[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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