Noob cryptologist

[admin]

Being a hacker is like being young Jedi, you have to start with simple codes before you work your way up to harder ones. So you decided to take a crack at the noob cipher (see description here). The goal of this puzzle is to decrupt a message encoded with the noob cipher without having the substitution table.

Input Specifications

Two files are given in input:

1. the first file is a dictionary of allowed words

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[al13n]

How long are the messsages? Are they valid texts or phrases or just any combinations of words?

[Sai Fujiwara]

Are all the cipher words in the dictionary? Will any of the message contain low-case letter, number or punctuation -- not a letter?

[admin]

All words are in the dictionary, all in upper case. No punctuation.

And the dictionary is made of real English words.

[Valera]

The dictionary contains lines with spaces in end of line, isn't it?

[admin]

There are no trailing spaces in the dictionaries of words used for this test.
Each line contains only the word and a '\n' character at the end of the line.

[Valera]

There are no trailing spaces in the dictionaries of words used for this test.
Each line contains only the word and a '\n' character at the end of the line.

Are you sure? I asked this question because my solution on Java didn't work, while I didn't "trim" words from dictionary.

[admin]

Valera, yes I ran a check before answering, that's why I confirmed there were no trailing spaces.
I am not sure why your solution doesn't work but I doubt it's a trailing space issue.
The dictionaries being used are similar to the one being used for roman hackerus (they are subsets), so if you can work with one dictionary, then you can work with the other. May be your program has a different issue ?

[Valera]

I tested my solution, and I think, the second file contains spaces or tabs in lines' end, isn't it? My solution work if I 'trim' input lines and don't work otherwise.

[admin]

Valera, I rechecked and the dictionaries have no trailing spaces.
Are you talking about the dictionaries or the encrypted messages ?