Obufscate Code Contest 6

[Darobat]

Greetings
This contest is a sad contest about a scientist who has a horrible, horrible cripiling disease. This poor scientist can not type/write/talk correctly. If he tried to say
"Hello Cpp-home!"
For some unknown reason it always looks/sounds like
"Kt''[ B]]-k[.t!"

A group of med students have found the cause though. It turns out that when he types/talks, everything comes out as if they keys were shifted over 2 to the right. that gives us this:
a = d
b = m
c = b
d = g
...
p = ]
P = }

Remeber that if it is capitalized, it still is capitalized. So a lowercase 'k' for this scientist looks like ';' however an uppercase 'K' is ':'. When translating to the scientist's language, only spaces and letters will appear. No punctuation. Keep in mind when you are decrypting the scientists language, ']' is alpha. its a 'p'. Being american, The docter uses a US English keyboard. http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/refe ... oards.aspx
From the drop down box Select "US English" to see an example.

Your Job - You must create a translator that can go between the two languages with ease. The med students don't want their findings getting out yet so it must be programmed in the most obfuscated way possible.
I got a new compiler for christmas. Now code must be able to compile for Microsft Visual C++ 2003 .NET. I use win2k so as long as its NT system compatible you should be fine.

When you run it should prompt the user for a file. It should then ask them weather they want to encrypt or decrypt that file. It should then prompt them for an output file where it will be routed to. The order these happen does not matter.

You have until January 16th to get your entires pm'd to me. Good luck!

[Corsix]

So,
Normal "moo." = Mad ".[[."
Mad ".[[." = Normal "moom"

[t i l e x]

a = d
b = m
c = b
d = g
...
p = ]
P = }

Can you explain that a bit ?

[Togra]

a = d
b = m
c = b
d = g
...
p = ]
P = }

Can you explain that a bit ?

Take a look at your keyboard. If it is standard western QWERTY, than you should understand it. If it's one of those funky DVORAK, well... bonuspoints I guess .

[t i l e x]

Oh shift 2 keys on the keyboard. Thank you I understand now.

[Corsix]

I think it should wrap around
eg. q->e, w->r, p->], [->q, ]->w
otherwise the example when decoded becomes "Hello Cpp9home!" (two shifts left of "-" is "9")

[Darobat]

Actually I'll make it easier. Only letters and spaces will appear in the original. So a . is translated to an m. You will never have a . in the original.

[Togra]

I think it should wrap around
eg. q->e, w->r, p->], [->q, ]->w
otherwise the example when decoded becomes "Hello Cpp9home!" (two shifts left of "-" is "9")

Actually I'll make it easier. Only letters and spaces will appear in the original. So a . is translated to an m. You will never have a . in the original.

I must agree with Corsix, wrapping is the best and easiest thing to do here... But you're the boss! More bonuspoints.

[Corsix]

And when we 'decode' will the result only be letters and spaces? (As you can't 'encode' ".>/?'@#~[{]}")

[Togra]

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shifted, first row:   ~!@#$%^&*()_+
regular, first row:   `1234567890-=
shifted, second row:  QWERTYUIOP{}
regular, second row:  qwertyuiop[]
shifted, third row:   ASDFGHJKL:"
regular, third row:   asdfghjkl;'
shifted, fourth row:  ZXCVBNM<>?
regular, fourth row:  zxcvbnm,./


Just to make sure we all use the same keyboard-layout. There might be tiny differences, for instance my backslash (shifted: '|') is separated from the slash (shifted: '?') by a shift-key. How about you guys?

[t i l e x]

What about space ? Shifting twice right gives me windows key...

[Corsix]

And can you put the windows key in your messenger chat box?

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Before: Hello world from Corsix
After:  Kt''[ r[y'g hy[. B[yfpv

Edit: the following lines differ on my keyboard

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shifted, first row:   ¬!"£$%^&*()_+
shifted, third row:   ASDFGHJKL:@~
regular, third row:   asdfghjkl;'#
shifted, fourth row:  |ZXCVBNM<>?
regular, fourth row:  \zxcvbnm,./

[Togra]

the following lines differ on my keyboard

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shifted, first row:   ¬!"£$%^&*()_+
shifted, third row:   ASDFGHJKL:@~
regular, third row:   asdfghjkl;'#
shifted, fourth row:  |ZXCVBNM<>?
regular, fourth row:  \zxcvbnm,./

Aha... I was afraid this would happen. Different countries, different keyboard layouts. You Englishmen with your pounds! Newest Dutch keyboards should have a Euro-key by now.

Darobat should choose a layout (perhaps his own) and publish it in the original post.

[Darobat]

Arg. I never thought of that. And you dont need to deal with the number row. only the qwer, asdf, zxcv rows. Heres the keyboard layout I want:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/refe ... oards.aspx
From the drop down box Select "US English"

[Pests]

Hi, kinda been lurking the contests for awhile and thinking im going to enter this one. Any specific compiler or OS this have to work on? How do you want us to recive the data?

Thanks, sorry if these questions are obvious.