yes, i was... and you know what they say about assumptions
Posted on 11/23/2012 1:31:55 AM PST by Winniesboy
Historians from GCHQ are appealing for the veteran codebreakers of Bletchley Park to volunteer for one last act of service for their country: cracking the D-Day carrier pigeon cipher that has stumped Britain's finest minds.
The coded message had been carefully filed in a small red capsule and attached to a carrier pigeon to be delivered 70 years ago.
But instead of arriving safely at its destination, the unfortunate bird got stuck in a chimney en-route and lost.
The message was found earlier this month by homeowner David Martin, who ripped out a fireplace to find the skeleton while renovating his house in Bletchingley, Surrey.
Historians believe the bird was almost certainly dispatched from Nazi-occupied France during the D-Day invasions.
The mysterious message, which was written in unfamiliar code, was passed to Government Communications Headquarter (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, Glos, in the hope a contemporary professional codebreaker could decipher the words.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
From the history of the VENONA project, for example, some of the same OTP pages were used multiple times.
Bad things when that happens.
From the history of the VENONA project, for example, some of the same OTP pages were used multiple times.
Bad things when that happens.
yes, i was... and you know what they say about assumptions
Whistle while you work
Hitler was a jerk
Mussolini bit his wienie
Now it doesn’t work
Wow! I just finished watching this. Wonderful. Thanks for posting.
>>if it was from a one-time pad, good luck...
Exactly. A one time pad is not decipherable. Anyone can use a simple Bingo device to encrypt text in such a way that it’s indistinguishable from random text, regardless of the size of the computer trying to break it.... even if quantum computing were fully possible and utilized.
blesse mon coeur d’une langueur monotone
All your base are belong to us.
yup, and as jamaksin mentioned, even IF it had been used before, what are the chances of a message from the same cypher still existing? if i had to guess, i'd say none...
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A wet duck never flies at night.
If you account for slight misspelling, it seems to read:
Zzfptxgksplt flgmrxndv jrlsgddmrx NOW!
“What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”
Yep,it would. Oops.
Don’t you people realize the gravity of this situation? If we don’t decode this message, this could mean we will lose the war!
Could be a one-write which is arguably impossible to break. And ignore the spacing.
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