[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.