059 XOR decryption.sf

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Author: Daniel "Trizen" Șuteu
# License: GPLv3
# Website: https://github.com/trizen

# Your task has been made easy, as the encryption key consists of three lower case characters.
# Using cipher.txt (right click and 'Save Link/Target As...'), a file containing the encrypted
# ASCII codes, and the knowledge that the plain text must contain common English words, decrypt
# the message and find the sum of the ASCII values in the original text.

# https://projecteuler.net/problem=59

# Runtime: 0.369s

var enc = eval('[' + %f'p059_cipher.txt'.read + ']')

var p_len = 3       # password length
var pass = []       # decoded password

for p in (^p_len) {
    for c in ('a'.ord .. 'z'.ord) {

        var dec = []
        for i in (p..enc.end `by` p_len) {
            dec << chr(enc[i] ^ c)
        }

        # The number of non-alpha and non-space chars
        var count = dec.join.count(/[^a-z ]/i)

        # The ratio must be less than 10%
        if (count/dec.len < 0.1) {
            pass << c
            break
        }
    }
}

var dec = []

for i in (^enc) {
    dec << enc[i]^pass[i % p_len]
}

say dec.sum