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Ku Klux Klan Level X

by K. Schmeh, published on 10/14/2010

In 1923, a member of the Ku Klux Klan sent an encrypted telegram to one of his colleagues. This telegram could be preserved. More than 60 years later, the US mathematician Cipher Deavours examined the telegram and was able to decipher it. In 1989, he published some of the details about the solution in the magazine Cryptologia („A Ku Klux Klan Cipher“, edition 3/1989). However, he didn‘t tell the complete solution – the last part was left to the reader as an exercise.