This Week’s Puzzle Tweet – SOLVED!

And the WINNER is @assmatt!  Watch for your PDC09 swag in the mail this week!  For the people playing along with today’s puzzle tweet, a little more info on the cipher…

The puzzle:  My word, encrypted 4 times with the same cipher, makes DKQPHMCR, RWSNUIGH, UPYSFGJX, XNEKABOF in some order. 1st to find it wins!

Answer: ASTEROID. Encryptions, in order, are: UPYSFGJX, DKQPHMCR, XNEKABOF, RWSNUIGH.

It’s a simple substitution cipher:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

UIOXSHMAJCN?BWGKEFPYD??RQ?

where the ?’s are L,T,V,Z in some order (doesn’t matter, since they are not used, so long as you don’t have Z->Z)