[Cryptography] Historic Codebreaking.

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Wed Jan 23 22:25:13 EST 2019


Abe Singer <abe at oyvay.nu> writes:

>On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:05:54AM +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> Given that it produces translated sentences like "abandon, suffering, inform,
>> agreeably, their, out, dew, unites, below, for, nourishing, tool" and
>> "turning, hurt, healing, from, turn, fortune, it goes, tame, from,
>> nourishment, from, mothers, it is, things-fluid, for, holy, more, acquire,
>> from", I'm going to go for the "every few months" answer.
>
>Perhaps Voynich was the first beat poet?

More likely a medieval Diceware passphrase generator.

Peter.


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