WWII code 'may never be cracked'

[Teh One Who Knocks]

BBC News


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Experts at intelligence agency GCHQ have asked for help in de-coding a message found attached to a pigeon leg, thought to date back to WWII.

The dead bird was found in a chimney in Surrey a few weeks ago.

But without more information, the code may never be cracked, according to the BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera.

The code is as follows:

AOAKN HVPKD FNFJW YIDDC

RQXSR DJHFP GOVFN MIAPX

PABUZ WYYNP CMPNW HJRZH

NLXKG MEMKK ONOIB AKEEQ

WAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH

LKXGH RGGHT JRZCQ FNKTQ

KLDTS FQIRW AOAKN 27 1525/6

[Griffin]

The message reads, "Send help, I am stuck in a chimney in Surrey!"

Apparently the dumb bird didn't realize the leg was stuck too.

[Noilly Pratt]

I've got it cracked...

AOAKN HVPKD FNFJW YIDDC

D O N T

RQXSR DJHFP GOVFN MIAPX

U S E A

PABUZ WYYNP CMPNW HJRZH

P I G E


NLXKG MEMKK ONOIB AKEEQ

O N F O

WAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH

R M E S

LKXGH RGGHT JRZCQ FNKTQ

S A G I

KLDTS FQIRW AOAKN 27 1525/6

N G ! :D

[Noilly Pratt]

but seriously...I am a bit of a cryptography buff, and I figured out how to remove a woman's bra with a single hand, so how hard can this be? :)

AOAKN probably tells them which cipher to use. It's at the beginning and the end. Or as a clue to translate.

Or...What word means hello and goodbye?

a l o h a k n

Oh forget it....they probably used what's know as a one time pad -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_time_pad

[Hal-9000]

each word has 5 characters, letters not numbers...numbers don't appear until the end so we assume that part is a date in time...

it's the words with successive duplicate letters that's the key :)