A Christmas Cipher Test

Well, just in case you get bored over the Christmas break, here is my Christmas Cipher Test.
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A Christmas Cipher Test

Well, just in case you get bored over the Christmas break, here is my Christmas Cipher Test.

  1. Where would you find the alphabet of “123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMN PQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz”?

2. Which football team is this:

QNAJWUTTQ

3. Which city is this (hint):

%65%64%69%6E%62%75%72%67%68

4. Which message would Mary Queen of Scots send with this (hint):

6. For the Pigpen message below. What is the word (hint)?

7. For the semaphore message, what is the limb that is referenced (hint):

8. For the Knight’s Templar Cipher, what is the organ that is referred to in the cipher (hint):

9. Name the limb (hint):

10. Someone scrawled this on the wall, what does it say (hint):

11. A monk has drawn this symbol, what is the value (hint):

12. The monk has also drawn some triangles on a wall, what does it say (hint):

13. You speak to a Navajo Native American, and he writes down (hint):

Dibeh Moashi Wol-la-chee Nesh-chee Nesh-chee Dzeh Gah

What has he just written?

14. Which Web site is this:

15. What is the message (hint):

TOTETHEOOEROTBTAITEUSINBNOHSQT

16. You open up your Xmas presents, and you find a Dvorak keyboard. You are so happy, and find a message of:

ODR,IPRGBE

What is the secret message (hint)?

17. Crack the following line from a famous Christmas song (hint):

bagursvsguqnlbekznfzlgehrybirfnvqgbzr

18. Your typewriter is stuck and can only produce an ‘A’ or a ‘B’, but is it trying to tell you something (hint):

AAABA ABBAB ABBAA ABBAA AABAA AAABA BAABA ABAAA ABBAB ABBAA

19. Someone send you a message, and tell you that the alphabet on their keyboard has been inverted. What is the message:

UOLDVI

20. Your favouriate Death Metal band has just released a new album, and it is called ᚠ ᛁ ᚾ ᛞ … what is its name (hint)?

21. For a Playfair cipher with a code word of “xmas”, what is the plain text for (hint):

dlwdctifgkpltnbm

22. How many Xmas things are referred to here (hint):

(··—·) (— — —) (··—) (·—·) (··—·) (·—·) (·) (—·) 
(—·—·) (····) (····) (·) (—·) (···)

23. In computer systems of the past, we used a punch code with six digits. Can you decode this (hint):

[25-11001][7-00111][9-01001][9-01001][21-10101][16-10000][20-10100]
[1-00001][1-00001][18-10010][13-01101]

24. For a keyword of “xmas” in the keyword cipher, how many animals are referred to here (hint):

rvlrtpibslubq

25. A cipher uses the One Time Pad given below. The key has character positions of: [38][120][53][230][84][21][107][214]. If the cipher text is “xhnexcyjot”, what is the country (hint)?

fmcwv bwjmo ednnv xyxha xsksh 
iaphf ggyeh zvhkp alvxb zuvii 
oqbwj mbkom agbhi yejgv brnrz 
lxmqi ofhyq pebuu xlsxp ujnod 
ukomh xckwy potgx uzcrt tdomy 
qzqcf bkxnn equrt muewf islzu 
vhvvj rvcoq ymirw frfst eflyg 
yysgp xnqhk uobdw iofav amnaz 
rmsfq pwxpl sdvys kwahc rpbwl 
pzkcg llsgy kulru yqmsd eshik

26. For a Vigenère cipher with a key of “anteater”, what is this country (hint):

SPHXLTRU

27. Your TV decoder has stopped working, but you can still read the ‘0’s and ‘1’s that are coming through. It looks like a Huffy code, but what does it say (hint):

01101000110001100011010011100111

28. You are in a train station, and there are three rails in front of you and a message on the ground with:

BGNAK RUDCO

Can you work out the secret message (hint)?

29. A message on the pavement says:

42 30 88 51 30 88

You do a frequency analysis on the cipher, but can’t find a match to letters. What is the message (hint)?

30. Crack the following message [helper]:

YXZ AIA HVSU QUDX DVSEGBIUH HVGM AOMIBF QXU EGHQ AUDGAU, 2000 QXMVOFX 2009, YXINU VQXUMH CNVOBAUMUA? QXU YIBBUMH — GEENU, FVVFNU GBA HGNUHCVMDU.DVS, CVM IBHQGBDU — XGA QXU CVMUHIFXQ QV IBPUBQ BUY, EMVCIQGLNU HUDQVMH (AIFIQGN SUAIG AUPIDUH GBA HUMPIDUH, IBQUMBUQ GAPUMQIHIBF, HVCQYGMU-GH-G-HUMPIDU). QXU NUHH CVMQOBGQU — GVN, AUNN GBA HOB, CVM IBHQGBDU — FVQ AIHQMGDQUA VM FOUHHUA YMVBF VB SGJVM QMUBAH. XUMU’H VOM QGWU VB QXU AUDGAU’H YIBBUMH GBA NVHUMH IB QUDXBVNVFZ.IQ’H UGHZ QV CGYB VPUM GEENU. NUQ’H BVQ. GEENU’H EMVAODQH GMUB’Q DXUGE. IQH USENVZUUH GMU HUDMUQIPU GLVOQ OEDVSIBF EMVAODQH. GBA GEENU XGH AVBU G QUMMILNU JVL VC DVSSOBIDGQIBF QXU XUGNQX HQGQOH VC MVDW HQGM DXIUC UTUDOQIPU HQUPU JVLH, YXV QVVW G SZHQUMIVOH HIT-SVBQX NUGPU VC GLHUBDU NGHQ JGBOGMZ VBNZ QV MUHOMCGDU YIQX G NIPUM QMGBHENGBQ IB JOBU. BVBU VC QXGQ, XVYUPUM, MUGNNZ SGQQUMH. VPUM QXU EGHQ 10 ZUGMH GEENU’H HQVDW XGH MIHUB SVMU QXGB 650%. IQH USENVZUU XUGA DVOBQ MVHU QV 32,000 NGHQ ZUGM CMVS 8,568 IB HUEQUSLUM VC 2000. GEENU MVOQIBUNZ QVEH QXU ED DGQUFVMZ VC QXU GSUMIDGB DOHQVSUM HGQIHCGDQIVB IBAUT. CIBGNNZ, JVLH’ GLHUBDU EMVPUA XU XGH LOINQ G QUGS QXGQ DGB AUNIPUM FVVA MUHONQH — IC BVQ AUQGINUA OEAGQUH GLVOQ XIH XUGNQX

31. Decode this Fernet encrypted token [Hint]:

Key:  6kTeA34qVThywZ1JPdXqNQiITYg16ipYQ0MCOz-W53s=
Token:  gAAAAABcF5ukEz67bbRwO8fmHRVVTCBIwz_0x7eGzP93ODoHRnVPO06UcW2wIepSVcd-1inY0_QaCjm0lXAJtKaVs71c17k7VWOLLgQebB_B5FluZNwU-Cs=

32. On the pavement there are messages which often have equal signs at the end. You read one:

YmFja2JvbmU=

What does it say?

33. Someone tell you that there’s a better cipher than Morse Code, and writes down:

1080958528461490910103860068886509

Can you find out the secret message (hint)?

Want more? Try this:

https://asecuritysite.com/encryption/ctf