A challenge!

[-Ramirez-]

Originally posted by GrowlZ1010
Just out of interest, how did you get the last four digits of the final checksum, and how hard do you think it would be to get an entire one without any obvious clues or hints?

I just looked at the different letters in the sections separated by a space. I put together different word combinations and found which words worked with the previous words I already had from the first four digits. If I hadn't had any of the first four digits, AND the string was completely different, it would have been far more difficult to figure out.

Note that the two strings both start with "This is a". That's what made it easier. :P

Oh, the script. I just made it so I could use it offline pretty easily.

NPC Code:

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if (created) setstring this.checksum,14259735;

if (playerchats) {

  if (startswith(ENC-,#c)) {

    unset this.realstr;

    setstring this.str,#e(4,-1,#c);

    this.checksumparse = 0;

    for (this.a = 0;this.a < strlen(#s(this.str));) {

      setstring this.realstr,#s(this.realstr)#e(this.a,1,#s(this.s  tr));

      this.a += strtofloat(#e(this.checksumparse,1,#s(this.checksu  m))) + 1;

      this.checksumparse++;

      if (this.checksumparse == strlen(#s(this.checksum))) this.checksumparse = 0;

    }

    message #s(this.realstr);

  }

}

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