Fermilab Encrypted Letter

May 20th, 2008 Jason Posted in General, cryptography 1 Comment »

Encryption and Fermilab in the same /. article. I’m in.

Thanks to Geoff’s work on decrypting the first and third part, I’ve been spending my entire day (and night) trying to figure out the middle part. I highly recommend reading his work to get a feel for what has been done so far.

The background is Fermilab received this letter in the mail last March 5th:

Fermilab Encoded Message

In which they tried to decrypt it and had no success. A few days on the internet and bam two individuals decrypted the first and third part independently.

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