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The attached document is a fragment of a letter from Sarah Bernhardt to the Prince of Wales. It seems to have been encrypted using a keyword substitution cipher, but luckily the word shapes have been retained, so we have a lot to work with. If you use the frequency analysis app and everything you have learned about using cribs you should be fine! You have two weeks, but you really won’t need that long!
We found a message from Eliot to Prof Vandiver which we will put in the case files tomorrow. If you prefer not to read it then you can just leave it encrypted – it is not part of the challenge! But if you get stuck then you can try deciphering Eliot’s letter first. It (that is, the case file) is just encrypted using a shift cipher so that will be easy. Remember, these are still practice challenges so the score won’t count in the overall leaderboard and you can afford to take this one slowly if you want the practice! And you do have two weeks until Challenge 4 starts!
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RULE REMINDER: Rapid fire multiple submissions put an unreasonable load on the servers and make it difficult for others to submit. Anyone who makes an unreasonable number of submissions will be open to disqualification. In the first instance this will mean that anyone who submits more than 20 times in 10 minutes will be disqualified.