In [URL=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L-rrkyvApU]this[/URL] quite popular video by freddiew, there is a hidden message at 0:59.
Only stumbled across it now.
May be fun to decipher for some of you.
It sure was for me.
Good luck!
Spoilers start below this line.
It reads:
Ysq xaxrv! W zsix yfi dmdxd kvaw obdvc! A'q oxrp jwvr loifq xatt pcm wixnk mgyk mids
uvtvkzby xabs, sil xabs yok rhmhzby xh wo nwll tgy ldusfbnx Jspox picvyvms. Zh'k nnlt fz'
Xvxwdzs Osgz bvwfk t mokod ntvkrgk!
Xbfe zg ksfxtywfk rhu nwdp gxvvf yim uaty, ks ahpvtmper yfi zew t lriyl hk tnc!
Tym aep rmhx, bf pcm'vx mhv tavlm tf qjevd tywk, wxgd ds s ChnTlpw qxlsruw abmh kvw
takajs: "Xvxwdzs qsn trv o bikd aer A atgt dm lmfx brqc" egw I'cz zshd yfi mt pbty
ggqxmhzby. Em lods hsbgt.
Sm llx pap, Gsq'l poiyarz hn fij rxqt gfgnxvt kvwvx hn ywk ghfplhwv, bgsgwjiw uy
Rqlmobszcf'w kxcvbl evmimwlc. Dxeg of irx olh!
Kmgveisdc, Ykeurai, Ukaergr, tgd Dolxaxw, kvw ghhlvgl hnwej cf xax iehwvgxt.
Tip 1:
Are there any reoccoring words in the text?
Answer:
Yes: yfi - thrice; pcm - once in isolated form, once as pcm'vx; xabs - twice with one word in between;
Xvxwdzs - twice; t - twice; kvw - twice, once as kvwvx; hn - twice + hnwej
Tip 2:
Looking for words that contain an apostrophe might be very helplful.
They are:
A'q, Zh'k, fz', pcm'vx, I'cz, Gsq'l and Rglmobszcf'w
Tip 3:
Pay special attention to one letter words. They most likely translate to I or a or, less likely, to u or r.
More help:
kv and xa appear very frequently at the beginning of words.
uvtvkzby, rhmhzby and ggqxmhzby all end in zby.
Critical hint:
How can you explain weird double letters as in ggqxmhzby and llx?
Partly solved:
It's a polyalphabetic cipher.
More:
It's a Vigenère cipher.
Almost done:
xabs, sil xabs should give you a good idea of how long the key word is.
Alternatively, you could count the letters between the two occurances of Xvxwdzs (154) and then do a prime factorization.
Solution:
It's a Vigenère cipher and the key word is Rosetta.
