Cracking the Code in the US CyberCommand’s Logo

The logo was front and center on Drudge today and several people have been interested in the Hexadecimal code that rings the logo. It didn’t take long for Panda Labs to crack the code:

From PandaLabs here:

The characters around the seal appear to be an MD5 hash value of 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A

So, what does this hash value represent? Many have suggested that it is the following QR code (below), which translates to “Poder Cibernetico”. (Latin for Cyber Power)

Instead, if we take the CYBERCOM mission statement and calculate the MD5 hash value for the text, we arrive at the same hash on the seal.

CYBERCOM Mission Statement: “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 US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.”

Aww, clever, yet boring. You gotta be awfully proud of a mission statement to hash it and use it in your seal.