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:

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 Linux.

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 create

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] 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

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 ncasti...@umail.ucsb.edu 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

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 for

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

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