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Lazy Sam the Journalist Part 9
Cryptography
In Cryptography teasers, a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way (frequently by replacing letters with other letters). You need to figure out the encoding method and then decode the message to find the answer.Cryptography
Sam, a journalist, is now working in Canada for a newspaper. He was going to write a new segment of quotes by the Monty Python group but there was one problem. The Canadians considered this top secret information (something interesting in Canada? This was big!), so it was sent in code. The problem is, Sam never got the code. Now he has to decode it himself. Can you help him? The message is as follows:
AP, L'E F ZWEIXDQFKS FVG L'E AS; L TZXXR FZZ VLMPU FVG L BADS FZZ GFN.
-ELKPFXZ RFZLV
NAW QWTU PFJX UA SVAB UPXTX UPLVMT BPXV NAW'DX SLVM.
-MDFPFE KPFREFV
AP, L'E F ZWEIXDQFKS FVG L'E AS; L TZXXR FZZ VLMPU FVG L BADS FZZ GFN.
-ELKPFXZ RFZLV
NAW QWTU PFJX UA SVAB UPXTX UPLVMT BPXV NAW'DX SLVM.
-MDFPFE KPFREFV
Hint
(plain text)=(code)A=F
B=I
C=K
D=G
Answer
Oh, I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK; I sleep all night and I work all day.-Michael Palin (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
You just have to know these things when you're king.
-Graham Chapman (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
A=F
B=I
C=K
D=G
E=X
F=C
G=M
H=P
I=L
J=Q
K=S
L=Z
M=E
N=V
O=A
P=R
Q=H
R=D
S=T
T=U
U=W
V=J
W=B
X=Y
Y=N
Z=O
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