Challenge #163: Caesar Cipher (on the way to Kryptos)

[Reesetrain2]

Hi All,

My submission!

-I think that the only difference between my submission and others is that I took the Cypher right from the Wikipedia page and then tokenized it from there...

-Cheers!

Matt

[ggruccio]

I think this is what you are looking for!

[bkclaw113]

I really love working these out on my own and then looking at how others handled the problem to see new approaches.

My first take at this was a little clunky but worked by generating a row for each letter in the original message and then applying the rotation, then using the crosstab to put the rows back into a column.

After looking at some of the other responses I realized that the regexp -tokenize was a more efficient approach with summary to pull everything back together.

[shnbrb]

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Here is my solution, used Join+Union (to bring back spaces & punctuation etc) rather than Find & Replace used in other solutions. Preferred to use a Letter mapping rather than Char to Int as you also need to account for the Unicode integer.

Thanks!

[simons]

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[kelly_gilbert]

These cryptography challenges are so much fun! This one reminded me of having a "secret language" with my friends in middle school, so we could write notes in class (it was just a simple substitution cipher).

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First, the macro... It takes inputs of a string, the shift direction (right or left), and the shift value (number of positions, 1-25)...  I should probably simplify that formula:




The outer workflow for parts 1 and 2:



Solution to part 1 (ha ha):



Solution to part 2 (assuming a right shift):

[NatSnook]

solution attached thanks 

[NilsM]

please find my solution attached

[Carlithian]

Really interesting :) love deciphering codes

Need to make this a macro but this is where I got to

[JoshuaGostick]

Really enjoyed that one. Did Part 1 normally and then converted it into a batch macro to get the correct message from Part 2.

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