CSearch Conference Registration Sponsorship Contest 2019

CSearch is a student-organized conference that draws registrants from across the country. It offers students an excellent opportunity to learn about and talk about computing research. This year the conference will be held at Queen's on October 4/5

For detailed information about the conference, please see the CSearch page: https://www.csearchconference.com/

Once again I am pleased to sponsor up to four students to register for this conference (see "The fine print" below)

The contest:

I have posted an encrypted text here. I will pay the CSearch 2019 registration fee for the first four students who email me the correctly decrypted form of the text. The original text is an exact quote. To be judged correct, your solution must match the original quote.

The encrypted text:

"P.ENETTLDEPAAEHCRFTNETEKEIIMITNUHTEBDEVOEFSICTLIDHBTOEAEETCTOANLERTLCLOALTEOUONAKNTWNEMCEISGEHCBPIIRTATNDWHEHRARULUTAODAOFWTHTIDEEDNEGHDBSGYNXSSOAOIEEVONHNLCEAWOIUTIH"

Note: The " marks at the beginning and end of the previous line are NOT part of the encrypted text. They are included here only to act as markers for the exact beginning and end of the encrypted quote.

The hints:

The encryption involved transposition.
The original quote was converted to all upper case prior to encryption. You must restore the original.
All spaces were removed from the quote prior to encryption. You must restore the spaces.
Punctuation was not removed prior to encryption. The "." close to the start of the encrypted text is the only punctuation mark in the text - but it is not in its original position.
The transposition key is the name of the author of the quote.

A new hint will be posted here each day until the contest closes.

Date	Hints

20190920	"Oh what a tangled web we weave"
20190921	Would you pass the author's test?
20190922	Sometimes it's an in-faro
20190923	The key consists of the author's first and last name, all upper case, with no space between.
20190924 , 20190925	sorry, no clues for these days ... work got in the way!
20190926	I hope you are combing through encryption information
20190927	Some letters are odd

The fine print:

The contest is open to all currently active Queen's students, graduate and undergraduate
Email your solution to dawes@cs.queensu.ca
The subject line of your submission must be "CSearch 2019 Sponsorship Contest Solution"
The sequence of submitted solutions will be established by the order in which they arrive in my inbox
The first four submitted solutions with correct subject line and exactly correct decryption will be the winners
Sponsorship consists of paying the conference registration fee. It does not include other incidental costs related to participation in the conference.