[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 > I wrote the author of the challenge.  He responded (quoted with
 > permission):
 > (((To be clear, the contents of message2.bin were created by xor-ing my
 > English plain text with a chunk of a jpg file which is NOT on the web.
 > It is a picture I took myself and scanned.  I am interested to see if
 > anyone can use statistical techniques or special knowledge of jpg's to
 > crack this without the key.)))

One time pads are supposed to be random. If they are not, they are not
one time pads.

Ignore this fool and his challenge.

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