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Thread Author: Crankcase	Replies: 24

New Fri 23 Nov 12 10:45   Pigeon English - in code - Crankcase

Come along then brainy ones. Let's have this cracked by lunchtime and add a little to the history of WW2. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20456782 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 11:15   Pigeon English - in code - R.P.

Just de-coded it using advanced CAB algorithms. It;s from Primark HQ Last edited by: R.P. on Fri 23 Nov 12 at 11:26 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 11:23   Pigeon English - in code - Crankcase

Don't put him in a flap. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 11:34   Pigeon English - in code - bathtub tom

When I first saw this story, I wondered what if: A German spy used a document that was an imitation of British format and the pigeon was flying home to Germany? Perhaps we're asking in the wrong country? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 11:38   Pigeon English - in code - zookeeper

so the pigeon was a double agent? blimey didnt know they were that clever Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 11:52   Pigeon English - in code - WillDeBeest

I liked this from the GCHQ historian: We didn't really hold out any hopes we would be able to read the message because the sort of codes that were constructed to be used during operations were designed only to be able to be read by the senders and the recipients. As distinct from what? Modern codes that are designed to be read by anyone who finds a laptop on a train? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 12:22   Pigeon English - in code - Fursty Ferret

>> As distinct from what? Modern codes that are designed to be read by anyone who >> finds a laptop on a train? >> I'm assuming it's a cipher generated from a one-time-pad, which is mathematically impossible to crack. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 12:29   Pigeon English - in code - TheManWithNoName

It'll be a secret code which was from a double agent working for the German high command (Historical Department) who deciphered the Mayan calendar and realised the world would end in 2012. It reveals the secret location of a spacecraft built by the Germans buried under a mountain in Holland. The craft, powered by nuclear fusion was to transport the great grandchildren of Hitler and be crewed by Aryans who would be used to populate the universe for the next thousand ye... 'ang on a minute, this sounds good. I ought to pen a book or a screenplay. Hmmm Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 12:57   Pigeon English - in code - Jetski

Perhaps it's Schindler's list. Last edited by: Jetski on Fri 23 Nov 12 at 12:59 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 13:03   Pigeon English - in code - Crankcase

>> 'ang on a minute, this sounds good. I ought to pen a book or a >> screenplay. Hmmm >> Not far off been done - film called Iron Sky, about Nazis re-invading us, from, of course, the Moon. It's on Netflix et al. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 13:46   Pigeon English - in code - Cliff Pope

Observe, my dear Watson, three salient points: 1) All the "words" consist of 5 letters. Therefore it is very unlikely that the blocks directly transpose into meaningful words in themselves 2) All 26 letters of the alphabet are used, which would appear to rule out any simple code like the 25-letter alphabet used by prisoners to tap messages through pipes. 3) There are several instances of double letters, all different. There are a limited number of letters in English that can be used in doubles - ee, oo, mm ? cc ? I think it refers to the first lines of pages in a set book - I suggest Alice in Wonderland. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 14:20   Pigeon English - in code - Zero

Its patently obvious, www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj6-LG5VpGk Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Fri 23 Nov 12 14:30   Pigeon English - in code - zookeeper

tinyurl.com/be8z334 Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 24 Nov 12 at 00:23 Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 14:49   Pigeon English - in code - WillDeBeest

Enjoying your new widescreen monitor, Keeper? };---) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 14:52   Pigeon English - in code - Runfer D'Hills

He needs one of those little owls. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 23 Nov 12 14:54   Pigeon English - in code - zookeeper

blimey , lookslike it Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 24 Nov 12 00:23   Pigeon English - in code - VxFan

>> blimey , lookslike it Now corrected. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 17 Dec 12 18:29   Pigeon English - in code - FocalPoint

Solved, allegedly: AOAKN - Artillery Observer At "K" Sector, Normandy HVPKD - Have Panzers Know Directions FNFJW - Final Note [confirming] Found Jerry's Whereabouts DJHFP - Determined Jerry's Headquarters Front Posts CMPNW - Counter Measures [against] Panzers Not Working PABLIZ - Panzer Attack - Blitz KLDTS - Know [where] Local Dispatch Station 27 / 1526 / 6 - June 27th, 1526 hours see www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20749632 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 18 Dec 12 12:00   Pigeon English - in code - Bigtee

Looks all a bit too easy for GCHQ........... There listening to my phone calls the nosey so and so. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 18 Dec 12 15:52   Pigeon English - in code - Cliff Pope

If that's all it is, just acronyms, then it doesn't sound very secret. They must have been selected from a known list of possibilities, you can't just let people invent them because no one would know what they were. Try this one: SRWGTA Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 19 Dec 12 10:07   Pigeon English - in code - Cliff Pope

All right, I'll decode it for you: Send Reinforcements We're Going To Advance Last edited by: Cliff Pope on Wed 19 Dec 12 at 10:07 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 19 Dec 12 10:22   Pigeon English - in code - Crankcase

D'oh! struggled with that one. Thought it read STAFWGTAD, of course. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 19 Dec 12 10:33   Pigeon English - in code - Manatee

send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance? Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 19 Dec 12 10:37   Pigeon English - in code - Crankcase

Inevitably. It's feeble of course, but I have a personal attachment to that joke. It was the only joke I can recall my dad telling me in his life, probably in the mid sixties. That however, was also the era of "what's blue and got four bottoms", memorably told to me at about the same time by my sister. I thought both hilarious at the age of five. Last edited by: Crankcase on Wed 19 Dec 12 at 10:39 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 19 Dec 12 11:34   Pigeon English - in code - henry k

And the patient in hospital with an oxygen mask on . " Nurse are my testicles black ?" After many repeat requests and an eventual inspection. " No they are pink" " No, No, Nurse, are my test results back" Hat coat. Last edited by: henry k on Wed 19 Dec 12 at 11:35 Reply to this message | Report message