🔒 decrypt

[radiant merlin]

im trying to decrypt these 3 lines:

148AFAD1_1A7E4E98D94D48_317F9E76

72A9728_173A818E19F959_2EAD0A5A

F9786C0_10F071C4029F42_D0A8855

and the result for every line should be 217540394. I tried using basic math but i dont get the result that i want, this is my code:

def decode_line(line):
parts = line.split('_')
total = 0
for part in parts:
num = int(part, 16)
print(f"Parte: {part}, Decimal: {num}, Total parcial: {total}")
return total

line1 = "148AFAD1_1A7E4E98D94D48_317F9E76"
line2 = "72A9728_173A818E19F959_2EAD0A5A"
line3 = "F9786C0_10F071C4029F42_D0A8855"

total = decode_line(line1) + decode_line(line2) + decode_line(line3)
print(f"Total final: {total}")

this code gives the sum of every line, but i dont want that, i want the result (217540394)

pls help

[fair osprey]

@radiant merlin

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[radiant merlin]

ty

[cold trail]

the function will always return 0 as it never does anything else with total

[radiant merlin]

!code

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[radiant merlin]

    parts = line.split('_') 
    total = 0
    for part in parts:
        num = int(part, 16)  
        print(f"Parte: {part}, Decimal: {num}, Total parcial: {total}") 
    return total

line1 = "148AFAD1_1A7E4E98D94D48_317F9E76"
line2 = "72A9728_173A818E19F959_2EAD0A5A"
line3 = "F9786C0_10F071C4029F42_D0A8855"


total = decode_line(line1) + decode_line(line2) + decode_line(line3)
print(f"Total final: {total}")

[fair osprey]

Hey @radiant merlin!

Please edit your message to use a code block

Add a py after the three backticks.

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[radiant merlin]

thats my code

[cold trail]

yeah, that function will only ever return 0 as total is set to 0 and then never updated within the function

[urban prism]

"this code gives the sum of every line, but i want the result" yeah you told the code to do that. what did you expect it did?

do you even know what the "encryption" is? did you just ask an ai "hey can you generate code that decrypts this pls?"

[radiant merlin]

nope

im just askin what can i do to have the result

any idea

[sweet crest]

chill out

[sweet crest]

let me walk you step by step through this:
your decode_line function has the total variable with an integer
your code decodes the lines and adds them to total. and crucially, total is returned while still an integer

on the last 2 lines, when you add the results of those functions, what you're basically doing is adding 3 numbers together. if you want to build a string, convert the results of those functions to strings:

total = str(decode_line(line1)) + str(decode_line(line2)) + str(decode_line(line3))

or use the fstring syntax you used in the last line:

print(f"Total final: {decode_line(line1)}{decode_line(line2)}{decode_line(line3)}")

[radiant merlin]

i made a mistake while copying my code

[sweet crest]

actually i just read what you asked, I was wrong
you want each result to be printed separately, right?

[radiant merlin]

kinda

[sweet crest]

then print statements for each decode_line result should be sufficient, no need to convert to str

[radiant merlin]

every line has to be decrypted and the result should be 217540394

[radiant merlin]

yep but

[sweet crest]

the result of all 3 lines individually should be that?

[radiant merlin]

yep

[sweet crest]

or they all have to somehow be combined to that number?

oh

[radiant merlin]

217540394
217540394
217540394

like that

[sweet crest]

yeah then 3 print statments for the 3 results

[radiant merlin]

yep

[sweet crest]

then what's wrong?

[radiant merlin]

def decode_line(line):
    parts = line.split('_') 
    total = 0
    for part in parts:
        num = int(part, 16)
        total += num 
        print(f"Parte: {part}, Decimal: {num}, Total parcial: {total}") 
    return total

line1 = "148AFAD1_1A7E4E98D94D48_317F9E76"
line2 = "72A9728_173A818E19F959_2EAD0A5A"
line3 = "F9786C0_10F071C4029F42_D0A8855"


total = decode_line(line1) + decode_line(line2) + decode_line(line3)
print(f"Total final: {total}")

[fair osprey]

Hey @radiant merlin!

Please edit your message to use a code block

Add a py after the three backticks.

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[radiant merlin]

this was the code

the other code was wrong

but yeah, the same issue

i need an idea

to get 217540394 on each line

[sweet crest]

don't sum the decode_line results

print them separately

# total = decode_line(line1) + decode_line(line2) + decode_line(line3)
# print(f"Total final: {total}")
print(decode_line(line1))
print(decode_line(line2))
print(decode_line(line3))

assuming they really are the same when decoded

if you don't mind me asking, where did you get those lines? is this a puzzle/challenge or assignment? or something else

[radiant merlin]

challenge

[sweet crest]

ah

[radiant merlin]

not even ai can help

[sweet crest]

let me test the code locally

[radiant merlin]

i was thinking like sum the first part and the second part and divide for the third part

like (a+b)/c

im testing

[sweet crest]

yeah thatll depend on the challenge question itself and what exactly it's asking then, I'm not sure what to do here

[radiant merlin]

CRYPTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE

148AFAD1_1A7E4E98D94D48_317F9E76

72A9728_173A818E19F959_2EAD0A5A

F9786C0_10F071C4029F42_D0A8855

The objective of the challenge is to create the program that can decode the previous lines, the same program must take each line individually and generate the same output

Each of the 3 lines must be decoded into the value 217540394 to know that the process was correct

[sweet crest]

ah thats all

[radiant merlin]

yep

[sweet crest]

i have a hunch, gimme a sec

yeah no clue

[radiant merlin]

yeah

its hard

all i know is that

these "_" are separators

i was using basic math like (a+b)/c

[fair osprey]

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