A 13-year-old teenager solved a cryptographic puzzle of the British government communications headquarters.

On September 11 of this year, the Government Communications Headquarters (Government Communications Headquarters) of the United Kingdom published on its website a message offering everyone to crack an encrypted message created by cryptographic experts. The task and answer options were published on a specially created Can You Find It website, and 100 Raspberry Pi and 5 Google Nexus tablets were promised as prizes for the winners. A peculiar charm to the competition was added by the fact that GCHQ is known for its close collaboration with the British secret service MI5 and intelligence MI6.

Suddenly it turned out that the 13-year-old Iraqi teenager Ayman Kampoori, who is in the 9th grade of Al Khubairat school, became one of the winners of the competition - the solution of the proposed problem took him three weeks.


The winner says:

Decoding and programming is my favorite hobby. I develop iPhone applications and then use them on my phone ... When I get older, I want to learn computer hardware or programming. I also think that when I am 18 years old, I will again take part in the GCHQ competition and will work there further.

Details on the cipher or decryption method are traditionally not reported in such cases, apart from the fact that Ayman used the well-known mathematical package Mathematica for his work.
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