# My friend's email

Help! My friend sent me an email but it was encrypted, ciphered, or maybe it just got scrambled! I'm really curious to what it is. Can you guys help me out, please?

To: hannah@******.***

From: josh@******.***

Subject:

Sf;!Ipx!bsf!zpv!gffmjoh@

Body:

Xfmm-!sfdfoumz!J(wf!cffo!fbujoh!tpnf!gjti!boe!dijqt/!Ipx!bcpvu!zpv@

## 1 Answer

Your friend wants to know

Re: How are you feeling?
Well, recently I've been eating some fish and chips. How about you?

It's a ...

simple substitution cipher. ! is obviously a space and @ a trailing punctuation mark; I assumed "." at first but found it was ? from context. The rest was looking at common patterns. f is common, so likely e; zpv might have been the but it's at the end, and has no f for its e so something else - maybe you, which fit. with a few letters to work with, other stuff drops into place.

Hope you enjoyed your lunch.

• More specifically, it looks like a ROT-1 cipher with ASCII as the char-set. Didn't fully check it though.
– user14478
Oct 29 '16 at 18:19
• Well, I got this using quipqiup and was about to post an answer...
– Sid
Oct 29 '16 at 18:21
• lol. i didn't even realize it was rot1. the punctuation checks out as well - it is ROT-1 on ASCII.
– Rubio
Oct 29 '16 at 18:24
• To help fill out the solution, seems the email addresses are actually@)))))).))). Seriously though, I'm disappointed that voters so far don't seem to recognize a good bite-sized puzzle. This solution demonstrates that the puzzle is clued completely solidly.
– humn
Oct 30 '16 at 1:14
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– Rubio
Oct 30 '16 at 18:53