WAGB Arrow 13 Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

Balayang: I am regretfully archiving this cache since unfortunately there has been no action to restore it, or any communication from the cache owner, WA_Puzzler, requesting additional time.

An ample opportunity has been provided for the Cache Owner to respond, but since this opportunity has been ignored, I can only conclude that the cache has been abandoned.

Caches archived under these circumstances are unable to be Unarchived, and this location is now available for the placement of a new cache, by somebody else.

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Hidden : 4/27/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:



The cache is NOT at the listed coordinates!!





BASIC CRYPTOGRAPHY


The need to conceal the meaning of important messages has existed for thousands of years. Over time, people have found increasingly complex ways of encoding their messages as the simpler ways are decoded with greater ease.

Contrary to layman-speak, codes and ciphers are not synonymous. A code is where each word in a message is replaced with a code word or symbol, whereas a cipher is where each letter in a message is replaced with a cipher letter or symbol. In fact, when most people say “code,” they are actually referring to ciphers.

Ancient scripts and languages have been understood using decoding and deciphering techniques, most famously the Rosetta Stone of Ancient Egypt. Evidence of some use of cryptography has been seen in most major early civilizations. In fact, codes and ciphers have determined the outcome of politics and wars throughout history.



At around 100 BC, Julius Caesar was known to use a form of encryption to convey secret messages to his army generals posted in the war front. This substitution cipher, known as Caesar cipher, is perhaps the most mentioned historic cipher in academic literature. (A cipher is an algorithm used for encryption or decryption.) In a substitution cipher, each character of the plain text (plain text is the message which has to be encrypted) is substituted by another character to form the cipher text (cipher text is the encrypted message). The variant used by Caesar was a shift by 3 cipher. Each character was shifted by 3 places, so the character ‘A’ was replaced by ‘D’, ‘B’ was replaced by ‘E’, and so on. The characters would wrap around at the end, so ‘X’ would be replaced by ‘A’.

There are thousands of types of hidden messages, but the one that geocachers should come across most often is a simple substitution cipher, similar to the one used by Julius Caesar. Geocaching.com use ROT13 to encode information in the Additional Hints on geocache listings. What this means is that instead shifting (rotating) the letters across by 3, the letters are shifted (rotated) across by 13 letters, which just happens to be half of the alphabet.





The coordinates you need to find the cache are:

S 33° ??.??? & E 115° ??.???

The missing minutes are:





Good Luck!
FTF Congratulations pood




PS You may find it useful to print out and use a Caesar cipher wheel to help decode messages which have been written (encoded) using ROT13 or any other ROT cipher you may come across.

You can find the simple inner and outer wheels to print out here:
https://inventwithpython.com/hacking/chapter1_files/image004.jpg
and https://inventwithpython.com/hacking/chapter1_files/image005.jpg

Have fun!
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