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When you have a cipher text that is made up of special characters and spaces, how do you decrypt that it back to its original state?

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A typical ciphertext consists of bytes and not characters. If you transformed it to characters you need to specify how you did that (with some kind of encoding). This is also a programming problem and not a cryptography problem, and thus off-topic here. Improve your question and ask on stackoverflow. – CodesInChaos Oct 18 '12 at 14:36
Welcome to Cryptography Stack Exchange. Your question is missing important details (nobody can do something with your description). If this is actually an encryption, please specify how it is done, and we might be able to help you. (Edit your question and add an comment, and we can reopen it.) If it is only some encoding, you will be better off on our sister site Stack Overflow, as @CodesInChaos said. – Paŭlo Ebermann♦ Oct 18 '12 at 20:12

closed as not a real question by CodesInChaos, Paŭlo Ebermann♦ Oct 18 '12 at 20:08

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