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Abraham Lincoln
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
The following quote is from the sixteenth President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
Can you decode it?
D=H
"MDQIQMEJI BG VBXJ Q EIJJ QRL IJNCEQEBPR VBXJ Q GDQLPY. EDJ GDQLPY BG YDQE YJ EDBRX PH BE; EDJ EIJJ BG EDJ IJQV EDBRF."
Can you decode it?
D=H
"MDQIQMEJI BG VBXJ Q EIJJ QRL IJNCEQEBPR VBXJ Q GDQLPY. EDJ GDQLPY BG YDQE YJ EDBRX PH BE; EDJ EIJJ BG EDJ IJQV EDBRF."
Hint
G=SV=L
Y=W
Answer
"CHARACTER IS LIKE A TREE AND REPUTATION LIKE A SHADOW. THE SHADOW IS WHAT WE THINK OF IT; THE TREE IS THE REAL THING."KEY:
B=I
C=U
D=H
E=T
F=G
G=S
H=F
I=R
J=E
L=D
M=C
N=P
P=O
Q=A
R=N
V=L
X=K
Y=W
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