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FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the test-your-skillz dept.

coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the challenge, the FBI is also offering a few primers on the subject. There are a number of sites offering cipher challenges, but it's funny to see the FBI encouraging such behavior.

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  1. Re:Easy. by laddiebuck · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As one UNIX lover to another...

    tr '[abcdefghijklmnoqstvwyz]' '[fideltybravngchkopsuwm]'

    Happy man reading!

  2. Re:This will really piss of the Chinese by drspliff · · Score: 3, Insightful

    RTFA... it's an extremely simple substitution cipher, if the FBI had to outsource this I'd be extremely worried about their technical competancy.

    In the age of public/private key encryption, while there's a NSA hashing algorithm competition running with many well respected scientists competing, the FBI's "lab" comes out with this crap?