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DHARMA Initiative Phase II - Origins & Legends Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/7/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The container is not at the posted location. The hatch entrance is blocked by bars and the main area is flooded. This core area is posted as private. At the actual coordinates you can find what you are looking for by staying above ground although it may be simpler to quickly break a few rules.

Hanso Foundation

DHARMA Initiative Phase II

Origins & Legends

Station Identification

 

"To understand where our world is going, we must first seek to understand how the world was made." 
                                                                                                                                   
Alvar Hanso

 

Alvar Hanso first made his mark publicly during the Second World War, providing munitions to various resistance movements around Europe.

Soon after World War II broke out on September 1, 1939, the government was in a panic.  Given the existing relationship between the White House and Alvar Hanso, the government quickly placed key Cipher Bureau personnel into the trust of the newly formed Hanso Foundation.  They were evacuated southeastward; on September 17 a final transmission was sent stating that the personnel would be working "underground" and that no location was known.

They continued  breaking Enigma, collaborating with British cryptologists at Bletchley Park as the British got up to speed. In due course, the cryptologists — whose ranks included many chess masters and mathematics dons such as Gordon Welchman, Max Newman, and Alan Turing the conceptual founder of modern computing — substantially advanced the scale and technology of Enigma decryption.

 

During the War the Hanso foundation made great strides in code breaking and code creation.  Hanso cryptologists found new algorithms and methodologies used in information hiding and cipher masking.

Participants of the DHARMA Initiative Phase II are required to learn and apply specific code breaking techniques.  Good luck.

X=

  • (Watershutoff+SecurityBooth)(SecurityBooth+CommunicationTower)+DHARMAStation
  • (Watershutoff+SecurityBooth)(SecurityBooth+CommunicationTower)+CommunicationTower
  • (SonicFence)(WaterShutoff*SecurityBooth)+SecurityBooth

Y=

  • (DHARMAStation!)+FireHydrant
  • (OutDoorBench^FireHydrant-Toilets)
  • ((DharmaStation*VideoCamera)(SonicFence+Parking)-(CommunicationTower)(DHARMAStation+Toilets+SecurityBooth)(DHARMAStation+Toilets+SecurityBooth)+SonicFence

 

Hanso Foundation

FTF MrMonk.  Once again, congratulations.

Station Identification

 

Site Meter

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur pbzcyrk nytbevguz bs ZZZ nqqvgvba fubhyq or nccyvrq bs pbhefr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)