2 files changed, 45 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/solvers/Challenge8.scala b/src/solvers/Challenge8.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5247075
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/solvers/Challenge8.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package ixee.cryptopals.solvers
+
+import scala.io.Source
+import ixee.cryptopals.utils.ByteUtils._
+import ixee.cryptopals.utils.StreamUtils._
+import ixee.cryptopals.utils.ConversionUtils._
+import ixee.cryptopals.utils.FunctionUtils._
+import ixee.cryptopals.utils._
+import io.github.marklister.base64.Base64._
+import javax.crypto.Cipher
+import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec
+
+object Challenge8 {
+  val path = "./data/8.txt"
+
+  lazy val ciphertext =
+    Source
+      .fromFile(path)
+      .getLines()
+      .toSeq
+      .map(hexStr2Bytes)
+      //.mkString
+      //.toByteArray
+
+  def run = {
+    ciphertext
+      .zipWithIndex
+      .map(x => (x._1.grouped(16).toStream, x._2 + 1)) // 
+      // this might be decent, line #133 is #2 under this metric
+      // .map(x => (avgHammingDistance(x._1), x._2)).sortBy(_._1)
+      /*
+       * but looking for actual duplicate data is better:
+       * line 133 is #1 with six duplicate blocks,
+       * old #1 of 177 has 0 duplicate blocks.
+       */
+      .map(x => (dupBlocks(x._1), x._2)).sortBy(_._1 * -1)
+      .head
+      ._2
+  }
+
+  def dupBlocks(xs: Seq[Seq[Byte]]) =
+    pairsOf(xs).map(tup(_ == _)).count(_ == true)
+}
diff --git a/src/solvers/XorDecrypt.scala b/src/solvers/XorDecrypt.scala
index 83fa923..1a28637 100644
--- a/src/solvers/XorDecrypt.scala
+++ b/src/solvers/XorDecrypt.scala
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ object XorDecrypt {
   }
 
   def normalizedHammingDistanceForKeySize(xs: Seq[Byte], keySize: Int) = {
-    val grouped = xs.grouped(keySize).toArray.dropRight(1)
+    val grouped = xs.grouped(keySize).toArray.init
       // ez hack to drop non-`keySize` subcomponents of xs
     (grouped.init zip grouped.tail).map(tup(hammingDistance(_, _))).reduce(_ + _) / (grouped.length - 1.0) / keySize
   }
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ object XorDecrypt {
 
   def findBestMultiByteKeyOfSize(keySize: Int)(ciphertext: Seq[Byte], inspectSet: Seq[Int] = Seq()): Seq[Byte] = {
     // inspectSet is the set of key bytes for which we want debugging information
-    ciphertext.grouped(keySize).toSeq.dropRight(1).transpose.zipWithIndex
+    ciphertext.grouped(keySize).toSeq.init.transpose.zipWithIndex
       .map { case (byteCiphertext, idx) => {
         if (inspectSet.contains(idx)) {
           println("For idx = " + idx)