One of the users there (Let's call him Bob) made a topic titled 'H4x0ring challenge! Crack this 'encryption' function!'. The post inside was:
Bob said:
Part 1: Tell me how you did it
Part 2: Create something that will duplicate it. Go.
(I removed the part that has a word that I don't think is allowed here.)
The first reply was from a user (lets call him Billy):
Billy said:
It's obviously not a real method of encoding, but rather one you wrote. Therefore, without numerous samples to reverse engineer, there's no way you can create a correlation to figure out the general algorithmic relationship.
Billy is known very well for his programming skills, so he knows what he's talking about.
The next response (Let's call the user Jenny):
Jenny said:
This is by far the best encryption function ever! It can be cracked in about 4.6 seconds, but oh well! Who cares? I made it! I'm a scriptkiddie! Kenman (An infamous user on the boards) can probably crack this, and he is the one who probably did it. This isn't the best I can do I'm just lazy. Kelsey is REMOVED hot. I have a crush on her.
1. You just wrote it backwards and switched around letters and spacing, noob.
2. kolot am e!
As you are thinking, Billy just got pwned.
After that was a long argument about how that Bob's 'encryption' wasn't an encryption at all, but an encoded string. After about 50 posts into the topic, Bob said:
Bob said:
If it was impossible to decode, I wouldn't have made this topic.
Billy replied:
Billy said:
Bob said:
k
And he left. He signed off right then and hasn't logged on since. I tried contacting him on AIM for the past couple days, but he never responded. Either he isn't on today or he blocked me and/or all the people he knew from that board, because it says he's offline, and he keeps AIM on all the time (He's always either on or idle). I was good friends will Billy, and I feel kind of depressed that he left. I wasn't on at the time this happened, when I came out about an hour after it, there were dozens of threads about it.
I guess I'm just asking if it's wrong that I feel sad about it.