Level Two

Ridley, you’ve spent your life evading the police, flouting laws, disarming government systems, hiding your true identity. Your name, of course, is not Ridley; however, that is how you are known in these underground hacking circles and you are the best of the best. People assume you’re a male, but they assume wrong and that has helped you avoid capture for the last ten years.

When push comes to shove though, and the world comes to teetering on the edge of a nuclear holocaust, it is you who they call-the they being the C.I.A.

You have just received a coded message from the C.I.A who have received intelligence about a plot to detonate a high powered nuclear bomb over the U.S.A. If the bomb detonates, retaliation is all but ensured, and the entire world would be wrenched violently into World War 3, a war that humanity would likely not survive.

The unidentified threat is readying to launch in 60 seconds, and you must hack into the PAL (Permissive Access Link) of its system, and decode the key to the bomb before it detonates in the U.S.A in approximately 20 minutes. It goes without saying, that the quicker you do this the better, Ridley, as the world depends on you.

Use the alphabet to help find the key and decode the cipher 

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

CDRSQNX SGD VNQKC

(Hint One: 1) 

(Hint Two: SHIFT)