing/knowing of what our hearts are truly capable of and then, illustrating this in the majesty that WILL be our code that You all create, see?

Also, just a thought, what about that bit coin spin around the world tor thing...if we built our foundation on something like this wouldn’t this keep any nasty extraterrestrials at bay but wouldn’t it also, keep us ALL contained herein, safely.
m

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I agree it's not that clear.

If the goal to be able to simply run the existing code on new input bytes then yes, "BIOPSY" is always the decrypted word since the byte array is the only given input. If the word changes, that hasn't been specified where that input would come from. So, either it doesn't change or the description of the second input is missing.

But using a hard-coded word doesn't sound terribly interesting to code up. You could still write your key finding function to accept two strings of equal length and output the required caesar key. Then for question #10, call it with the word you extract from the input array and the hard-coded target word and write the output key. Then the problem is hard-coded but your code is more generic.

Patrick

On Sun., Oct. 11, 2020, 8:01 a.m. Greg H, <greg.horie at gmail.com<mailto:greg.horie at gmail.com>> wrote:
For me, the confusion is that we're intended to write code to derive the cipher key value. I did this and came up with an answer, but this key is only relevant "HOUVYE" / "BIOPSY".

So should I take this key and make it a constant for future inputs / encryptions? That's what I ended up doing with my final code submission.

I took out the code that solved the problem because unused code seems like lint to me, but maybe I should put it back to show how I did it.

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 17:45, James Briante <briantej at gmail.com<mailto:briantej at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Patrick,
 Yes, you can look at only the first character of the string and use it to get the key. Comparing all characters as the advantage of catching errors in encryption/decryption. The code is just as short using  "compare strings"  of your particular language.

In C int strcmp (const char* str1, const char* str2);, in C++ int CompareText(const AnsiString S1, const AnsiString S2); Pascal ( Delphi) function CompareText(const S1: string; const S2: string): Integer;

Aside: The purpose of the final test data is to see if your outputs are correct when you run your code with the new data. It should work the first time with no changes in the actual code.
Jim

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 4:46 PM George Bowden <gtbowdeng at gmail.com<mailto:gtbowdeng at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Michelle
If you are on a laptop or computer using chrome, you can hold down the CTRL key and tap the letter u .  There are things further back than that but its a start.  As for ink marks showing through, we try to avoid that because it usually reveals security holes that the bad people exploit.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 1:23 PM Michelle Wiboltt <michellewiboltt at outlook.com<mailto:michellewiboltt at outlook.com>> wrote:
Please help:)
Here’s where my crazy comes in, see this image...
<Image.jpeg>
Ok.

Now, if u could think in terms of front back / embroidery and its front back...
So, above is a code interface? But where is the back front and back? Front would be the website, right? So, when I do online shopping, that’s the front. Where is the back view of the front of the website?

Another example, when writing in ink it can show through the backside when held to the light, kind of thing is what I’m trying to understand? Where’s that on the internet?

Thx
m

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Subject: [VicPiMakers Projects] Jim's Challenge - Output 10 (caesar cipher)

I'm looking for clarification on output 10 - caesar cipher problem.

Is the intent to calculate the caesar cipher key value OR is the intent to encrypt the string with a pre-determined key? Initially I thought the question was to discover the cipher key value, but on reflection this seems fragile.

Reasoning:
- "BIOPSY" will work for the 12 integer input that leads to "HOUVYE", but it will not work for any 12 random integers.
- You'd have to reverse engineer your integers starting from "BIOPSY" to get a valid set of 12 integers.

I solved it both ways, but posted only the 2nd solution to github because only the 2nd solution will work for a random set of 12 integers.

I'm curious how other folks solved this one.

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