Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Treasure Hunt


So I mentioned to a few people last night about a hidden treasure.  This treasures whereabouts is hidden in a series of encrypted documents. 
 
I've encoded a message below that describes what this treasure is and how to find out more about it.  As I discussed last night in my talk, Frequency Analysis is an aid used in cracking classic ciphers.  Below is a message created using a classic cipher.  See if you can crack it.
 
FTQ NQMXQ OUBTQDE OAZEUEFE AR FTDQQ QZOAPQP YQEEMSQE. AZQ AR FTQ OUBTQDE EBQOURUQE FTQ XAOMFUAZ AR M NGDUQP FDQMEGDQ AR SAXP MZP EUXHQD QEFUYMFQP FA NQ IADFT YADQ FTMZ FTUDFK YUXXUAZ PAXXMDE. FTQ AFTQD FIA OAPQE MXXQSQPXK PQEODUNQ FTQ OAZFQZFE AR FTQ FDQMEGDQ, MZP M XUEF AR ZMYQE AR FTQ FDQMEGDQE' AIZQDE MZP FTQUD ZQJF AR WUZ ITA IQDQ FA DQOQUHQ FTQ FDQMEGDQ UZ OMEQ AR MOOUPQZF. FTQ OAPQ PQEODUNUZS FTQ OAZFQZFE AR FTQ FDQMEGDQ IME PQOAPQP GEUZS FTQ PQOXMDMFUAZ AR UZPQBQZPQZOQ. FTUE IME MOOAYBXUETQP NK OAZEQOGFUHQXK ZGYNQDUZS FTQ IADPE UZ FTQ PQOXMDMFUAZ AR UZPQBQZPQZOQ. QMOT ZGYNQD UZ FTQ OAPQ IME FTQZ DQBXMOQP NK FTQ RUDEF XQFFQD AR FTQ OADDQEBAZPUZS ZGYNQDQP IADP UZ FTQ PQOXMDMFUAZ AR UZPQBQZPQZOQ.  FTQ NQMXQ OUBTQD OMZ NQ RAGZP AZ FTQ IQN.  FTQ ZMYQ AR FTQ YMZ ITA TUP FTQ FDQMEGDQ UE FTAYME VQRRQDEAZ NQMXQ.  FTQDQ UE OGDDQZFXK ZA WZAIZ EAXGFUAZ FA FTQ AFTQD FIA OUBTQDE. 

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