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Topics => History => Topic started by: Libertas on November 24, 2012, 12:35:50 PM

Title: I like stories like this
Post by: Libertas on November 24, 2012, 12:35:50 PM

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

Title: Re: I like stories like this
Post by: AlanS on November 24, 2012, 01:20:24 PM

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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."

Sometimes newer isn't always better.

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The Curator of the Pigeon Museum at Bletchley Park, north of London, ............

They actually have a museum set up for pigeons? No wonder the Brits are in a bind.

Title: Re: I like stories like this
Post by: Glock32 on November 27, 2012, 11:00:34 AM

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.

Title: Re: I like stories like this
Post by: Sectionhand on November 27, 2012, 03:21:25 PM

It's a recipe for squab .

Title: Re: I like stories like this
Post by: Pandora on November 27, 2012, 08:38:09 PM

Quote from: Sectionhand on November 27, 2012, 03:21:25 PM

It's a recipe for squab .

 ::rolllaughing::