Koordinaterne i denne serie af cacher er ikke
koordinaterne på selve cacheboksen, men på en bekvem
parkeringsplads i nærheden. For at finde cachen skal man dechifrere
en kodet meddelelse hvor den resulterende tekst er på engelsk. Det
kan blive nødvendigt at søge visse informationer på internettet. Da
disse informationer næsten udelukkende findes på engelsk, så er man
nødt til at kunne læse og forstå engelsk. Resten af
cachebeskrivelsen er derfor på engelsk.
This is a Mystery/Puzzle cache. The coordinates of this cache
are not the coordinates of the cachebox, but they will lead
you to a convenient parking area.
The cachebox is a 2 liter container hidden in “Trørød
Skov”. It contains a logbook, a pencil, a FFC and some
trading items.
The first documented use of a monoalphabetic substitution
cipher for military purposes was a letter from Julius Caesar to
Cicero. This kind of cipher is therefore often called the Caesar
Shift Cipher. The key to the cipher is the number of positions
to shift the letters. The cipher is relatively easy to
“crack”, especially if you know which language the
message is written in.
In history, various attempts have been made to disguise the
letters in the ciphertext as odd-looking glyphs, but nevertheless,
it is still a monoalphabetic substitution cipher and easy to crack.
This mistake cost Mary Queen of Scots her head.
The ciphertext below is enciphered using this method and the
Puzzle is to decipher it with the key in order to get the plaintext
leading to the cache. The Mystery is how to find the key.
The logbook contains keys to other caches in the CCC-series. I
have decided to make it easier for you: If you can decipher this
cache, you can now decipher the text
here to obtain the keys without going to the cachesite
first.
Ciphertext:
Gur pnpur vf uvqqra haqre n
fghzc ng Abegu svsgl svir qrterrf svsgl cbvag fvk uhaqerq naq svsgl
frira Rnfg gjryir qrterrf guvegl gjb cbvag avar uhaqerq naq
svsgl
Thanks to Simon Singh for inspiring this series of caches.