Are YOU a codebreaker?

[Artois]

Can you crack it?


This is a website set up by UK intelligence agency GCHQ to try and recruit new codebreakers

Article: BBC News

 

[surrey jim]

saw this earlier and dont have a clue!

 

[magoo]

Looks like hex programming language?

 

[Billy the Fish]

f*** sake, I hate looking at hex, can't be bothered already

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

If I told you Id have to kill you.

 

[Gangsta]

Why? Are we re-opening Bletchley Park so we can evesdrop in on the beastly Germans with their weekly tryst with the French Vichy government secretly carving up Euro-land for themselves? I'm sure Glan McClure could help out.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Looks like hex programming language?

They certainly could be hex numbers, but is can't just be a simple translation into an ascii character set, some of them are unprintable characters. The cypher must be more complex than that, and probably beyond me.

 

[Doc Lynam]

All im going to say is whoever wrote that really doesnt like Sepp Blatter, never even knew he liked donkeys!

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

"The red dove flies at midnight"

 

[spongy]

Nope,

Looks like the matrix to me.

 

[Biscuit]

Hexadecimal pairs, the 2 seprated grids may be significant. Looks like the keyword is only one word which means there must be a lot of filler, will need to put it through a filter.

Here it is written out if anyone wants to have a go:

eb 04 af c2 bf a3 81 ec
0c fe c1 75 f9 31 c0 ba
d0 c1 ca 08 8a 1c 0c 8a
fe c1 75 e8 e9 5c 00 00
00 5c 58 3d 41 41 41 41
75 3b 5a 89 d1 89 e6 89
d1 89 df 29 cf 31 c0 31
8a 14 06 8a 34 1e 88 34
8a 1c 16 8a 17 30 da 88
d8 fe c0 cd 80 90 90 e8

00 01 00 00 31 c9 88 0c
ef be ad de 02 04 0c 00
3c 04 88 1c 04 88 3c 0c
00 89 e3 81 c3 04 00 00
75 43 58 3d 42 42 42 42
df 29 cf f3 a4 89 de 89
db 31 d2 fe c0 02 1c 06
06 88 14 1e 00 f2 30 f6
17 47 49 75 de 31 db 89
9d ff ff ff 41 41 41 41

... I have no idea.

 

[strings]

I don't understand this type of thing myself. But, I am told that once you 'crack it' you are left with a secondary code that will need cracking. Sounds complex.

 

[magoo]

Maybe it's simpler than that. I noticed that the time left takes you to Sun 11th dec but have no idea if that date is significant.

 

[Doc Lynam]

Maybe it's simpler than that. I noticed that the time left takes you to Sun 11th dec but have no idea if that date is significant.

lol

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Maybe it's simpler than that. I noticed that the time left takes you to Sun 11th dec but have no idea if that date is significant.

end of the world

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

I saw the link and thought yea I'll have a go, opened the link, looked at the code, closed the page and went back to sipping my tea...

 

[Manx Shearwater]

I've got the words 'Glenn', 'Murray', and 'Massive' so far. Give me another thirty minutes and I should have the whole thing.

 

[KZNSeagull]

John has a long moustache?

 

[magoo]

ooh it's like Challenge Anneka isn't it!

 

[brakespear]

Hexadecimal pairs, the 2 seprated grids may be significant. Looks like the keyword is only one word which means there must be a lot of filler, will need to put it through a filter.

Here it is written out if anyone wants to have a go:

eb 04 af c2 bf a3 81 ec
0c fe c1 75 f9 31 c0 ba
d0 c1 ca 08 8a 1c 0c 8a
fe c1 75 e8 e9 5c 00 00
00 5c 58 3d 41 41 41 41
75 3b 5a 89 d1 89 e6 89
d1 89 df 29 cf 31 c0 31
8a 14 06 8a 34 1e 88 34
8a 1c 16 8a 17 30 da 88
d8 fe c0 cd 80 90 90 e8

00 01 00 00 31 c9 88 0c
ef be ad de 02 04 0c 00
3c 04 88 1c 04 88 3c 0c
00 89 e3 81 c3 04 00 00
75 43 58 3d 42 42 42 42
df 29 cf f3 a4 89 de 89
db 31 d2 fe c0 02 1c 06
06 88 14 1e 00 f2 30 f6
17 47 49 75 de 31 db 89
9d ff ff ff 41 41 41 41

... I have no idea.

cheers for writing that out so I didn't have to