"....thanks, it werk, it got the snot goo out of my morning eyes"
Drink....Your....Ovaltine.
Can’t help you with the code, but wanted to express my $.02 on how great a book that is. Also the trilogy by him: The Baroque Cycle. Not an easy read, but a truly masterful opus.
“The internet, where the men are real men, the women are real men, and the children are the FBI.”
Is the third glyph the letter “E” ?
Bletchley Park Tour [documentary in full]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEHcJ7CCzg
This is a video made by someone who works at Bletchley.
It’s hard to break even a simple code when there is no real payoff and not a large enough collection of encrypted samples.
The reason Enigma was broken is a combination of brilliant code breakers and a really stupid error in Enigma’s design.
The flaw is the fact that no character would ever be encoded as itself. i.e. A in plain text would never be A in the encoded text... This was a really dumb mistake :-) Just the sort of thing a genius like Turing could use to crack the system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_Q9FoD-oQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8
Is this that carrier pigeon message from WW II again?
“The German tanks are closing in! We are out of ammo! Having a wonderful time here in France and wish you were here. Corporal Smithers”
How dare you use that language in front of my wife, you churlish cad!
I have deposited in the county of Bedford, about four miles from Buford’s, in an excavation or vault, six feet below the surface of the ground, the following articles, belonging jointly to the parties whose names are given in number three, herewith: The first deposit consisted of ten hundred and fourteen pounds of gold, and thirty-eight hundred and twelve pounds of silver, deposited Nov. eighteen nineteen. The second was made Dec. eighteen twenty-one, and consisted of nineteen hundred and seven pounds of gold, and twelve hundred and eighty-eight of silver; also jewels, obtained in St. Louis in exchange for silver to save transportation, and valued at thirteen thousand dollars. The above is securely packed in iron pots, with iron covers. The vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid stone, and are covered with others. Paper number one describes the exact locality of the vault, so that no difficulty will be had in finding it.
I guess I need to buy a much larger monitor.
It breaks: “America cannot compete with China, all your factories belong to us.”
I was thinking the characters were distinguished by a count of the blocks in a corner or corner and end position, or a total count (with a -5 or so adjustment)
But don’t have time to go further...
I like it