The U.S. military’s new Cyber Command is headquartered at Ft. Meade, Maryland, one of the military’s most secretive and secure facilities. Its mission is largely opaque, even inside the armed forces. But the there’s another mystery surrounding the emerging unit. It’s embedded in the Cyber Command logo.

On the logo’s inner gold ring is a code: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a

“It is not just random numbers and does ‘decode’ to something specific,” a Cyber Command source tells Danger Room. “I believe it is specifically detailed in the official heraldry for the unit symbol.”

“While there a few different proposals during the design phase, in the end the choice was obvious and something necessary for every military unit,” the source adds. “The mission.”

With that hint in hand, go crack this code open. E-mail us your best guess, or leave it in the comments below. Our Cyber Command source will confirm the right answer. And the first person to get it gets his/her choice of a Danger Room T-shirt or a ticket to the International Spy Museum.

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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 freedom of action in cyberspace for the U.S. and its allies, and deny the same to adversaries.

Eventually, other commenters figured it out (especially after jemelehill’s solution made it to all the databases of cracked hashes). But that didn’t stop folks from offering their own, shall we say, creative guesses, in order to win one of two coveted prizes: a Danger Room T-shirt or a ticket to the International Spy Museum.

* “If you can read this, send your resume to jobs@nsa.gov.”

* “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

* “If the intelligence community is a family, think of us as the uncle no one talks about.”

* “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”

* “In God We Trust All Others We Monitor”

* “Why do people keep posting the wrong answers when someone solved it like 20 comments ago?”

Yahoo News, the Associated Press, Agence Presse France, Slashdot, El Reg and the websites of the Washington Post and the L.A. Times all joined in the fun. The hubbub even provoked this response from an official Defense Department blog:

I cracked the code, but you can keep my T-shirt. (Wired.com shirts aren’t exactly babe magnets.)

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美國網路司令部網站標章密碼遭破解
國國防部於今年5月正式設立網路司令部（U.S. Cyber Command），由美國國家安全局局長Keith B. Alexander兼任該部門總司令，近來有關該部門最熱烈的議題就是Wired雜誌徵求讀者破解該部門標誌上的密碼。

網路司令部的標誌除了有地球、老鷹、盾牌外，Wired雜誌率先發現該標誌的環狀內緣刻有由32個數字與字母組成的密碼 ─9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a，並在本周徵求讀者破解，獎品為Wired的T恤或國際間諜博物館的入場券，並吸引不少媒體加入號召的行列。

該密碼很快就被破解，它採用的是1991年發明的的訊息摘要算法（message-digest algorithm，MD5），內容為網路司令部的任務聲明：美國網路司令部計畫、協調、整合、同步並處理有關指揮與捍衛國防部資訊網路的行動，而且執行所有軍事網路操作以採取全面行動，確保美國及盟軍在網路上的行動自由並防禦對手。

美國媒體引述網路司令部高層證實了該密碼的確是任務聲明，只是簡單地作為該部門標誌的一部份，並不是什麼秘密，也不是什麼惡作劇或競賽。

該密碼的內容並沒有太大創意，而以密碼表達部門任務聲明則相對有趣許多。使用者也可自網路上搜尋MD5密碼產生器，將所要表達的語言轉譯成密碼，對方則可透過反向查詢工具破解。（編譯/陳曉莉）

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