Code Busters C [National Trial]
Posted: April 15th, 2016, 12:39 pm
Discussion for the Code Busters event.
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Re: Code Busters C [National Trial]
Posted: April 20th, 2016, 9:57 am
Huh, that's cool. This used to be a VA trial event... guess it got promoted!
Re: Code Busters C [National Trial]
Posted: May 10th, 2016, 1:38 pm
Does anyone know anything about the nature or difficulty of the test questions?
I'm not sure it's possible to break a Vigenere cipher by hand without any hints, etc.
I'm not sure it's possible to break a Vigenere cipher by hand without any hints, etc.
Re: Code Busters C [National Trial]
Posted: May 10th, 2016, 5:28 pm
It does say that you might be asked to encrypt with a Vigenere cipher, not decrypt it, if that helps.JeZag wrote:Does anyone know anything about the nature or difficulty of the test questions?
I'm not sure it's possible to break a Vigenere cipher by hand without any hints, etc.
Note: Because cryptanalysis with an affine cipher, the Hill Cipher or a Vigenère Cipher is rather difficult, a problem might ask the team to encrypt with one of those ciphers. (In other words, to encode plaintext English writing into encoded ciphertext.)
Re: Code Busters C [National Trial]
Posted: May 11th, 2016, 7:44 pm
Do you know where that quote is from?Person wrote: It does say that you might be asked to encrypt with a Vigenere cipher, not decrypt it, if that helps.Note: Because cryptanalysis with an affine cipher, the Hill Cipher or a Vigenère Cipher is rather difficult, a problem might ask the team to encrypt with one of those ciphers. (In other words, to encode plaintext English writing into encoded ciphertext.)
All I could find relating to event instructions was this file: https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/fil ... rs2014.pdf
But thanks, that's a relief.
Re: Code Busters C [National Trial]
Posted: May 11th, 2016, 10:51 pm
I'm on mobile right now, but if you search "code busters science Olympiad" in Google, either the first or second link has the 2016 trial rules, and right underneath the hierarchy of difficulty it has that text.
Re: Code Busters C [National Trial]
Posted: May 12th, 2016, 1:11 pm
On the National site page for trial events, rules with an asterisk are the ones that will be used at Nationals.T-55M wrote:I'm on mobile right now, but if you search "code busters science Olympiad" in Google, either the first or second link has the 2016 trial rules, and right underneath the hierarchy of difficulty it has that text.