Answer:
1. Solve the gold bug cipher to recover the plaintext: 1634;8(
Additional information:
The Gold-Bug cipher was included in a short story by Edgar Allan Poe and which was published in 1843. It tells the tale of William Legrand and how he was bitten by a gold-colored bug. The mapping is: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 52-†81346,709*‡.$();?¶]¢:[ In the book he writes: Here Legrand, having re-heated the parchment, submitted it to my inspection. The following characters were rudely traced, in a red tint, between the death's-head and the goat: 53‡‡†305))6*;4826)4‡.)4‡);806*;48†8¶60))85;1‡(;:‡*8†83(88)5*†; 46(;88*96*?;8)*‡(;485);5*†2:*‡(;4956*2(5*—4)8¶8*;4069285);)6†8 )4‡‡;1(‡9;48081;8:8‡1;48†85;4)485†528806*81(‡9;48;(88;4(‡? 34;48)4‡;161;:188;‡?; This is translated as: 5 - A 3‡‡† - good 305)) - glass 6* - in ;48 - the
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