Advanced Topics Challenge #10, dubbed “Veni, Vidi, Vici” is an immersive challenge designed to train your mind, as well as improve your teamwork skills. (=^-^= see what I did there? I took a perfectly good challenge and made it into a teamwork exercise) It also dabbles into hacking and cracking.

How it works
To enter this challenge, you must sign up with one of the applications below this transmission. After joining, you have to work with your team to write a program that can take a string that has been encoded using my program, which I have provided, and break at least one of the encryption levels(currently two). There are two options for doing this.

• Option 1: Write the program in another programming language and upload it to your team's folder on the github repository with the name "[TEAMNAME] vs encrypt v[version]". You can then work on either building on the team's current encrypter, making your own in a different language, or doing the same for the crackers(yes, everyone makes a partial cracker to start. however, you also need an official cracker and official encrypter for your team).
  
• Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^. Feel free to notify me on this thread whenever you update them, in that case.
  

Rules/Suggestions

1. Assuming your encryption is set up similar to mine is, with the “encrypt2(encrypt1())”, please place the encryption layers from weakest to hardest.
   
2. Your programs can theoretically be in any programming language, but it's helpful not only to the other competitors, but also to me if you make them in a language that does not require compiling.
   
3. When joining a team, please choose a team that has less members than the rest, if applicable.
   
4. If there are already more than 10 teams (which likely won't happen), you cannot make another one and must join one of the existing ones.
   
5. All programs submitted or updated after 23:59 PM Eastern Time(04:59 UTC), December 23rd(24th UTC), 2016, will not be counted in the scoring.
   
6. All programs using the work of someone not participating in this challenge without giving credit will be disqualified. That being said, feel free to steal each other's work xP
   
7. Uploading a program means that you promise that it can be decrypted, and when the contest is over, you must show your solution. If you fail to, you and all your programs will be instantly disqualified
   

Scoring
My encryption program will be updated once a week, each time adding two new encryption algorithms. Each time your team makes a program that breaks at least one of my encryptions(in order from first(outer-most) to last(inner-most), your team earns 200 points per encryption broken. Multiple programs of the same language are not counted, I will just score whichever of that language breaks the most in order. However, programs in different languages are counted. i.e. If a team has the programs “Hogwarts vs encrypt v2.0.js”(breaks 2 encryptions), “Hogwarts vs encrypt v2.0.js”(breaks 1 encryption), and “Hogwarts vs encrypt v2.0.py”(breaks 3 encryptions), I would count the first and the third, scoring a total of 1000 points.

Now, here's where the scoring gets fun. As I said before, each team will have one official encryption. Whenever someone adds an encryption method, it should be posted as a separate file, so that the different versions can all be scored. Again, no duplicates of the same language (other than new versions, but those aren't really duplicates xP), and different languages are allowed. You are awarded 1000 points per encryption unbroken by any other team. Each time that an encryption of your team's is broken by a cracker of the same language, 100 points are taken away from that. Each time a cracker of yours breaks an encryption of another team, you also receive 100 points. That's pretty much it. Tell me if you need something clarified, or want something to be added.

Have fun, and Scratch On!

Team Start-up
Team Name(age-appropriate for Scratch, and please don't make it long):
Members(the people, not the amount):

Team Join
Team you are joining:
Hat Color(optional, look below for descriptions)

Hat Colors

• White Hat: Focuses mainly on making the team encrypter.
  
• Black Hat: Focuses mainly on reverse-engineering the encrypters of the other teams, and developing crackers to match.
  
• Blue Hat: Doesn't really focus on one thing in particular, just updates and makes newer and better versions of the team software
  
• Grey Hat: All-rounded programmer. Does a little bit of everything
  

Team Unus

• BookOwl - Grey Hat
  
• -stache- - Grey Hat
  

Team Icy

• IcyCoder - White Hat(White Hat, for those with light screens)
  
• TheUltimatum - Black Hat
  
• jokebookservice1 - Grey Hat
  

Team Meme

• MegaApuTurkUltra
  
• goldfish678
  

xkcd hats

• algmwc5 - Black Hat
  
• Mrcomputer1 - Grey Hat
  
• -Io- - Grey Hat
  

Back to OP

Saiid

Advanced Topics Challenge #10, dubbed “Veni, Vidi, Vici” is an immersive challenge designed to train your mind, as well as improve your teamwork skills. (=^-^= see what I did there? I took a perfectly good challenge and made it into a teamwork exercise) It also dabbles into hacking and cracking.

How it works
To enter this challenge, you must sign up with one of the applications below this transmission. After joining, you have to work with your team to write a program that can take a string that has been encoded using my program, which I have provided, and break at least one of the encryption levels(currently two). There are two options for doing this.

• Option 1: Write the program in another programming language and upload it to your team's folder on the github repository with the name "[TEAMNAME] vs encrypt v[version]". You can then work on either building on the team's current encrypter, making your own in a different language, or doing the same for the crackers(yes, everyone makes a partial cracker to start. however, you also need an official cracker and official encrypter for your team).
  
• Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^. Feel free to notify me on this thread whenever you update them, in that case.
  

Rules/Suggestions

1. Assuming your encryption is set up similar to mine is, with the “encrypt3(encrypt2(encrypt1()))”, please place the encryption layers from weakest to hardest(which is how mine is, and it helps so that you can have a reasonable yet unbreakable-via-simple-reverse-engineering encryption for the last layer).
   
2. Your programs can theoretically be in any programming language, but it's helpful not only to the other competitors, but also to me if you make them in a language that does not require compiling.
   
3. When joining a team, please choose a team that has less members than the rest, if applicable.
   
4. If there are already more than 10 teams (which likely won't happen), you cannot make another one and must join one of the existing ones.
   
5. All programs submitted or updated after 23:59 PM Eastern Time(04:59 UTC), December 23rd(24th UTC), 2016, will not be counted in the scoring.
   
6. All programs using the work of someone not participating in this challenge without giving credit will be disqualified. That being said, feel free to steal each other's work xP
   

Scoring
My encryption program will be updated once a week, each time adding two new encryption algorithms. Each time your team makes a program that breaks at least one of my encryptions(in order from first(outer-most) to last(inner-most), your team earns 200 points per encryption broken. Multiple programs of the same language are not counted, I will just score whichever of that language breaks the most in order. However, programs in different languages are counted. i.e. If a team has the programs “Hogwarts vs encrypt v2.0.js”(breaks 2 encryptions), “Hogwarts vs encrypt v2.0.js”(breaks 1 encryption), and “Hogwarts vs encrypt v2.0.py”(breaks 3 encryptions), I would count the first and the third, scoring a total of 1000 points.

Now, here's where the scoring gets fun. As I said before, each team will have one official encryption. Whenever someone adds an encryption method, it should be posted as a separate file, so that the different versions can all be scored. Again, no duplicates of the same language (other than new versions, but those aren't really duplicates xP), and different languages are allowed. You are awarded 1000 points per encryption unbroken by any other team. Each time that an encryption of your team's is broken by a cracker of the same language, 100 points are taken away from that. Each time a cracker of yours breaks an encryption of another team, you also receive 100 points. That's pretty much it. Tell me if you need something clarified, or want something to be added.

Have fun, and Scratch On!

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

-Io- wrote:

snip

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

I don't trust you to do this (well). What should I do?

birdoftheday wrote:

you won the scratch forums

BookOwl wrote:

Team Start Up
Team Name: Team Unus (or “one” in Latin)
Members: I guess 3

I'm joining my team as a Grey Hat

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

I don't trust you to do this (well). What should I do?

Well, why not? lol.

BookOwl wrote:

Team Start Up
Team Name: Team Unus (or “one” in Latin)
Members: I guess 3

I'm joining my team as a Grey Hat

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

I don't trust you to do this (well). What should I do?

Well, why not? lol.

Because my Scratch projects can be very complicated and I wouldn't expect anyone to convert them to another programming language very well.

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

I don't trust you to do this (well). What should I do?

Well, why not? lol.

Because my Scratch projects can be very complicated and I wouldn't expect anyone to convert them to another programming language very well.

You know, I feel kind of insulted. I've been scratching for over two years(officially two years as of today, but I lurked before that), and coding for very nearly that long. Trust me, I can translate it -_-

Saiid

-stache- wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

I don't trust you to do this (well). What should I do?

Well, why not? lol.

Because my Scratch projects can be very complicated and I wouldn't expect anyone to convert them to another programming language very well.

You know, I feel kind of insulted. I've been scratching for over two years(officially two years as of today, but I lurked before that), and coding for very nearly that long. Trust me, I can translate it -_-

Saiid

He doesn't know anything about you, so he wants to take it into his own hands. I think that's ok

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

I don't trust you to do this (well). What should I do?

Well, why not? lol.

Because my Scratch projects can be very complicated and I wouldn't expect anyone to convert them to another programming language very well.

You know, I feel kind of insulted. I've been scratching for over two years(officially two years as of today, but I lurked before that), and coding for very nearly that long. Trust me, I can translate it -_-

Saiid

dzaima wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

I don't trust you to do this (well). What should I do?

Well, why not? lol.

Because my Scratch projects can be very complicated and I wouldn't expect anyone to convert them to another programming language very well.

You know, I feel kind of insulted. I've been scratching for over two years(officially two years as of today, but I lurked before that), and coding for very nearly that long. Trust me, I can translate it -_-

Saiid

you know, multithreading is not that easy. Also, a lot of stuff would be way different and would need many big changes (stuff like what math does with NaNs, undefineds, division by 0, letter of with too large or small numbers, case detection, MOD implementation, list implementation, lists called by variables not hard-coded values, ect).

IcyCoder wrote:

Team Name(age-appropriate for Scratch, and please don't make it long): Team Icy
Members(preferably 2-3, 1 is acceptable if nobody will join you): 3?
White Hats

Saiid wrote:

dzaima wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

I don't trust you to do this (well). What should I do?

Well, why not? lol.

Because my Scratch projects can be very complicated and I wouldn't expect anyone to convert them to another programming language very well.

You know, I feel kind of insulted. I've been scratching for over two years(officially two years as of today, but I lurked before that), and coding for very nearly that long. Trust me, I can translate it -_-

Saiid

you know, multithreading is not that easy. Also, a lot of stuff would be way different and would need many big changes (stuff like what math does with NaNs, undefineds, division by 0, letter of with too large or small numbers, case detection, MOD implementation, list implementation, lists called by variables not hard-coded values, ect).

If it can be done in Scratch, I can do it in JavaScript (pure data manipulation, that is. not stuff like the pen and looks etc)

Saiid

when green flag clicked
forever
  set [hi v] to (Days Since 2000)
end

when green flag clicked
forever
  set [hi v] to [lol]
end

-stache- wrote:

Saiid wrote:

dzaima wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

_nix wrote:

Saiid wrote:

Option 2: Do the same as for option 1, except write your programs in Scratch. If you choose this option, I will just go through your project, translate it to javascript, and upload it to your team's folder on github ^-^.

I don't trust you to do this (well). What should I do?

Well, why not? lol.

Because my Scratch projects can be very complicated and I wouldn't expect anyone to convert them to another programming language very well.

You know, I feel kind of insulted. I've been scratching for over two years(officially two years as of today, but I lurked before that), and coding for very nearly that long. Trust me, I can translate it -_-

Saiid

you know, multithreading is not that easy. Also, a lot of stuff would be way different and would need many big changes (stuff like what math does with NaNs, undefineds, division by 0, letter of with too large or small numbers, case detection, MOD implementation, list implementation, lists called by variables not hard-coded values, ect).

If it can be done in Scratch, I can do it in JavaScript (pure data manipulation, that is. not stuff like the pen and looks etc)

Saiid

Um give me an example of

when green flag clicked
forever
  set [hi v] to (Days Since 2000)
end

when green flag clicked
forever
  set [hi v] to [lol]
end

in js