Ooh, the judge on the Da Vinci code case has hidden a code in his judgement:
smithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzv
I started to investigate it. It is not:
- Caesar cipher (including ROT-13 ;) )
- Atbash cipher
- Vigenere with key of DAVINCI or SMITHYCODE
There isn’t enough ciphertext to use any of the standard attacks against Vigenere, so I just tried a few guessed keys. If it is Vigenere then someone will have to get lucky.
A few people online have noticed that the ciphertext is the same length as “do not waste the time of the high court”….
UPDATE: It’s been solved! And it was Vigenere. The key was generated from the Fibonacci sequence (mentioned in the book apparently).