Cryptology from the crypt: how I cracked a 70-year-old coded message from beyond the grave
- Written by Richard Bean, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
The American Survival Research Foundation offered a reward of $1,000 for cracking one of Thouless's two codes within three years of his death. It was not claimed. Shutterstock.com
In recent weeks I managed to decrypt a difficult cipher that, despite expert codebreakers’ best efforts, had remained unsolved for 70 years.
The code was created by...