Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Interestingly, as an aside, if you supply fixed RANDOMISE values
beforehand, IIRC it would generate the same sequence of random numbers.
It does.
Text encryption is of course possible by translating the text to a
minority language such as Welsh to render it unreadable to the majority,
Like Welsh road signs then? :-)
I'm sure I've read somewhere about the USA and allies using native
> American languages in WW2 to achieve the same thing, to send
> intelligence data, for example.
If I remember correctly it was Mohawk Indians troops who have their own
language that apparently is very difficult to translate. These troops
were used to send data back to their own 'bretheren' and it was
translated by them into English. It was unbroken.
Cheers,
Norman.
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