Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-09 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 11/9/2010 1:29 PM Steven D'Aprano said... I'm pretty sure I tried it, once, but I might be confabulating. Cool -- I learned a new word today! I had to look it up as I thought you were profabulating... :) Emile ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@pyth

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Eike Welk wrote: On Tuesday 09.11.2010 18:36:43 Stefan Behnel wrote: Steven D'Aprano, 09.11.2010 05:01: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/obfuscate Hmm - why is the Windows installer on that page called "linux-i686"? It was probably created on Linux. That would be it. > Python's Distutils crea

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-09 Thread Eike Welk
On Tuesday 09.11.2010 18:36:43 Stefan Behnel wrote: > Steven D'Aprano, 09.11.2010 05:01: > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/obfuscate > > Hmm - why is the Windows installer on that page called "linux-i686"? It was probably created on Linux. Python's Distutils create installers for Windows even on L

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-09 Thread Stefan Behnel
Steven D'Aprano, 09.11.2010 05:01: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/obfuscate Hmm - why is the Windows installer on that page called "linux-i686"? Stefan ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.p

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:28:44PM -0800, Natalie Kristine T. Castillo wrote: > Hi, I need help on how exactly to solve this: > > To send secret messages you and your partner have decided to use the > columnar function you have written to perform columnar transposition > cipher for this course. You

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Luke Pettit
I can suggest that the X should probably be a "D" you may want to check this with your tutor Although as a python noob I don't have the foggiest on how to do this in python, but will keep this for an exercise for if, and when I do. On paper it's pretty simple once you Wikipedia it. On 9 November 2

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Wayne Werner
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Natalie Kristine T. Castillo < ncasti...@umail.ucsb.edu> wrote: > Hi, I need help on how exactly to solve this: > > To send secret messages you and your partner have decided to use the > columnar function you have written to perform columnar transposition cipher > f

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Natalie Kristine T. Castillo wrote: > Hi, I need help on how exactly to solve this: That's nice. > > To send secret messages you and your partner have decided to use the > columnar function you have written to perform columnar transposition cipher > for this course

[Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Natalie Kristine T. Castillo
Hi, I need help on how exactly to solve this: To send secret messages you and your partner have decided to use the columnar function you have written to perform columnar transposition cipher for this course. You have received the ciphertext EXLYHILOSHOOAETU from your friend. You two decide