Well, as far as I am concerned, this is nice and crypted.
There is something like 12^94 possibilities for the state of the seed, though I would love if somebody with a better handle on crypto had done the deed. The answer is in there somewhere!

Hello,
@Rocky, yeah, if competition is meaned by this way, you are right, there should be no hints. Sorry for my previous message, I understood It as a security test like in AES competition, where source code of algorithms was needed, because tested was also strenght of cypher and Its wulnerabilities.
But this is also option, so now I am thief, and go to crack unknown cyphring machine, great, I have already some ideas how to do It.
Have a nice day.

Rastislav

Ctoth, well done on the source code.  I had been working on this myself yesterday but I didn't have any tools to extract the source.  I'm surprised it came out so clean!

I have been working at this in a more traditional (low tech) way.  I made dozens of lists where I encrypted messages, looked for patterns, and eventually worked out what I referred to as the value wheel.  In your ripped source I see it was called ListA.

From there I went with a different approach to the wheels.  Not necessarily by choice, but because it would have been a pretty lucky guess to know how he had internally arranged things.  If you were presented with 4 wheels that spun vertically and contained 5 symbols on each, their motions can be expressed as 5 horizontal wheels with 4 symbols, and so on.

Before I went to work for the night, I had made some pretty good progress.  Without using Rocky's original program, I can take any message and encrypt it with any 1 digit long key.  The results will be exactly as if Rocky's program had encrypted it.  I am also able to decrypt any message that was encrypted with a 1 digit long key.  That's a far cry from being solved, but I do think it shows how much of the machine's internal "wiring" someone can deduce just by looking for patterns in messages you encrypt.

I have been working on the second wheel, but now that you've provided the source I may stop going in the direction I have been going in, and use this information to find a faster path.  When I say working on the second wheel, I don't mean the exact second wheel from Rocky's program.  It's confusing and complicated, because my approach was not identical to how Rocky built his program.  If I were to work out my second wheel, I would be able to encode and decode anything for key lengths of 1 or 2.  It would continue to climb, as each new wheel was solved, until I found the key length that Rocky used to encode his message.

much as I agree with you rocky I think zombies with 4 wheels is a bad idea. if I can unscramble a chicken though I will pluck it with abandon. hopefully no feathers will fall on Tuesday.

and still the shadow of the walrus stands tall over the secondary cheese

On a more sober note.  No one has claimed the 100$ reward, but I have received several insights.  Firstly, python being a scripting language is apparently easy to decompyle.There are some methods out there to help hide source code, all rather complicated, and none of them seem to be any guarantee.  Basically, python is not what you would use for this sort of thing.  So, don't use this for military or commercial uses, ok?  Secondly, there's always reverse engineering, which is way more powerful than I had thought.  My current take on this, is that it will eventually come down to the  strength of the password.

when i ran the program for my output guess it came up with JK;yDzBvP*hO>p3QJ:mU0Jn^<,}( +}Ae>F

Guys, the unscrambled sentence is understandable English as I think, not these tons of unknown letters!

I am concluding that this encryption machine is safe to use, but only if you choose a strong password.  I am therefore releasing a version 2, with unlimited length of password, 24 encryption wheels instead of 12 and an optional second password that reorders the wheels.  Personally I am happy to keep all my passwords in one text file, but at some future point I intend to return to encryption and make a password keeper to conveniently store and retrieve passwords.  Thank you for taking part and please share any ideas for improvement, or tales of woe.