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So, its been a few days, did you figure out the solution to our first cryptogram?

This one I thought was pretty easy if you are a geek. And seeing as my blog is pretty tech related, I figured that a lot of people would get this one. Maybe its just me, but when I see certain encoded lines, I can pretty much guess that they are encoded with base64. Maybe I’ve been around email too long.

So if you took our fabulous line and pasted it into any one of a million base64 decoders out there, you would get the following:

With faith and hope, the dream begins anew

It was also a somewhat recent facebook status of mine. The new cryptogram will be coming out in a few days. Stay tuned!

So I’m experimenting with a little contest to see how smart my 3 readers actually are. Every couple of weeks I’m going to post a puzzle. They’ll be pretty easy to start off with and get increasingly more difficult as time goes by and I have time.

Without further ado, here is the first cryptogram.

V2l0aCBmYWl0aCBhbmQgaG9wZSwgdGhlIGRyZWFtIGJlZ2lucyBhbmV3

Good luck!

For each cryptogram, the solution will be posted the following Monday.

Update: Answers are posted on Wednesday, not Mondays.