Permutation Code
Time Limit: 1 Second Memory Limit: 32768 KB
As the owner of a computer forensics company, you have just been given
the following note by a new client:
I, Albert Charles Montgomery, have just discovered the most amazing
cypher for encrypting messages. Let me tell you about it.
To begin, you will need to decide on a set of symbols, call it S, perhaps with the letters RATE. The size of this set must be
a power of 2 and the order of the symbols in S is important. You must note that
R is at position 0, A at 1, T at 2, and E at 3. You will also need one permutation
P of all those symbols, say
TEAR. Finally you will
need an integer, call it x. Together,
these make up the key. Given a key, you are now ready to convert a plaintext
message M of length n (M[0],
M[1]... M[n-1]),
that has some but not necessarily all of the symbols in S, into a cyphertext string C, also of length n (C[0],
C[1],...C[n-1]),
that has some but not necessarily all of the symbols in S. The encrypting algorithm computes C as follows:
For example, consider this scenario where S=RATE, P=TEAR, x=102, M=TEETER, and n=6. To compute d, first calculate 61.5 + 102 = 116.696938, then take the remainder after dividing by 6. So d = 116 % 6 = 2. The following table shows the steps in filling in the cyphertext C. Note that the order of the steps is not important.
I have included additional examples of encrypted messages at the end of this note for you to experiment with. However, first, I need to tell you about the decryption algorithm. |
Unfortunately, the next page of the note, with the decrypting algorithm, is completely unreadable because it is covered with huge, overlapping, messy ink blots. Given your considerable skill in unravelling puzzles, your task is to write the decoder based on your knowledge of the encoding algorithm.
Input
The input for the decoder consists of one or more sets of {key, encrypted message} pairs. The key is on 3 separate lines. The first line contains the single integer x, 0 < x < 10,000; the second line contains the string S; and the third line contains the string P, which will be a permutation of S. The length of S (and therefore P) will always be one of the following powers of two: 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32. Following the key is a line containing the encrypted message string C, which will contain at least one and at most sixty characters. The strings S, P, and C will not contain whitespace, but may contain printable characters other than letters and digits. The end of the input is a line which contains the single integer 0.
Output
For each input set print the decrypted string on a single line, as shown in the sample output.
Sample Input
102 RATE TEAR ETAEAA 32 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ._!?,; ;ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ._!?, MOMCUKZ,ZPD 1956 ACEHINT_ ACTN_IHE CIANCTNAAIECIA_TAI 0
Sample Output
TEETER HELLO_WORLD THE_CAT_IN_THE_HATSubmit
Source: Mid-Central USA 2004