Tags: caesar crypto rot7
Rating: 5.0
# Access Denied 1.2 2018 – A Riddle to solve
* **Category:** crypto
* **Points:** 50
## Challenge
> "A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."
>
> Are you valiant enough to find the flag?
>
> Download file from : https://accessd.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/crypto50.txt
>
> TAKE CARE OF CASE SENSITIVITY
## Solution
The quote is from William Shakespeare's *Julius Caesar*, so the [Caesar cipher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher) must be involved.
The content of the downloaded file is the following:
```
tvvxllwxgbxw{pX_TkX_UX_VHeExZx_tlwpYP}
```
Considering that the first letter must be an `a`, due to flag syntax, the rotation should be of 7 places (i.e. ROT7).
An [on-line service](https://www.rot13.com/) can be used to obtain the flag:
```
accessdenied{wE_ArE_BE_COlLeGe_asdwFW}
```
