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Libertas:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/anyone-crack-pigeons-wartime-code-125411737.html

If it is a one-time day pad cypher it will be virtually impossible to crack, even given enough supercomputer time you may come up with so many versions of what it could be that the real message will never be known.  Pretty cool find though, nothing like a real mystery to fire the imagination.

AlanS:

--- Quote ---He added: "It is a tribute to the skills of the wartime code-makers that, despite working under severe pressure, they devised a code that was undecipherable both then and now."
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Sometimes newer isn't always better.


--- Quote ---The Curator of the Pigeon Museum at Bletchley Park, north of London, ............
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They actually have a museum set up for pigeons? No wonder the Brits are in a bind.

Glock32:
In its day Bletchley Park housed the greatest mathematical minds in the world. Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, was among them. Fascinating stuff.

Sectionhand:
It's a recipe for squab .

Pandora:

--- Quote from: Sectionhand on November 27, 2012, 03:21:25 PM ---It's a recipe for squab .

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 ::rolllaughing::

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