farseer
2007-02-16 09:42:42 |
Caesar Problem - I need some help!
Julius Caesar used cryptography as a means of communicating in a secure fashion with his generals. Unfortunately, on many occasions his messages were intercepted and interpreted by his enemies. The message below is coded using the same algorithm as was used by Caesar.
tiyaesesnaflsnhegtfpisodroratrgsohseratrudyaloteihoarloreyueseegnw
Are you as good as Caesar’s enemies? Can you interpret the above message?
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As far as I can tell you shift every letter three places to the right but that just leaves me with:
wlbdhvhvqdiovqkhjwislvrgurudwujvrkvhudwuxgbdorwhlkrduoruhbxhvhhjqz
No other shift seems to get an english result either.
Help?
I've been on this site for quite a while and I know that there's some kick-ass cryptographers out there! |
farseer
2007-02-16 09:44:32 |
Re: Caesar Problem - I need some help!
Btw, I'm posting this here as it's not a 'proper' fun problem and can be disregarded once it gets done. |
brianjn
2007-02-16 20:17:12 |
Re: Caesar Problem - I need some help!
Your last remark says a lot about why we don't try answering questions in forums, that is not our reason for being here.
However, I assume that you've looked at the frequency of letters in the encryption and tried to equate them with a shift that matches ETSRA, ie high frequency letters. |
