[Cryptography] National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sun Aug 13 18:52:01 EDT 2017
Today is National Navajo Code Talkers Day; it was used for crypto comms in
WW-2, as only a few tribes could speak it. There were no words for modern
objects, so "shark" was used for "destroyer" etc, thereby obfuscating it
further, and clipped phrases meant untrained speakers would not understand
it.
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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