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Encryption puzzle

Shane Burgel
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Joined: Sep 09, 2003
Posts: 46
Can you figure out how to decrypt this?

(I got bored and wrote an encryption program today that uses a standard technique and if you are anything like me you love puzzles so here you go)

xmzzxprpxrwhfgimafbtreazsmef
jvujweeuwlgkmnnwxwieegmilnnv
pvkkmaomqyzcufuqiwbnfvzkvhmr
tboumrnoyaaeigzxxgoiqfnujmhr
dwsehnqfnkfvecswsgmegimmwgee
btcwefnsmgfwsrdcxwmhrctkklia
hauxeiofzzqmobvzywevrtitvhue
qwylxrvugjghrqbqtsgdrtbgteif
ibnalcboazamugjwtxhrgimafbtr
eazsmefpngexrvdi
Vega Zimur
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Joined: Jul 14, 2010
Posts: 9
using this brute-force shift cipher in javascript I can't get a solution ^^

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Shane Burgel
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Joined: Sep 09, 2003
Posts: 46
Yep, it's not a shift. It's polyalphabetic. Keep trying!
fred rosenberger
lowercase baba
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Joined: Oct 02, 2003
Posts: 8104

I got it. It decrypts to "Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!"

Now, you just have to figure out my decryption method that got me that result!!!


Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Shane Burgel
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Joined: Sep 09, 2003
Posts: 46
LOL, here's a hint. It's encoded using a Vigenere Cipher.
 
 
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