National Cipher Challenge

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Congratulations to Year 12 students Egemen and Gautham who have both been invited to attend the National Cipher Challenge prize giving at Bletchley Park on Wednesday 4 March.

The National Cipher Challenge is an annual, free-to-enter online competition run by the University of Southampton, which challenges school students to break increasingly difficult codes and ciphers.

Running for 10-12 weeks in the autumn, teams or individuals solve two encrypted messages per week, with challenges increasing in difficulty from basic substitution to complex, modern encryption techniques.

The competition uses a story-driven format, often linked to historical events, and aims to foster an interest among young people in mathematics, computing, and cybersecurity.

Prizes are awarded to the top performers at Bletchley Park - the top-secret central site of Allied codebreaking during World War II.

Congratulations to Egemen and Gautham for demonstrating such impressive codebreaking skills!