Can you outsmart the rest of Steemit?
Hello, I am digicrypt and thank you for checking out this cryptography challenge. If you haven’t done so already, go to my #introduceyourself post here. The post will give you a bit of my background and help explain what I plan to do with this blog. Also, check out Cryptology Series Part 1: Getting the Basics, this series will help you in this and future challenges.
Thanks now let’s get started!
Cryptography Challenge #1
I will be doing a variety of these cryptogaphy challenges along with my Cryptology Series. Use any resources you need to complete the challenges including the web, image search, past posts,books etc... you will need to think outside of the box and use all of your skills. I have encrypted the message using a specific method, you will need to find the method in order to decrypt it. If any of the terminology below is confusing refer to my Cryptology Series Part 1: Getting the Basics. You will receive 1 hint per challenge and each challenge will increase in complexity! As more people get involved, and author rewards increase I will increase the prizes as well.
Rules
First person to decrypt the cipher text below wins!
You must upvote, provide the decrypted plain text and a brief description of the method used to decrypt in order to receive your prize!
The prize is 5 STEEM
The first 10 people to resteem this post will receive .050 STEEM. Post a comment with “Resteem”
All entries must be in by Monday Feb 27 @5:00PM ET
This is the first Cryptography Challenge and it is meant to be relatively simple.
Hint!
Cipher Text: LW LV EHWWHU WR FUHDWH WKDQ WR OHDUQ
If you believe others may find these topics fascinating and you want to see more of these challenges please up vote, Resteem and follow. Thanks!
Signing Off,
Digicrypt
Goodluck!
it is better to create than to learn
The bust of Caesar was a giveaway that this was the Caesar cypher which is just a simple letter shift. From there it was trivial to guess starting with the two letter words. Guess one letter and shift the others by the same amount and see if it makes sense. Once 'i' is tried for the first letter, shifting all letters by the same amount (back 3) reveals the message.
I don't know when I first hear of the Caesar cypher. Probably in Latin class or reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson...
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Very good! That is correct! The Caesar Cipher is one of the simplest and oldest cryptography methods! The next challenge wont be as easy, I hope you follow and will give future challenges a try! I will transfer your prize of 5 STEEM!
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also gave you a shout out in my newest post https://steemit.com/life/@digicrypt/how-julius-caesar-used-cryptography
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