[serious]I don't think anyone can crack this code!!!

[timeshifter]

I probably spent solid days perfecting this coding system, and I'm going to post it as an attachment, due to its 315 character codes, producing over 1600 total characters...

I'll give you a clue. The number of chit-chat posts required to become a member of the Exclusive Chit chatter's Club is relevant in solving it, but it uses a fairly complex algorithm to actually produce the code.

Don't bother trying to line it up with ASCII, by the way. It was written on a TI-83+SE, so ASCII is irrelevant. I will give you the base character key with the file, though. It would be kind of unfair if I asked you to decode an encryption and you didn't know what any of it meant...

I just want to see if this code can be broken. I've looked at it over and over again and I can't see any definative pattern except that every number is divisible by 5...

EDIT: You might want to turn on the WordWrap when you load it... otherwise, it's kinda hard to read.

[timeshifter]

I see it's gotten a dozen downloads...

Anyone having any luck?

[wossname]

pwnd.

Your comedic talent never ceases to amaze me.

I'll let some of the other chitheads have a go...

[timeshifter]

Ya scared of the system that this code uses?

[wossname]

Originally posted by timeshifter
Ya scared of the system that this code uses?

I have shat scarier things than that. As I said, pwnd

[agmorgan]

Why are you doing this crap on a calculator??

[timeshifter]

I was bored.

Besides, if no one can crack the system that it uses, I'm going to rewrite it on VB... calculator takes forever to code a 315-variable list... VB would take about .04 seconds...

[wossname]

Its nice to have an ambition. But you reckon the NSA wouldn't break this in about zero nanoseconds, with all 4 limbs tied behind their backs, underwater, in the dark, without access to coffee?

Let me re-iterate: PWND!

[timeshifter]

I'd like to see them have a run at it.

Just out of curiosity, of coarse.

[dglienna]

Like a threat from a calculator jockey would get them even mildly interested. I'm not interested in cracking codes. Sorry.

[timeshifter]

Please?

I would give it to some of the kids here, but most of them have IQ's in the middle-range double digits... They'd look at it and say no. I want to see if anyone can actually crack it.

[plenderj]

You realize of course once you actually release this as a compiled executable, it would take minutes to figure out your algorithm?

[timeshifter]

Who said I was planning on releasing it? I just want to stump people with it.

[timeshifter]

Solve it now!!!

[wossname]

Solve it now!!!

You have serious repetition issues in your message. "3600" turns up a at least twice, there are many A & B pairs of numbers where A = 10*B, this all makes factoring much easier.

Must try harder. 2/10

[agmorgan]

Isnt there a SandPaper class for cracking codes?
If not there should be!

[timeshifter]

You have serious repetition issues in your message. "3600" turns up a at least twice, there are many A & B pairs of numbers where A = 10*B, this all makes factoring much easier.

Must try harder. 2/10

The question is, can you figure out what the factor is?

And yes, it is important.