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N49° 50.296  W97° 05.573 (WGS84)
UTM  14U   E 637131  N 5522393
Use waypoint: GCZ1PK
Size: Small Small    Hidden on 10/26/2006
In Manitoba, Canada
Difficulty:  4 out of 5   Terrain:  1.5 out of 5
Available at all times  Recommended at night  Available during winter  Parking available  Public transportation  Drinking water nearby  Public restrooms nearby  Telephone nearby  Stroller accessible 
   


Hints at geocaching.com are "encrypted" with ROT13, where each letter is shifted 13 characters to hide the text. This is not encryption. This is obfuscation. Figuring out such hints is (as ROT13 is intended to be) trivial. There are other forms of encryption that are much harder to break, however...

Cache is not at the posted co-ordinates!


RSA Public Key: (3599, 53)
Plain text
alphabet
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z space ? . , H I, N T
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 0809,1420

You may find this calculator useful, although any high-precision calculator (such as the Windows desktop calculator app) will do.



3092,0781,0998,1308,0781 1991,3353,2793,3496,1776
2975,0853,0781,3404,0835 0304,2982,2814,3092,3116
0781,0702,0829,3299,1398 3536,1980,0096,1149,1602
1939,2986,0267,3404,0835 0304,2986,3114,3192,3312
1127,0390,2542,2696,2645 1829


Cache is a 180mL Lock&Lock containing a log book and a pencil. It's small, but does have room for some goodies. Good luck!




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Current at 11/6/2011

Found it 5/2/2007 by Kabuthunk
I can't say I expected to be able to solve this puzzle on my own. I spent hours upon hours reading over RSA encryption, fiddling with the numbers... doing everything I could think of doing.

Yet I still lived up to my expectations of being unable to solve this on my own ToungeOut. After many fruitless hours of toiling away on it, I called out to friends via the interwebbing, and after much waiting (and a little more toiling myself), someone came upon the solution. Then again, the way they explained it to me made a BIT more sense... but not much ToungeOut.

In either case... with the coordinates in hand, I was primed to hunt down some cache. Unfortunately, after work today I had several prior engagements that couldn't me migrated or worked around. Hence, I had to wait a bit... until about 9:15 pm. The sun had just set, and the light was waning quickly. But still... off I set. I arrived at about 9:30, and quickly set to work hunting. It took me several minutes however, since I was... shall we say... looking incorrectly height-wise ToungeOut. But... I prevailed.

The good thing about doing a cache this late is that there's like... next to noone around, so avoiding drawing attention or prying eyes was quite easy. Thanks for the cache, and stretching my brain muscle more than it's used to being stretched... even if I did reach it's elasticity and needed some help to go the last few millimeters ToungeOut.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball


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