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Cryptography 101: One-Time Pad Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/19/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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The one-time pad is the only method of cryptography that has been proven to be a mathematically unbreakable encryption. A text is paired with a secret key, or one-time pad, and then encrypted by combining it with a corresponding character from the key using modular addition. If the key is kept secret, is at least as long as the text, is completely random, and is never reused in any form, the cipher will be impossible to break.

tsfvhvovkihyohvyxjwxehvyxjcwrhvyx
asutquiurshowyxcsbkngumticpeblvu

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur xrl vf uvqqra ba guvf cntr

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)