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Encryptor Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/26/2011
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This Cache has items for trade. The FTF will find a $25 gift card to Starbucks. No spoiler information in the logs please. Feel free to email me if you want your coords. checked before you go looking in the wrong place.

This Cache IS NOT at the above coordinates. To find it’s real location you will have to break an encrypted code using the Geocaching Mystery Wheel (visit link) To solve this puzzle you will have to figure out the encryption key that we used. With only this clue. Spell Check

Thomas Jefferson is often credited for the invention of the wheel cipher. During his tenure as George Washington's Secretary of State (1790-1793), it is believed that he invented the wheel cipher as a result of the need for protected communications between the United States and its allies.

This example has an encryption key 2,4. Using this key the word "GEOCACHE" is encrypted to "ECMAYAFC". To encrypt the first letter of the word you locate it on the first wheel and encrypt it to the corresponding letter on the second wheel.

The following message was encoded with a wheel cipher. It contains vital information needed to locate the geocache.

K90IKPE0E6KN6EKPE0E6GF0EKQ6IFFE6J6M6EEFIK9FE6Q6IFJ6M6E7FIKP7FLIGF0EKFE6KNF70M6N6JK

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fcryy Purpx

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)