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Kerckhoffs (part 2) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/5/2022
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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This is a puzzle cache. Please do not go to the posted coordinates, nothing is hidden there. For necessary background information please see part one (GC9NT53).

Kerckhoffs's principle states that a properly designed cryptosystem should be secure even if an adversary knows everything about its workings except for the particular key used.

So much of the complexity of Cacher Craig's cryptosystem lies in details that are not part of the key. The differing lengths of the codewords and the shifting of the mapping are part of the algorthm and the exact details of both can be easily extracted from the ciphertext when the full algorithm is known.

Prove Kerckhoffs right by breaking the following message without the key, thereby showing that Cacher Craig's cryptosystem is indeed insecure. 

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