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Wanted for one last mission: call for Bletchley Park codebreakers to crack the D-Day pigeon cipher
Daily Telegraph (London)_ ^
| Nov 23 2012
| Hannah Furness
Posted on 11/23/2012 1:31:55 AM PST by Winniesboy
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To: Chode
Of course you are assuming that the OTP system is being correctly used.
From the history of the VENONA project, for example, some of the same OTP pages were used multiple times.
Bad things when that happens.
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posted on
11/23/2012 6:52:54 AM PST
by
jamaksin
To: Chode
Of course you are assuming that the OTP system is being correctly used.
From the history of the VENONA project, for example, some of the same OTP pages were used multiple times.
Bad things when that happens.
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posted on
11/23/2012 6:53:13 AM PST
by
jamaksin
To: jamaksin
yes, i was... and you know what they say about assumptions
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posted on
11/23/2012 7:03:06 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Winniesboy
Whistle while you work
Hitler was a jerk
Mussolini bit his wienie
Now it doesn’t work
To: Bobalu
Wow! I just finished watching this. Wonderful. Thanks for posting.
To: Chode
>>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.
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posted on
11/23/2012 7:32:36 AM PST
by
RingerSIX
(My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
To: TADSLOS
blesse mon coeur d’une langueur monotone
To: Winniesboy
All your base are belong to us.
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posted on
11/23/2012 8:18:05 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
To: RingerSIX
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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posted on
11/23/2012 8:20:45 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Winniesboy
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posted on
11/23/2012 8:25:05 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth....RWR 8-)
To: olezip
A wet duck never flies at night.
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posted on
11/23/2012 11:21:20 AM PST
by
DPMD
To: Lmo56
If you account for slight misspelling, it seems to read:
Zzfptxgksplt flgmrxndv jrlsgddmrx NOW!
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posted on
11/23/2012 11:23:03 AM PST
by
DPMD
To: Winniesboy
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posted on
11/23/2012 11:25:28 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: DeaconRed
“What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”
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posted on
11/23/2012 11:44:02 AM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
To: jamaksin
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posted on
11/23/2012 12:56:00 PM PST
by
moose07
(The truth will out, one day.)
To: Winniesboy
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!
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posted on
11/24/2012 12:13:19 AM PST
by
lowbridge
(Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
To: olezip
Could be a one-write which is arguably impossible to break. And ignore the spacing.
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posted on
11/24/2012 12:26:17 AM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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