> If you enjoyed this challenge and want to learn more about cryptology, you > should have a look at the Matasano Crypto Challenges <http://cryptopals.com/> > which has much more of the same sort of thing. Last nights task is basically > the same as challenge 6 <http://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/6/> which is > in the first “warm up” set (and which I’ve done and is why I knew about the > frequency analysis approach). They go on to cover a large range of crypto > subjects – I’ve learned a lot doing them (and still haven’t finished). Some > of them are quite tricky, but are worth it.
Those Matasano challenges are really interesting, I learnt a heap doing the (very) few I managed to complete. For those that want to have a crack at them in Ruby, I'd recommend this checking out this blog post on byte manipulation first: http://www.happybearsoftware.com/byte-manipulation-in-ruby <http://www.happybearsoftware.com/byte-manipulation-in-ruby>. That’ll put you in good stead getting starting. Tekin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
