Here’s the same messages as before coded with pad X-5
6f a1 82 f4 74 1b c3 82 ef e7 64 8a 39 7a 52 53
dc e4 ba b1 70 8d 0b 5c 58 c4 f1 75 84 9f 78 88
f2 9c 9f fd f5 23 6b fa d5 34 7c 40 4a e5 0f a5
4d c0 91 ca 29 86 d8 be 88 a9 c4 29 3c f8 9f e6
9b 5b 73 3b 55 74 cb ad ac ab 89 c3 de 85 77 26
7a d8 2f 6f 6b 23 09 06 07 84 92 f1 f6 4a 16 f3
9e aa 5c 49 4f f1 fe ac 44 0e 18 d5 66 40 6c 9d
9e 60 91 47 c4 e0 a0 a2 8a a6 3f ce 8f 19 27 11
07 4e 5f 8e 81 ca b0 70 37 e4 6c 18 da 1d 84 60
0c be fb 38 34 4a e2 38 4c 9d 7f 08 2b 39 68 26
c1 a5 4e de d1 60 d2 59 4d 36 7e 78 3a df 68 e6
28 03 19 0c 79 30 27 9a 8c be 50 bb 4f 84 7c 50
20 df 99 29 89 4a 42 ee b3 e8 b6 01 5d e6 48 45
6f 3d 3b ff 08 6b f7 9e e9 8c 01 4d ed 59 2b f0
0c 7c 00 86 16 c6 37 40 25 91 cf 84 2f 43 1e ca
d8 7a 69 72 66 d7 f9 a2 02 e7 ec 95 71 10 76 c6
7e 83 da 91 6d 6c 10 63 f3 aa c5 83 cf 7c 03 44
94 b0 47 bc aa 74 2b d6 88 9c 37 ef b3 df 9d c0
be 54 75 33 ef 1f 0f 7f fc 77 ca 1c 71 d0 fe e4
56 c9 79 9b e5 b5 89 ee 04 65 cb 70 28 c6 02 18
d0
Orion had both given a nice program (Wakazachi – that’s a Japanese short sword) for me to encode things and has this program for windows users to decode. If you don’t have Windows, Orion provided this webpage to get the job done.
Everyone praise Orion now!!
When preparations are done, we should be able to have quicker response time for the actual mission.
Remember the first and second rules…
FOOL!
Using the same exact message for with two different keys has compromised your security. Now the message is vunerable to attack.
Except that maybe this one won’t have mistakes in it. So they’re not identical.
PGP, it’s the only way to do this securly… but anyway, thanks Orion.
Yeah, but where’s the fun in THAT?
Orion
All hail Orion! He makes decoding easy!
/ gratuitous praise
Poo on the Limey and his ilk
I still haven’t received my decoder. And I don’t remember the first & second rules.
ack how do you use this thing? Pad? what’s pad? my sister says she knows what pads are, but I think we mean different things…
Download and set up the decoder program then read EVERYTHING in the help file 😉
The link to the decoder program isn’t working. Can someone set up a mirror?
Never mind – it started working again out of spite.
/praises Orion
I can now understand Frank’s all important messages =D
Frank, if there were a message and we were to decode that message, it would be really “spy like” to print the message out and eat it. But I’m not saying I know anything about a message.
praise orion? you mean now i have to make my ritual goat scrifices/ blood-drinking ceremonies to worship him instead of the almight Fank .j? aw, bugger.
I got it! I got it! Finally everything is working right.
BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE
Huh?
I signed up for the fan club list but never got sent the one time pads. I downloaded the decoder but I can’t paste anything into any of the text boxes. And I can’t find the easter egg. Anyone want to commit treason against FrankJ and help me figure out how to decode the messages?
I never got the pad either!!!! whines
Aww. I wanna know what the easter egg is. I went to all the trouble of getting Virtual PC and everything and now I can’t figure it out. Kind of sad I can get windows running on a Mac but I can’t figure out a simple easter egg.
Jason,
Select the message from here, then press CTRL-C to copy it, then click in the CODE box on Katana and press CTRL-V – that SHOULD work – if it doesn’t, drop me an e-mail and we’ll whip it into shape!
Of course, if you don’t have the one-time pad, it won’t do you any good…Sounds like something’s going on with the Fan Clubs – everyone checks their Bulk-Mail folder, right? My first message from the fan club got auto-sorted into the bit-bucket, so I created a magnet for it. (POPFile rules – 99.4% accurate on gettin’ rid of the spam!)
Orion
Wow, a program actually worked for me. Orion, you are so super cool! Even a history major could figure it out. =)
Damn you BerkeleyChick- it won’t let ME run the program! Must be a conspiracy… that’s the only plausible explanation 😛
Drop me a line, BerkeleyGirl, and we’ll find out what the trouble is!
And thanks, everyone, for all the comments! Suggestions are welcome.
Orion
Crap- now I have no good reason to drink all those G’s. Anyway, thanks Orion, nice job!
Hey, I’m a history major and I figured it out.
But then again I’m also a Mac user.
wow, that message was so * this message deleted due to noncomliance with Frank J. Fanclub Rules *
Hooray Orion!!
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But it was fun to decode it by hand…
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Mac? Macintosh? Frank J. has fans that use a Mac?
Frank – you need to have these people investigated ASAP as in-fill-traitors. Only liberals use Macs. Jeezum.
cough
W uses a Mac.
I made a Mac OS X app to do decoding only, but without a real pad I can’t tell if its accurate or not.
If someone with a one-time pad and has Mac OS X (10.3 would be best) wants to try it you can download it here:
http://www.exittoshell.com/downloads/IMAO.sit
If it doesn’t work properly I will tweak it, there is an email address link in the archive.
Yay Orion!
W doesn’t use shit – he has “people” for that.
But I hear Al Jizznearya uses Mac.
Man, the Mac/PC war is more important than politics? Freakin’ A. We’re on the same side, rockynoggin!
I can’t help it if my OS works better.
Um, what do I sign up for to get the appropriate decryption info? I think I missed seeing some post or something…
I quit, I send in my five dollars for the secret decoder ring and all I get is this drivel. It might be time to join the Anti-Frank J. League of American, east coast division.
Okay I fixed the Mac OS X decoder to at least run on other people’s computers (damn new developer tools have to be all fancy, break my stuff why don’t ya).
http://www.exittoshell.com/downloads/IMAO.sit
I just want to comment to the first post and say that repeating a message does not help crack One-Time Pad. It’s still invincible without the key. Only using a pad twice compromises security.
Using a pad twice also compromises hygine.
Actually Frank, if you’d foolishly used the pseudo-random-number-generator in your computer instead of a pure random source like atmospheric noise to generate the pads, using two pads on the same message would give an enormous boost to statistical methods of cracking the pad sequence.
Of course, only a spatula-wielding ninja would do something so foolish.
If you hit “decrypt” with blank web-form fields, you get one of those “most useful popups in the world” thingys.
So what if you treat the message as the key? Pretend that Frank mixed up message and key. Both are unknown and can be random. The only difference is that since the message is a message, it has a lower entropy.
So, now he has used the same key(message) to send two different messages(keys).
How is that different?
I registered and everything, and still didn’t get my email. This fan club thing is a gyp! I want all my money back!
AC,
Since the pads are completely random (well, I used random.org), it XOR’d with a non random message equals a completely random output. The same non-random message XOR’d with another random pad gives you another completely random output. No relation can be deduced between those two outputs… as long as the pads really are completely random.
I took one look at my pad and started to cry! Whyyyyyyyy does this have to be so hard??! Can’t you just email me what the message is? I’m at work here, I don’t have the time to…well…work! I only have time to type a message into your comments section, the rest of my time is spent shuffling papers..
Orion, you rock! I decrypted the first message somewhat-manually (though I used Excel for conversions because I’m a CPA & Excel’s my solution for everything) and was so happy when I got back from my 3-day internet blackhole and downloaded the awesome Katana. So now I can consider the first work a labor of love for Frank J.
Nice work Orion.
And Frank, could we get a copy of ‘Wakazachi’ so that us fans can message each other in code and such?
Just an idea.
AC, the difference is that two messages from one pad creates two different but ordered pieces of information, whereas one message through two pads does not. It’s the ordering of the message that’s used to break it, not simple repitition.