Write-up and Go solver for the Estonian Cybercrime Unit (C3) recruitment CTF: a book cipher keyed to The Hacker Manifesto
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Write-up and Go solver for the Estonian Cybercrime Unit (C3) recruitment CTF: a book cipher keyed to The Hacker Manifesto
Nobody has cracked Beale ciphers B1 and B3, so we modelled how you'd fake one instead. Both match the forgery within 1σ, and real English fits worse. Bayes factors for hoax: roughly 8 to 1,800 (B1) and 150 to 5,400 (B3).
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