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== Task specification ==
I think that there should be a requirement to provide some output. Specifically each solution should output the key length determined, the discovered key, and some of the decrypted text (say a line). --[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 14:14, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
: Well, outputting the key gives the length of the key too, but yeah I could add some details to the output specification. [[User:MagiMaster|MagiMaster]] 04:48, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
== Difficulty and suggested improvements ==
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I suggest to make it more interesting, that we try our algorithms on successively shorter texts (halving the text each time) and see how low we can drive it.--[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 12:28, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
: Well, I put more text since this is supposed to be fully autonomous. I think if you can look at the output, look for word pieces, and use that to improve your guess, you wouldn't need as much text. That said, I did test the algorithm I posted on shorter inputs and it did fine. It was only when the key was fairly long compared to the text that it started to make mistakes. Also, the text I gave is a specific chunk of a certain work. I didn't put the output of my program on the page in case anyone wanted to view this as a puzzle. [[User:MagiMaster|MagiMaster]] 04:48, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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