Reply To: The official Challenge 10 tips and hints thread

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@Harry

Couldn’t think of versions of transposition cipher until doing some reading from Gaines’ Cryptanylsis book. Link below for anyone who fancies some reading.

https://ia600205.us.archive.org/16/items/1956Cryptanalysis-AStudyOfCiphersAndTheirSolution/1956%20-%20Cryptanalysis%20–%20a%20study%20of%20ciphers%20and%20their%20solution_text.pdf

Don’t know if you’re allowed to answer this yet, but could the 10B cipher be one of Myszkowski Transposition or the AMSCO? It would save us a lot of time if we could narrow it down to exactly what type of cipher we’re trying to decode…

[It is a great book, and there is a copy in the official BOSS library. You will find (roughly) the type of cipher published in the official hints now. That should get you started! Harry]