[Cryptography] What is the difference between a code and a cipher?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Sep 5 00:32:16 EDT 2014


On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Bill Frantz wrote:

> The ham radio "Q" codes perform this role and have the added advantage 
> of allowing people who do not speak a common language to communicate. 
> For example, QTH? means, "What it your location?"

And some of those Q codes can be *really* obscure, such as something like 
"Shall I hoist a windsock to indicate in which direction you ought to 
land?" etc.

-- Dave (vk2kfu)


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