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I have the ciphertext and an encrypting program (with the key hardcoded in). How would I go about finding the key? Surely the availability of the encryptor must open up possibilities beyond brute-forcing it.
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;; structure representing homework points
;; nr: number - the number of the homework
;; points: number - the number of points reached
(define-struct homework (nr points))
;; parse-homework: (list of number pairs) -> (list of homework)
;; The procedure takes a list of number pairs and produces…
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Okay so I have started a new language in class. We are learning Scheme and i'm not sure on how to do it. When I say learning a new language, I mean thrown a homework and told to figure it out. A couple of them have got me stumped.
My first problem is:
Write a Scheme function that returns true (the…
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I'm very new to Unix, and currently taking a class learning the basics of the system and its commands.
I'm looking for a single command line to list off all of the user home directories in alphabetical order from the /etc/passwd directory. This applies only to the home directories, and not the contents…
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Hi,
For a school project i need to write or use a online programming editor. It is a part of a bigger project. I thought of a java application, php/html/javascript or flash.
I have a couple of things i could do:
Find a good working application and edit it so it works with the rest of the project
Find…
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Consider a disk file containing 100 records
a. How many comparisons would be required on the average to find a record using sequential search, if the record is known to be in the file?
I figured out that this is 100/2 = 50.
b. If the record has a 68% probability of being in the file, how many comparisons…
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I've just upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard and got my Rails environment up and running. The only difference -- OSX aside -- with my previous install is that I'm now running ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0] (Snow Leopard default) rather than 1.8.6.
I'm now seeing deprecation…
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Simple substitution cipher written in java that shifts the key every encoded character
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I'm running a Lucid Netbook Remix on my Dell Inspiron 600m and I was not able to connect to the wireless network at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View yesterday. There were plenty of other people on the network - MS, Mac, and Linux boxes - but my laptop would never get an ip address. I can connect to…
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Hello i'm new to Java and i have the following problem: i'm trying to encrypt the password of a user using the blowfish algorithm, but when i try to decrypt it back to check the authentication it fails to decrypt it for some reason.
public static String encryptBlowFish(String to_encrypt, String salt){
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The Problem
Our systems admin needed to upgrade the packages on our CentOS 5.4 dev server to match the packages on our production server. The upgrade affected ruby and/or openssl.
We run a Ruby on Rails issue tracking system called Redmine that is deployed with Passenger on Apache. Everything worked…
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