The Daily Cryptogram
July 14, 2009
Many newspapers publish a cryptogram each day; for instance:
P OYUUAOEXYW YM AEFGAD, FZGPEAG JAATUL, MYC ENA AGFOPEXYW PWG AWSYLVAWE YM ENA DPHHL ZCYICPVVAC
The deciphered cryptogram is usually a quote from a famous author, often advice for daily life or a pithy saying. Cryptographically, these puzzles are monoalphabetic substitution ciphers, with each of the twenty-six plain-text letters systematically replaced by a cipher-text letter.
Your task is to write a program that decrypts the daily cryptogram, and use that program to read the message given above. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 