# He Thrusts His Fists Against the Post
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## Details
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> {ea-vetgaytereoreh-na}fan--wshbestpasslds-s-hm---
Looking at the string in the description, it looks like it has standard alphabet characters and even the {} curly braces for the flag, but they aren't in the right place.
This makes me thing the string has been encoded using a transposition cipher.?!
The name of the challenge along with the picture in the challenge details further points me towards a **"Rail Fence Cipher"** (a type of transposition cipher).
Using our old friend [CyberChef](https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Rail_Fence_Cipher_Decode(4,74)&input=e2VhLXZldGdheXRlcmVvcmVoLW5hfWZhbi0td3NoYmVzdHBhc3NsZHMtcy1obQ) and with a bit of expirementation to find the correct Key and Offset, we find our flag;
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/73170900/137747012-4017ccea-1498-4bdc-a6e3-6a20dbd0ad75.png)
## flag{and-yet-swears-he-observes-the-phantasms}