# Ever wanted to be a cryptographer? Now's your chance.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wanted-to-be-a-cryptographer-nows-your-chance/604696>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 1, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wanted-to-be-a-cryptographer-nows-your-chance/604696 "2011-12-01T13:40:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kiyoshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kiyoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiyoshi)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wanted-to-be-a-cryptographer-nows-your-chance/604696/21 "2011-12-05T21:44:11Z")

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I’ve googled the solution to this, and read an explanation, and I’m still none the wiser. Something to do with computer code in a series of different programming languages, apparently. However, there’s a lot of people out there who solved it in a couple of minutes! That’s some scary, god-like intelligence!

The only code I know is “a=z, b=y, c=x…”

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**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wanted-to-be-a-cryptographer-nows-your-chance/604696/22 "2011-12-06T10:21:48Z")

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Technically, the title of the thread should be “Ever wanted to be a **cryptanalyst**? Now’s your chance.” Cyptographers make codes/ciphers, cryptanalysts break them.

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