Decrypt using 5×76 transposition cipher
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Decrypt using 5×76 transposition cipher

Challenge No. 335: This is a 5 x 76 transposition cipher, where you start with the letter in the final position (‘W’) and then repeatedly step back through the whole ciphertext 5 positions at a time time, and then repeat that same process but starting from the letter one before the last position (‘T’) etc, revealing the first words of Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’.
Solved using: Python in Excel.