Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the 'world's top unsolved messages'

For a decade, cryptology fans had been trying to solve something called the "Silk Dress cryptogram." Earlier this year, a Winnipeg academic figured it out.

Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the 'world's top unsolved messages'
Univeristy of Manitoba research computer analyst Wayne Chan holds a copy of the Silk Dress cryptogram.

For a decade, cryptology fans had been trying to solve something called the "Silk Dress cryptogram." Earlier this year, a Winnipeg academic figured it out.