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A Simple Substitution Cipher Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

digndirt: Checked on the cache today and could not find it on land or in the water. It had a pretty good run, but I'm not going to replace it. Archiving it will also open up the area for another cache to be placed in the area.

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Hidden : 7/8/2008
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

CONGRATULATIONS TO MARVINJ920 ON HIS FTF!

The cache is NOT at the listed coordinates, but you can park there. The container is a camoed tube with room for small trade items and is about 4 feet off the ground. BYOP. Please don't search for the cache after dark. The locals may call the police if they see the glow of flashlights along the trails at night. The trail to the cache location is not wheelchair friendly, but you could ride a bike to within 20 feet of the cache.


Substitution Cipher
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In cryptography, a substitution cipher is a method of encryption by which units of plaintext are substituted with ciphertext according to a regular system; the "units" may be single letters (the most common), pairs of letters, triplets of letters, mixtures of the above, and so forth. The receiver deciphers the text by performing an inverse substitution.


Substitution ciphers can be compared with transposition ciphers. In a transposition cipher, the units of the plaintext are rearranged in a different and usually quite complex order, but the units themselves are left unchanged. By contrast, in a substitution cipher, the units of the plaintext are retained in the same sequence in the ciphertext, but the units themselves are altered.

THE CIPHER

N33 39.A
W78 56.B

A: + , 2 6 + _ 3 2 - / : (
B: 2 - / : ( : _ , 5 3 2 5 ( 1 2 , ( )


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

C-N-S

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)