I think the beauty of Navajo for that purpose was that it was never
written down anywhere. No phrase books or dictionary so you couldn't
even attempt to learn it.
I wonder what other obscure languages could be used for that purpose.
Why not make up a language, like Tolkeen's Elvish or Klingon. Except
don't document it anywhere.
Trying to wrap my head around the difference between a foreign language
and a complex cypher.
I wonder if modern technology could crack that. If they were speaking
all day about other things, they're providing a large corpus of data.
....though I suppose if software could translate a language then we
would have translated the Voynich manuscript by now.
On 11/19/2015 2:20 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
About 30 years ago I worked with a guy whose wife’s grandfather was a
code talker. I had never hear of them before.
The code talkers all knew each other and in most cases came from the
same tribe/area area. Drove the Japanese crazy. All day long they
were visiting in Navajo about the cousins back home and then
seamlessly insert a code phrase. For words that were not Navajo they
use a phonetic alphabet but used Navajo words, so B would be the
Navajo word for Bear etc. Then back to speculating if cousin Jimmy is
still drinking.
I wonder if they even figured out what language it was in.
*From:* Jaime Solorza <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2015 12:14 PM
*To:* Animal Farm <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] How about this
I could send messages in Spanish that Gino Ken Chuck and others on
list would have trouble deciphering... Hell my English is bad
enough...trucha pasa en hable
On Nov 19, 2015 12:08 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Pretty easy to use code phrases or code on a clear channel. One
time book codes cannot be broken.
*From:* Josh Luthman <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2015 12:06 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] How about this
Did you hear that the attacks were coordinated over UNecncrypted SMS?
Josh Luthman
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Reading about taking down encrypted channels on twitter that
may be terrorism related.
Tough nut to crack.
How about you can send encrypted all you want, provided the
sender and receiver identities are in the clear.
How much would that offend our libertarian sensibilities?
