2002
- Introduction
- Message 2
- Message 3
- Message 4
- Message 5
- Message 6
- Message 7
- Message 8
- Message 9
- Message 10
- Message 12
- Message 13
- Message 14
- Message 15
- Message 16
Message 11 was a plain text document which has not survived.
I have not yet been able to find the diagrams for the wiring of Rotor1, Rotor2 or the Reflector! It just makes a a teeny-weeny bit harder!
The story so far . . .
In 1838 Queen Victoria has just been crowned and three of the greatest British scientific minds of the 19th century dream up the idea of a sophisticated and revolutionary mechanical cipher machine - an idea about a hundred years ahead of its time - that threatens to upset the international political balance. Their machine inevitably attracts the attention of a foreign power that is out to steal the idea for its own ends. Follow this adventure by cracking their coded correspondence on our Cipher Challenge trail! Be the first to crack each message and you and your school will each win a prize from the £10,000 total prize fund.
2003
Challenges 6 and 8 only exist as .gif files. The others had links to a text file but for some reason 6 & 8 come only in this format - tough!
2004
The name is Harry. Harry Schulz Vandiver. Like you I'm a mathematician, and like you I have a job to do . We have to solve the mystery of Die Alchemisten. Lives may depend on it.
In March 1937, in the wreckage of the Hindenburg the FBI discovered a small packet of documents. They carried a swastika and the legend "Die Alchemisten " — the alchemists — so you might think someone would have taken notice, but somehow they didn't. Then early in 1939 my friend Phil over in the Bureau was taking a look at a hooky insurance scam, mail fraud, you know the sort of thing, when he found the papers. Alarm bells rang across Washington when they noticed they were encrypted. With war drums beating in Europe Phil's department was asked to look into it. When they couldn't crack it they called me in. It looked to them like maybe the fire might not have been an accident after all ...
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