Be Ye Men of Valour

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:17 am

Well done asd_2! I didn't expect someone to solve it this fast! How was it?

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:41 pm

Apologies for the spelling error in your name

, this forum won't let me edit the first post.

asdf_2 · Post by **asdf_2** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:08 pm

Very very nice

and not too hard: after spotting the substitution, i simply rearranged the residual letters
btw: the best fitting transcript of the speech i found give me 'the answer is spitfire p' !?!

Thanks for the challenge

asdf_2 (aka clytorock)

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:22 pm

Hmm, that certainly shouldn't have been the case, but I don't really think it makes too much of a difference providing the transposition still works correctly.

asdf_2 · Post by **asdf_2** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:01 am

really, it is not a problem : probably it's only due to using a wrong version -- and NOT decrypting the text ;-)

swgr · Post by **swgr** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:13 pm

Not a very hard cipher, indeed. Every step is quite obvious. I wonder why so few people solved it.

And also, I suggest to change the answer to a string that is not an English word. Otherwise solvers don't even need to work on the transposition cipher part. They only need to find what is the appended letters, and then delete "the answer is" from them, and find anagram.

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:34 pm

It wasn't intended to be too difficult. As for the anagram problem, that was always a risk and has prevented me from doing another similar challenge for now.