Al Qaeda crypto reportedly fails the test

[Ian Grigg]

Steve Furlong wrote:

>>   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3528502.stm

> Bah. They were probably Word documents with the "password required"
> option turned on.

Read about one of their coding systems here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jihad13chap1.html

And, FWIW, my commentary:

http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000119.html

iang

[Moderator's Note: One wonders if the document on the "Smoking Gun"
website is even remotely real. It is amazingly amateurish -- the sort
of code practices that were obsolete before the Second World War. --Perry]
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