WWII Pigeon Code
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- TheBlueOne0
pfft...Says the Pigeon couriers are hungry and need more feed supplies otherwise they might get lost and fly down chimneys
- fadein110
its a parking ticket. pigeon landed on double yellows.
- Jacque0
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From Dec 17th:
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_ne…- <Jacque
- like I said above the canadian guy's solution is absolute crapBaskerviIle
- moniker0
It's just a grocery list.
- i_monk0
I'm surprised it hasn't been cracked yet – shouldn't there be a record of who "X02" was, and therefore some idea of what code book they would have been using for this?
It looks like ENIGMA encoding except for the numbers at the end.
- detritus0
haha, you mad jotter, Baskerville!
- mg330
It says:
Hitler is a nancy He wears lady panties
- BaskerviIle
So this has been taking up some of my spare time since just before Christmas.
So guy found a dead pigeon in his chimney. Attached to the pigeon's foot in a plastic canister was a coded message, evidently from WWII
GCHQ (the UK equivalent of of the US's NSA) have tried and failed to crack the code, so they publicised it and asked for help.I find it cool that there's this hidden message that no one has read since the early 1940s, that contains info about the war. Obviously it's probably impossible to crack but that doesn't stop anyone trying. GCHQ seem to think it's a 'one time pad' code, which is truly impossible to crack unless you have a the pad it was encoded with.
A few weeks ago a guy in Canada said he'd cracked it, but it turns out he 'solution' was rubbish, he just cherrypicked the parts he wanted and made up silly acronyms.So it remains a mystery.
I used to be quite into cryptography so wanted to play around with it and see what patterns etc I could find. It's addictive.
So it anyone here wants to have a go, it's a fun problem to work on.
The message
AOAKN HVPKD FNFJU YIDDC RQXSR DJHFP GOVFN MIAPX PABUZ WYYNP CMPNW HJRZH NLXKG MEMKK ONOIB AKEEQ UAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH LKXGH RGGHT JRZCQ FNKTQ KLDTS FQIRU AOAKN