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U.S. Army Guide to Code Breaking
sebFlyte writes "From the introduction of this document, the U.S. Army's field manual guide to Cryptanalysis: 'This manual presents the basic principles and techniques of cryptanalysts and their relation to cryptography. Cryptanalytics is the art and science of solving unknown codes and ciphers.'"
they found the cryptonomicon
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
...you know what they say about "military intelligence".
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Trolling is a art,
A sneak peek at chapter 7:
Solution of polygraphic substitution systems polyalphabetic substitution systems
and that's just the title. Pack a lunch for this one...
"As the intrepid kobold companion continues his journey, he begins to wonder... if priests raises dead, why anybody die?
Let's set them loose on Bill Gate's Doodle. It's worth an $800,000 Pentagon contract, init?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Ejp fprdmy lmpe jpe yp ntrsl vpfrd?
If it moves, shoot it.
If it doesn't move, pick it up.
If you can't pick it up, paint it.
Unknown host pong.
speaking from experiance of a military individual.. Army Cryptographers don't even read this manual ;)
so people that find the ASVAB challenging are supposed to read and understand this? I sure hope there are some civilians in the mix somewhere.
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the title of the book is encrypted anyways. Don't expect that the military intelligence will be able to break _that_
Wait... Military intelligence?!?
Your head a splode
Step 1. Build a quantum factoring computer
But seriously, how much good is a field manual going to do you when its possible for handheld computers to encrypt data to such a strong degree that it's theoretically impossible to decrypt with any likelihood of success that's indistinguishable from zero in the lifetime of the universe?
I mean even if the guys at the NSA use different theories from the rest of us, I can only imagine that the methods they use still require vast amounts of hardware...
Um, quantum computers just aren't possible. So stop thinkinging about them. Now, creating a universe whose primary purpose is to decrypt messages turns out to be fairly easy. The trick is to make the trillions of years of that unvierse pass for microseconds in this one. Who needs quatum computers.
Some one is knocking on the door. Let me go check to see who it is...
A couple of hot hookers and a lot of booze.
In GOD we trust, all others we monitor.
hey, I didn't know Taco was Welsh!
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
The rule of thumb we used for FOUO was "Don't keep it in plain sight and don't tell anyone you have it, but if someone asks specifically for it, you can show it."
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If it moves, fuck it or kill it.
If it doesn't move, it's not your problem. Let the army deal with it...
If you use a ROT-13 bookmarklet (google for it, maybe at E2), you will find that the parent is correct.
;-)
Does anyone else find it funny that the army includes a table of the probability of english letters, i.e. di-and trigraphs in the document? What are they planning on, war with the British
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.