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WWII code 'may never be cracked'
BBC ^ | 23 November 2012 | staff reporter

Posted on 11/23/2012 7:43:21 PM PST by Daffynition

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

....[snip]

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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To: GeronL

Putting that in Google translate and hitting the audio is pretty funny.


21 posted on 11/23/2012 8:13:05 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Morgana
Google translator sure doesn't have Apache.

....

마마 딛 낱 랫 ㅏ 덤미. 인 ㅌ루 마마 맫 미 ㅓ 굳 만.

In Korean it's just gibberish

Mama Titus A rose rats ㅏ bonus. Of for ㅌru Mama maet ㅓ GOOD million.

22 posted on 11/23/2012 8:15:35 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Daffynition
like i said on the other threads, if it's a OTP - One Time Pad, good luck...
23 posted on 11/23/2012 8:24:54 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: muawiyah

So that’s what happened to all those little tasty hens...


24 posted on 11/23/2012 8:27:24 PM PST by Ophiucus
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To: Daffynition

Joe hasn’t changed much through the years. Here’s the translation...

“The food sucks. We never get our mail. The Officers are idiots. The Germans have better weapons than us. I never get enough sleep. It’s too hot, cold, rainy and snowy at the same time. My boots are too tight. The Air Force gets all the girls....and some of the guys. Everyone yells at me. I went on sick call and they made me eat a worm. I never get promoted because the Captain hates people with eyebrows.”


25 posted on 11/23/2012 8:30:33 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Daffynition

Don’t send any more pigeons. They’re crapping all over the place.


26 posted on 11/23/2012 8:31:24 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: muawiyah
Wrong ~ it’s not even in English ~ most likely an extinct version of Cornish

I guess we'll need a hen to figure it out.

27 posted on 11/23/2012 8:34:01 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Daffynition

What an ENIGMA!


28 posted on 11/23/2012 8:35:17 PM PST by Jemian
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To: Lancey Howard

Only if she’s game.


29 posted on 11/23/2012 8:36:54 PM PST by Clioman
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To: Daffynition
"The chair is against the wall."
"The chair is against the wall."

"John has a long mustache."
"John has a long mustache."
30 posted on 11/23/2012 8:37:15 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
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To: Daffynition

it says” send up the Enola Gay and Bocks Car and lets get this thing over with”


31 posted on 11/23/2012 8:37:35 PM PST by terycarl
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To: TheZMan

You, sir, are a genius!


32 posted on 11/23/2012 8:43:31 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: GeronL
Google translator sure doesn't have Apache.

Yah-ta-hey (no they don't translate Navajo either)

33 posted on 11/23/2012 8:45:43 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: GeronL
Crypto structure is very important.

For instance:

Japanese KataKana methods.

That was a challenge, with much of the world hanging in the balance.

This is the world of Herbert Yardley and others like him. Including our own Thomas Jefferson.

34 posted on 11/23/2012 9:10:29 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Daffynition
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I got the first five words. It translates to "looky thems teefs. Wegot obama phone...and that's where I get lost.

35 posted on 11/23/2012 9:38:00 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: Chode
The code, when broken down, reads:

In two thousand twelve the welfare masses will overwhelm the polling stations all across the U S A -to vote for free health care, free housing, free cars, free petro, free appliances, free college, free clothing, free cell phones, free televisions, free electricity, free heating oil, free busing, all via voting for socialist obami and the demorats [and everyone else is forever scr*wed].

37 posted on 11/23/2012 10:20:24 PM PST by Mr Apple ( http://www.israelnewsagency.com/iranisraelnuclearariel3890624.html)
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To: Daffynition
SEND
MORE
CHUCK
BERRY
38 posted on 11/24/2012 2:26:06 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Daffynition
Looks very much like a message sent by some Russian agent using their typical onetime day pads. All this type of code - day cyphers - use 5 letters, usually read over radio with Russian first names being used for each letter.

AOAKN being read as Anna, Oleg, Anna, Kirill, Nikita.

And so on for each group. These messages can drone on for a long time.

The code itself has been long broken, but that particular message will likely not be deciphered, unless some one discovers the key to the one day pad in use on that day by Russian agents in England during WWII.

39 posted on 11/24/2012 4:17:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Tainan

I see a little silhouetto of a man,scalamoosh scalamoosh,will you do the fandango
thunderbolts and lightening,very very frightening,
galileo ‘galileo’ galileo ‘galileo’ galileo figaro,magnifico


40 posted on 11/24/2012 4:32:03 AM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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