Mision Basic X6

[Gatito]

I'm just trying figure out how one would determine to use ascii for this mission?

You assume it supports at the very minimum ASCII. But in the case you're a doubtful spirit I did an interesting little experiment for determining how strings get encrypted and put the "Ѫ" (spider character)(also note forum works with Unicode) which is in Unicode and encrypted it, with the result being "&$3475A". So you get 7 characters for the price of one.

The conclusion of the experiment:
The code behind encryption works on a byte per byte basis ( 1 byte = 1 ASCII char.) so it sees the spider character as a series of 7 bytes. Encryption works with bytes and bits, ASCII is just meaningless to it. But for us it gives the look that it works on a character basis but with a Unicode character we see it's clearly not the case.

As a person, I know that the letter 'd' is two character values from the letter 'a'

Because of ASCII but I could invent my unique scheme with 'a' and 'd' being x values apart. Also didn't you mean 3 char values apart?

But what determines the values for the system I am decoding?

The Encoding Scheme.

How do I know the values for 'a' is still 1 and 'd' is still 4?

Again you assume the system supports ASCII because of its broad use but under different circumstances besides Unicode another more exotic Encoding Scheme could be used.

[DingoBebe]

Very interesting and helpful! Thank you very much.

But now I have to ask, what determines that the spider character is 7 bytes?

[Slahd]

Yay! I did it! And according to one user, it is truly basic mathematics. More specifically, it's basic Algebra. I found out what was happening and just made a equation. Then I reversed that equation to get what I wanted.

[fashizzlepop]

More importantly, it's an Algorithm.

[carcass454]

im stuck at basic mission 6 since 3 days i did read almost all the hints but i still dont understand..is there a simple way you guys can explain me how to decrypt? i feel stupid now.. (sorry if i made mistakes im french and i hope its not spoiler)

[winter-owned]

I figured out the algorithm which took a few minutes. I accidentally re-encrypted the password the first time. I went the other direction to figure out the password. I entered my solution and was told I had the wrong answer. I double checked. Still wrong. I read the entire thread and it seemed many people had the same problem.

I was about to PM fashizzlepop the encrypted password and my solution when I decided to triple check. One of my characters was capitalized when it shouldn't have been. I went back and the solution worked.

[occamsrzr]

Wait...wat? the ASCII table isn't needed at all for this mission. There is a MUCH easier way to do it, but would ONLY work IF you had access to the script (which in this case, luckily we do).

[occamsrzr]

Wait....are you guys referring to Mission Basic 6 or Extbasic 6? Must be Mission Basic 6, cuz then it makes sense =)

Sorry, was confused by the 'X6'

[JaxelGnoll]

All I needed to figure out this one was to type the same thing into the encrypter, like '111111'. Then you will understand what it's doing.

[fauxpas09]

i have no idea how to use the ASCII table. can someone please help me??????????????

It's just a table that shows the characters and their decimal, hex etc equivalents. For example, if a user gives a program the letter 'a', and the program must give back the next letter, how will the program do it. Assuming it doesn't have any arrays to use, what it can do is convert the letter 'a' to its decimal equivalent '97' add one '98' and convert back to a character 'b'. This encryption alters the letters, so you need to find out WHAT the change is that it's doing, and then you'll realise why the ascii table is useful

This post was really helpful for me. Had no idea what to do.

I suggest you type in 'a' and try it, then try 'ab' and see what it does. Finally try 'abc'. You should see a pattern.