Cicada 3301: A Modern Myth in the Digital Age
“We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test.” In early January 2012, an innocuous image posted on 4chan announced a cryptic recruitment plea: “We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test.” Thus began Cicada 3301, an extraordinary Continue Reading
Tutte and Flowers – Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes
It all started with the German Lorenz machine – Hitler’s state of the art encrpyting communications machine – Enigma had been broken in 1941, but this time his new machine was almost un-decypherable The Lorenz SZ40, SZ42a and SZ42b were German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army Continue Reading
