The Great ASCIIWeb Test

As you may know, ASCIIWeb is Theta Pi Software's online encryption algorithm. As noted on the pages, it's fairly strong, probably - that caveat being because this algorithm has never been put up to any rigorous testing. Hence, this page.

This page is meant to be a challenge. A number of different passages will be placed here - encrypted in various ways with ASCIIWeb. You goal, should you choose to accept it, is to break these codes and return their full and accurate plaintext - without access to any passwords or encryption keys. You already have the publicly available source of the algorithm to work with. If you really need a hint, you can take a look at the cheat sheet, although you wouldn't have something like this in real life.

It is true that ASCIIWeb may be a fairly good algorithm - in which case, some of the later encryption problems on this page may not be solvable in a humanly feasible amount of time. If that's the case, I will be happy :) If not, please write in and send me the plaintext that you retrieved, as well as how you went about cracking the encryption (and whether you used the cheat sheet!). Some of the problems ("This one should be fairly simple." & "Now we're shifting to a new paradigm...") should be fairly easy to crack through standard methods - the rest should be significantly harder, and I would be interested to know if they are broken.

Unfortunately, this is a nonprofit site funded out of my own pocket, so there is no reward for cracking these other than bragging rights (and your name listed on this page) at this time. BTW, noone is not someone's handle - it indicates that this ciphertext has not yet been cracked.

Here's one for warm-up, if you like (this isn't actually ASCIIWeb):

If you know anything about encryption, this one should be a piece of cake - if not, you might want to try something else.

Now, let's get to the real challenges. (descriptions are below text blocks)

This one should be fairly simple.
First cracked by: noone

A bit harder on this one.
First cracked by: noone

This one might be a bit stickier, as some more variables come into play.
First cracked by: noone

Theoretically, this should be one tough code to crack.
First cracked by: noone

Now we're shifting to a new paradigm...
First cracked by: noone

A bit tougher, again.
First cracked by: noone

Once again, this should be a tough nut to crack.
First cracked by: noone

If you solve this one, ASCIIWeb probably isn't that secure.
First cracked by: noone

If you can crack this block, ASCIIWeb should not be used for secure communications.
First cracked by: noone

And now, even though it's not optimized for it, here are some longer passages encrypted by ASCIIWeb:

The old.
First cracked by: noone

The new.
First cracked by: noone

If you want to make sure this is the original page, save the page as a file and use this PGP signiature. And, as an added bonus, an earlier version of this page encrypted via ASCIIWeb!