This cache is not on the posted coordinates. In this series of
caches placed in the summer of 2009, you will encounter a variety
of cryptographic methods, which have been in extended use
throughout history. You have to solve (but not necessary find) the
five caches Krypto Fioniae 1-5, in order to find the cache
Krypto Fionae FINAL, and apart from this there is an extra
cache for those, who wants an extra challenge.
Image: CC-by-sa 3.0 by Luringen from Wikimedia Commons
For this cache we return to ancient ciphres, namely the scytale,
maybe the oldest crypto device in history, known from ancient
Greece. The scytale contains of cylinders (historically of wood) of
a certain diameter (which, in fact is the key of the decryption).
For decryption a strip of paper, the height of one letter is rolled
around the cylinder, and the letters are written parallel to the
cylinder, in a fitting number of rows. After unrolling the strip,
it just contains a scrambled sequence of letters. When the strip
arrives at its destination, it is just rolled around a cylinder of
the same diameter, and the message can easily be read.
SHPWG CIAEH YSPNT TTETA
AORYN
LRTSC EYHEI IAEVE SNCEN ODONT
NCNTT EOTEH ONANE FSITS TINWC
HSEEY ETRNT FSITA IOSYL RNATE
SLTHI TYFRS EOIED NFFEE CATTS
RWYWC YOFOR POIHI TDVUB IEENE
ONTDD NCWRI DYEEN ELNDM VITTA
INYHN CDTIY EEWRC SROTH MAOYI
ENNNL NDEID TAHNR ISUEE OTNAN
NRDLB EIRTO DPEHO IODOK NFTUS
