[Website] Can you crack the code?

[bladedanny]

BBC News - Today - Can you crack the code?

A coded message dating from WW2 has been found attached to a long deceased pigeon leg.

[X-13]

INB4 it's another GCHQ recruitment thing.

[JJonas]

INB4 it's another GCHQ recruitment thing.

GCHQ cant decrypt it

[X-13]

GCHQ cant decrypt it

That's what they want you to think.

[SYNACK]

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

-- Reminder: Buy milk --

[tmcd35]

It took a bit of effort, but I finally got it...

Wake up, Muttley, you're dreaming again!
You're not Robin Hood and you're not Gunga Din.*
You're not a brave knight or a king who's been crowned;
You're just plain old Muttley, the snickering hound!

[jumpinjamez]

I knew Dick Dastardly would get him one day.

[Michael]

Thing is if no one has a formula for this code, how on earth will they know it's actually correct?

[TechMonkey]

The last numbers makes me think it is a one time code or tied to a code pad. That would make it very hard to crack, if not impossible.

[Michael]

I thought it was well known that during WWII they changed the encryption algorithms frequently, so it's no real surprise no one can solve it.

[tmcd35]

Apparently both Bletchley Park and the Science Museum have some Enigma Machines, perhaps it's time to put one of them back to work?

[jinnantonnixx]

"Send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance. Massage ends."

[Ketlane]

If it's that short and from a one-time pad, it's virtually uncrackable.

[pcstru]

If it's that short and from a one-time pad, it's virtually uncrackable.

If it is a one time pad, it is not "virtually" uncrackable, it *is* uncrackable. You need the cleartext - there is no other way.

[DaveP]

Link: BBC News - Has World War II carrier pigeon message been cracked?