US Cyber Command logo contains coded message

[gillbates]

US Cyber Command logo contains coded message


Agence France-Presse
First Posted 07:03:00 07/09/2010

Filed Under: Internet, Infotech, Government, Military, Security (general)

WASHINGTON -- 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a. That's not garble, it's the coded message inscribed in the logo of the newly created US Cyber Command.

more on link.

Anybody wants to give it a whirl? 

 

[Michael OLeary]

9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a

 

[gillbates]

9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a

Ah, the direct approach. 

Here's a clue: it's an MD5 hash, as stated in the article

 

[Michael OLeary]

Code Cracked! Cyber Command Logo Mystery Solved
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/code-cracked-cyber-command-logos-mystery-solved/

Okay, maybe it wasn’t that much of a mystery. In fact, it took a little more than three hours for Danger Room reader jemelehill  to figure out the odd string of letters and numbers in the logo of the U.S. military’s new Cyber Command. Turns out, it’s the new unit’s mission statement, translated into 32 digits with the md5 cryptographic hash:

    USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.

More at link.

 

[gillbates]

Well done, Mr. O'Leary! In fact,

it took a little more than three hours for Danger Room reader jemelehill  to figure out the odd string of letters and numbers in the logo of the U.S. military’s new Cyber Command.

if jemelehill only knew about this site- http://www.md5decrypter.com/ - it wouldn't have taken him three hours. Try it out: plug in the string 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a into the site, and see what you come up with. Or go to http://www.md5encrypter.com/ and enter the following, without any spaces before or after:

USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.

what all this underscores is how easy it is to crack md5 these days.

 

[niceasdrhuxtable]

Just an MD5 hash? That's kind of a let down. I was hoping it'd be more of a mystery for the ages like Kryptos