Friday, November 23, 2012

Any Amateur Cryptographers Out There?

You might try your hand at deciphering this British WWII code, found attached to the skeletal leg of a carrier pigeon found in a chimney back in August:



The message was carried in a little red leg canister attached to the pigeon's leg:



I love stories like this.
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1 comment:

  1. Borepatch11/23/2012 10:31:00 PM

    It seems that it was encoded with a one-time pad. That's not breakable, even theoretically. They'd need the original materials.

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