UK intelligence agency GCHQ has launched a code-cracking competition to help attract new talent.

The organisation has invited potential applicants to solve a visual code posted at an unbranded standalone website.

link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15968878

which contains a link to the "challenge". There's a count-down currently standing at 10 days.

I bet Tacit would get it in 10 minutes.

Oh, no you don't. I *so* do not have time to get sucked into this.

The plaintext is sixteen characters long, and each character is made up of ten hexadecimal digits in the cyphertext. I figured that much out and I'm not going to keep chasing it down the rabbit hole; I have too many other things on my plate right now.

Must...not...go...back...to...site....

http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp

Hot damn!!!

That's step one towards getting your Blue Card...not a bad one to have in your wallet these days.

(It didn't seem to take you all that long to crack that code.)

Too bad the UK doesn't participate in the Blue Card ...

Oops... I should have read the entire first sentence.

The point has nonetheless been made.