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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import collections
+import sys
+from typing import NamedTuple
+
+
+class Room(NamedTuple):
+    name: str
+    sector_id: int
+    checksum: str
+
+    def is_real(self) -> bool:
+        letters = collections.Counter(self.name.replace("-", ""))
+        checksum = sorted(letters.most_common(), key=lambda t: (-t[1], t[0]))[:5]
+        return "".join(c for c, _ in checksum) == self.checksum
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_str(cls, input: str) -> "Room":
+        input, checksum = map(lambda s: s.removesuffix("]"), input.split("["))
+        *name, sector_id = input.split("-")
+        return cls("-".join(name), int(sector_id), checksum)
+
+    def decrypt(self) -> str:
+        def rotate(c: str) -> str:
+            rotated = ord(c) - ord("a") + self.sector_id
+            return chr(ord("a") + rotated % 26)
+
+        return "".join(rotate(c) if c != "-" else " " for c in self.name)
+
+
+def solve(input: str) -> int:
+    def parse(input: str) -> list[Room]:
+        return [Room.from_str(line) for line in input.splitlines()]
+
+    rooms = parse(input)
+    for room in rooms:
+        if not room.is_real():
+            continue
+        if room.decrypt() != "northpole object storage":
+            continue
+        return room.sector_id
+    assert False  # Sanity check
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    input = sys.stdin.read()
+    print(solve(input))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()