A 14-year-old boy deciphers the code of the intelligence agency engraved on the coin in one hour

The 50-cent coin made by the Australian Mint to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Australian Signals Department (ASD) has multiple coins in honor of the importance of cryptography and the evolution of intelligence activities through interception of communications, as the ASD is an intelligence agency. is engraved with the code of There was also a window called 'Contact me if you can decipher it', and it turned out that it was deciphered in just over an hour by a 14-year-old boy in Tasmania.

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The design of the commemorative coin looks like this.

According to ASD, the coin has four layers of encryption, each progressively more difficult. There are hints on both sides of the coin, and according to ASD Executive Director Rachel Noble, it was created in the hope that someone who could crack the code on the coin might apply for a job at ASD. He said.

In deciphering, there are ciphers that can be solved with paper and pencil as the earliest ASD staff did, but it seems that computers may be necessary for those with high difficulty.

Nonetheless, it seems that it was unexpected that a 14-year-old boy would achieve it in only about an hour from issuance until it was broken. I think,” he says.

The message that is decoded and comes out is not confidential information, but `` wonderfully uplifting content ''.

In addition, Secretary Noble also clarifies that the coin has a fifth layer encryption that no one has yet solved.