A little intelligence test

[Saulkar]

Oh GAWD! I could never do even the simplest of these Goddamn things.

 

[Tautology]

We have had a winner! Kathinka is the winner!

Damn, too slow for me. think I had it too. Transposition cipher?

Edit:

i got it^^ well actually my friend did. she worked cryptography for the german army for a while some years back, so it was an unfair advantage really. she took one look and started reading like it was the god damn brothers grimm.

and no, it was no bifid, it's what i first thought too.

Alright folks the phrase is the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

For the sake of it, i removed punctuation and spaces.

Alright this seems to have gotten a good bit of reception so im going to be placing another one up in a few days. This next one will be considerably more difficult and it will take a good bit of knowledge base to really get the answer. HOWEVER, i will be awarding an actual prize so it should be good!

That was what I had.

 

[Agayek]

I think simple is an incredibly relative term here. There seem to be a couple of hundred different variations of Bifid cyphers (if this is indeed one of those) And we have no idea which. There are no keywords or hints, the message is quite short and it's been posted in a forum of people that are internet famous for being unable to work out whether 0.9 = 1.
We don't stand a chance.

EDIT: Damn. I may have to eat my words now. Bloody Germans. So, what was the code, how was it solved, and what did it say?

Simple is a very relative term. In the world of cryptography, this cipher is very simple. I still can't be fucked with working out the precise mechanics behind it, but it looks like a transpositional cipher. It'd take some time to figure out what the rearrangement rules are as I haven't made a serious study of codebreaking (I'm far more interested in the encrypting part), but it's not terribly complex.

 

[Viral_Lola]

*sobs uncontrollable

I can?t do it. The answer is 42, the answer is always 42.

*rocks self in corner

I?m bad at deciphering things.

 

[Shadowfacet]

Sorry coming to this a bit late, but I'm really intrigued as to which cipher was used, from looking at it it seemed like some kind of transposition cipher.
But now that someone's solved it I really feel no motivation to try and work it out, even given the text and the cipher text I have a lot of study to be doing.
So are you willing to give away the cipher or is that all hush hush still.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I aint got time to get too deeply into it, but I do remember a simple cypher that made the alphabet into a 5x5 grid, leaving out x or z, whichever wasn't getting used.

Is that a good place for people to start working from?

Scary thing, is I remember it from a kid's book when I was about 7, all about codes and codebreaking

 

[Drew Richard]

A letter slide?

Edit:
Well, now that I saw the answer, I feel stupid for actually making that guess at the beginning just from the "part of American History" but then decided that that couldn't be it.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I think simple is an incredibly relative term here. There seem to be a couple of hundred different variations of Bifid cyphers (if this is indeed one of those) And we have no idea which. There are no keywords or hints, the message is quite short and it's been posted in a forum of people that are internet famous for being unable to work out whether 0.9 = 1.
We don't stand a chance.

EDIT: Damn. I may have to eat my words now. Bloody Germans. So, what was the code, how was it solved, and what did it say?

Simple is a very relative term. In the world of cryptography, this cipher is very simple. I still can't be fucked with working out the precise mechanics behind it, but it looks like a transpositional cipher. It'd take some time to figure out what the rearrangement rules are as I haven't made a serious study of codebreaking (I'm far more interested in the encrypting part), but it's not terribly complex.

Looking back I suppose it was quite easy to identify the code, if you knew what to look for, and then pretty easy to decipher that, but to me, having absolutely no knowledge of these types of codes and cyphers and whatnot, that just seemed impossible.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

The answer is 4.
It's always fucking 4.

4 GOD-DAMMIT! 4!!!


Plus i don't know much about American history... so that's my excuse for not exactly trying that hard.

You mean 42, right, the answer is always 42. At least that's what the internet tells me...

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

Fear not! there will be another one coming, however it will be a great deal more difficult and may be made up of multiple parts, however, there will be a prize at the end of the next one! Although i have yet to decide what the particular prize will be.