Christmas Challenge 2020 – Day 07 (Dec 24)

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Day 7: Double columnar transposition cipher

Keys: “the end” (6 4 2 3 5 1) for both keys

Plaintext :
Beneath the Planet of the Apes names the device only as the “Doomsday Bomb”. The Beneath the Planet of the Apes book-n-record set by Power Records refers to the missile as the “Alpha-Omega Bomb”. Promotional material for Battle for the Planet of the Apes also made reference to the bomb, even though it would not appear onscreen. It claimed that it takes it’s name from the Bible’s ‘Book of Revelations’, which enjoins “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”