London school wins national code breaking challenge

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http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2238116/london-school-wins-national-code-breaking-challenge

By Rosalie Marshall
V3.co.uk
22 Jan 2013

Pupils from the City of London School have been revealed as the winners of the 
National Cipher Challenge, a code-breaking competition that attracted 6,268 
schoolchildren to participate.

The challenge, launched in 725 schools across the country, was run by 
Southampton University in partnership with the Government Communications 
Headquarters (GCHQ), IBM and Trinity College.

The two-month competition required students to break codes of increasing 
complexity. Although 1,600 teams signed up to the challenge, only 30 manage to 
complete every task.

The City of London pupils cracked the final challenge in 44 hours 20 minutes 
and won the GCHQ prize of £1,000.

Raspberry Pi computers were given to 50 members of the top 17 teams.

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