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jdege	Apr 9 2008, 11:56 AM
Elite member Posts: 263 Group: Admin Member #246 Joined: December 7, 2006	Paarth Dave Apr 9 2008, 12:38 AM Quote: BTW - there are only 25 prime numbers between 1 and 100. No...there are 26 prime numbers.... They are as follows: 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61,67,71,73,79,83,89,91 and 97.. 91 isn't prime. And as far as "as the ciphertext looks so complex with different characters", I expect that anyone with any interest in crypto - certainly anyone who might try to crack an unfamiliar cipher - knows enough not to be thrown by an unusual character set. More than 150 years ago, when Edgar Allen Poe first published his challenges to the readers, he claimed that he'd be able to break any substitution cipher, no matter how outlandish the character set. In truth, he didn't know much, but he did know that the symbology was of no relevance whatsoever. (He published one example of a cipher that he couldn't break, explaining to his readers that the author was engaged in a fraud, "proving" that it couldn't have been a real cipher. In fact, it was encrypted using a Vigenere cipher, instead of simple substitution. Oops!)
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