Message to Ken

Challenge

Barbie has written a secret message for her sweetheart Ken. Can you decrypt it?

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Fabrgal JaeM Hsa faonah uiff;rnl tf btuxbrffuinhzoroyhitbM Fincta dd

Hint: Shift+Lock+1

Solution Holy crap this is AWESOME. This relies on you knowing about the barbie typewriters made in the 90s that had a secret code mechanism. http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/#e118

So this is key 2 for coding.

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norm: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789
   1: torbiudfhgzcvanqyepskx¢1w; RC>GHAPND<VUBLIKJETOYXM2QF 63405789-¨
   2: icolapxstvybjeruknfhqg;dzw >FAUTCYOLVJDZINQKSEHG<.1PB 523406789-
   3: hrnctqlpsxwogiekzaufyd+b;¢ SARYO>QIUX<GFDLJVTHNP1Z3KC 7405689-¨§
   4: sneohkbufd;rxtaywiqpzl%c¢+ E>SPNRKLG1XYCUDV<HOIQ2B4JA 805679-¨§£

‘Beloved KenM The secret password is lipglosspartycocktailM Barbie xx’

put the password into the egg-o-matic:

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