PKM Decryption Algorithm Woes; I just can't seem to figure the damned thing out.

[Neurophage]

I wanted to describe my problem as clearly as possible, and figured what better way than with a picture of a thousand words (and some hexadecimal numbers).

[Kaphotics]

http://pastebin.com/s7ffhpRq

[codemonkey85]

Gee, that code looks familiar somehow.

Hmm.

Any luck yet, Neurophage?

[Codr]

http://pastebin.com/s7ffhpRq

I hope it's done that badly because of limitations of the language. I doubt that's the case though.

[codemonkey85]

And now I'm slightly offended.

>_>

Which part looks like it needs improvement?

[Codr]

I just saw the equivalent of:

if (a) {

}

else if (b) {

}

else if © {

}

else if (d) {

}

else if (e) {

}

else if (f) {

}

else if (g) {

}

else if (h) {

}

else if (i) {

}

else if (j) {

}

...and it reminded me of when I had just started programming.

[whatever]

wow, this vb code is damn hard to read... over 300 lines for this, seriously?!

[codemonkey85]

Unless Codr is willing to donate his code, then I guess this is what you guys have to work with!

It's really not that bad. It's just the shuffling and unshuffling that takes up most of the space.

[Codr]

Unless Codr is willing to donate his code

People are spoon-fed enough as it is.

[DannyB01]

That code looks good to me, not too much longer than it needs to be.

Good luck with this Neurophage.

[codemonkey85]

People are spoon-fed enough as it is.

Perhaps! Although I personally have more of a technical curiosity about how other people do things and less of a desire to steal someone else's work outright.

At any rate, if Neurophage understands how my code is operating, maybe he can figure out what he did wrong and do it a better way than I did. That would be good enough for me.