Congratulations to Cadet Eric Barone who solved the challenge in record time. As he now knows, the passage below is from Dicken's Tale of Two Cities. BZ Eric Barone!
Your challenge--it'll keep you busy for some time, but really isn't that difficult--is to decrypt the passage below. Hints:
- The passsage was taken from English literature published within the last 500 years. It is no longer copyright protected.
- It was encrypted using a simple subtitution cipher.
- The cipher is not case sensitive.
- The terms "encrypted" and "cipher" should point you in the right direction, as should the note above about it being a simple substitution.
Bonne chance!* Here is the text:
Gt xsr teh yhrt va tgihr, gt xsr teh xvort va tgihr,
gt xsr teh skh va xgrfvi, gt xsr teh skh va avvcgreuhrr,
gt xsr teh hqvde va yhcgha, gt xsr teh hqvde va gudohfjcgtm,
gt xsr teh rhsrvu va Cgket, gt xsr teh rhsrvu va Fsoluhrr,
gt xsr teh rqoguk va evqh, gt xsr teh xgutho va fhrqsgo,
xh esf hbhomteguk yhavoh jr, xh esf uvteguk yhavoh jr,
xh xhoh scc kvguk fgohdt tv Ehsbhu, xh xhoh scc kvguk fgohdt
teh vteho xsm--gu revot, teh qhogvf xsr rv aso cglh teh qohrhut
qhogvf, test rvih va gtr uvgrghrt sjtevogtghr gurgrthf vu gtr
yhguk ohdhgbhf, avo kvvf vo avo hbgc, gu teh rjqhocstgbh fhkohh
va dviqsogrvu vucm.
The winner (if any) will recieve a soda. This challenge will expire at 0730, 6 September, 2011.
* Uttered by members of the French navy upon diving from the wrakage of their ships after any number of losing engagements with the Royal Navy.
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