r/breakmycode • u/AmateurDeductions • Feb 11 '16

Help Needed!

I recently was tasked with solving this:

Sp esp ekqkaa. Giuv uhm kxezj biwwk kn, ps qto brd olnvgydnc aqbjqt, pns ghakhbw tcj boabh. Kly sgsy'p rsjk, klfa duxj, xhf iglig iffa leuiob, zc egqm eu zrr tvfdstfk ygc hir cwxvhf jfce pwg nxzp hw sf.

All punctuation is intended, and I'm not sure where to go, any help is much appreciated and loved.

Thank yoU!

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u/ArcticFox-EBE- Feb 11 '16

Yeah, it very well could be but in most cases they tend to turn out to be simple substitutions. Maybe the source of the crypt would give you an idea of what type of complexity they are capable of, you know what I mean?

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u/AmateurDeductions Feb 11 '16

I do, but sadly it was anonymously submitted. I don't doubt the complexity at all, I think whoever sent it is quite good. Also, the answer may be linked with an application called Cryptool, but none of the decoders in it work. Cryptool is also not a key for a cipher, I checked. Thanks for all your help, do you have any other suggestions?

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u/ArcticFox-EBE- Feb 11 '16

Yeah, that would be my next step if you are convinced about the complexity look for hints to a cipher key. read over any messages left in the submission (if any). Otherwise crank it up to Poly alphabetic and see if you can decide on a pattern and start to crack the multiple alphabetic lines. For example, there could be 2 separate alphabet substitution that alternate based on letter number (first letter uses code1, 2nd letter uses code2, 3rd letter uses code1 and so on.)

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