[Cryptography] National Navajo Code Talkers Day

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Jerry Leichter wrote:

>> 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,
> 
> One wonders why Navaho, at the time an isolated language spoken by a 
> group of people living in a desert hundreds of miles from the nearest 
> ocean, would have a word for "shark".  :-)

I've wondered the same thing; perhaps they have some pretty big oases?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker and look for "Navajo code 
talkers".

It's on the Internet, so it must be true :-)

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."