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Decipher This: Answer

This quiz was sort of inspired by watching The Imitation Game, with what a family member called, 'that English actor with the funny name.' Also by the NSA, who were kind enough to declassify this document after so many years. I mean, it is sort of fitting that they lift the veil of secrecy on cryptography from 1913 during the World War I centenary.

The solution, as you have no doubt figured out, is as follows:

Code: SGDQDHRMNLNQDFTDRRHMFHMBQXOSNFQXOGXSGXMSGDQDHRHMXKFDAQX.

Solution: There is no more guessing in cryptography than there is in Algebra.

That was Fabyan's story, and he was sticking to it.

If you thought that was hard, you were probably overthinking it. Ask Icy North, he's good at this sort of thing, and he'll show you how easy it is.

By the way, if you want to know more about George Fabyan, read this article from the Chicago Tribune.

A hand types away at the keys of a piece of Second World War codebreaking equipment at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire
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