The Enigma Machine Mystery Cache
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{a cache by nikonboy Adopted by Nika05 08/01/2011} Adopted by Keepcalm & Rescueon (Oct.18, 2017)
I recently had the opportunity to complete a cache similar to this a little bit South of where I live. I thought it was really fun and wanted some of the Red Deer Area Cachers to have a chance to enjoy it as well.
The cache is NOT at the posted co-ordinates. You will have to decipher the code to reveal its actual location.
First, a little history lesson: (courtesy of Wikipedia)
An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages.
The first Enigma was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. This model and its variants were used commercially from the early 1920s, and adopted by military and government services of several countries — most notably by Nazi Germany before and during World War II. A range of Enigma models was produced, but the German military model, the Wehrmacht Enigma, is the version most commonly known.
The machine has become notorious because Polish mathematicians-cryptographers and then Allied cryptographers were able to cryptanalyze, and thus decrypt, a vast number of messages which had been enciphered using the Enigma. The intelligence collected from this source, codenamed ULTRA by the British, was a substantial aid to the Allied war effort.
Though the Enigma cipher had cryptographic weaknesses, in practice it was only in combination with other factors (procedural flaws, operator mistakes, occasional captured hardware and key tables) that those weaknesses allowed Allied cryptographers to cryptanalyze so many messages.
And now, onto the cache...
Everything that you need to know is on this page. For those of us who like to cache with our iPhones and BlackBerrys, I suggest that you try to solve this one while at an actual computer.
The cache is a well hidden Ammo can with the usual trading items. And a prize for FTF.
The Codeword: A type of cache container we all like to find.
The Code:
FWWL LXWO ZQEV ULTK VAZS CEGO YXXT YCPC YOIR PSQS ZAAQ DMGV BRMS ZRYZ PWMG KCRY YWOI SBZO EJIF MHER ZQGK TLTY BVZU DLEY RIAY XWSK VLSV LVWU NCZ
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Pbqrobbx Ragel: Gel gur qngr "Uvqqra".
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