GCHQ Code Crack

[Tealeaf]

GCHQ are in the process of recruiting more cryptologists. They've set a little test. Can any of you lot break this code and provide the answer?

Can you crack it?

I'll give you a little clue for a starter. Look at the letters - they only run a-f.

Enjoy!

 

[Less]

They run a to f because it's hex code.
Which is used for machine code etc on computers.

 

[Tealeaf]

You're getting warm, Less.

Here's a bit more:

2 columns of 8 = 16

Then 10 rows.

 

[Less]

You're getting warm, Less.

Here's a bit more:

2 columns of 8 = 16

Then 10 rows.

Thanks for the clues but if I could be bothered to decipher it I would do what Allen Turing did and build a bomb.
Besides, I'm a little too long in the tooth to sign the official secrets act again!

Damn, you sweet talker, you weadled it out of me, now I'll have to go outside and shoot myself with this cyanide capsule.

 

[Tealeaf]

You don't need a bomb - if you can do a medium soduku, then you can break it.

 

[Less]

You don't need a bomb - if you can do a medium soduku, then you can break it.

I might not need a bomb, but like all good Civil Servants, I will requisition the parts for one so that they don't cut next years budget.

 

[davemac]

Is the answer "sausages."

 

[wadey]

"Wear a red carnation"

 

[garinda]

No chance.

If they'd stuck me down at Bletchley Park, we'd all be ruled by Germans now.

Hang on though...

 

[cashman]

Well i'll give yehs another clue- it aint "Bollocks"

 

[mobertol]

You don't need a bomb - if you can do a medium soduku, then you can break it.

I do killers but haven't got a clue -too much to take in at this time of night - hope it doesn't leave the nation open to attack...

 

[DaveinGermany]

Here you go.

GCHQ spy recruitment code solved - Telegraph