This is all very well.
But why tell everyone?
GCHQ: The uncensored story of Britain's most secret intelligence agency
If information indeed is power, then GCHQ is undoubtedly the closest thing the British government has to the Death Star. As the historian Richard J Aldrich notes in the introduction to his excellent new history of the Cheltenham-based agency it represents by far our largest, most expensive, most productive - and yet most secret …
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Look forward to getting this
And winding a couple of my friends up by showing them it.
One advantage of having mates that work for GCHQ :-)
Holiday reading
I don't normally do books, but as it's coming up to summer and there might be a beach with my name on it, why not?
I'll have one of those, please.
ZYXEZ ISROF ENOSI HTYRT
QJXWO NEREH TBOJA ROFYP PLA KO OBEHT DAERT SUJTN ODTUB SNOIT ALUTA RGNOC
What?
57 68 61 74 20 74 68 65 20 63 68 75 66 66 20 69 73 20 68 65 20 6f 6e 20 61 62 6f 75 74 3f
best gues
Best guess is a letter shift of some kind, but with out a starting point its tough to beat
Vonderful!
So, you found ze Enigma machine!
Alan Turing will be reading your message in 2 hours, tops.
but inquiring Yanks want to know...
WTF is "chuff" in this context?
Adam
2 hrs eh, not bad for a guy that died in the 50's......
RE: ZYXEZ
Has anyone managed to decipher this yet? I tried reading it backwards but it has a spleeing erorr.
Mine's the one with 'Cryptography for Dummies' in...
@spleeing errer
Got it. You just needed to alppy (sic) some thought to reconstruct the word breaks.
M is library branch?
I only dimly recall being told K was photorecon, implying they dos some of the US NRO functions.
Of course...
Possession of this book will of course be considered "Possession of information likely to be of use to a terrorist" and get you locked up. (20% chance).
Also using encryption on your machine (add 20% chance)
User of VPN encryption technology (Add 20% chance)
Happen to be a Muslim, then no jury in the country will think you are anything other than a terrorist. Go directly to jail.
Geeks have to be so careful these days.
We know
Christopher Andrew's tome on MI5 is a transparent whitewash. Don't expect revelations.
What a load of tosh
I am not sure this little novel deserves a big chuck up. Has anyone checked the Hansard refs he uses. No, then you ought to. Also, everyone in the business knows trhat UKUSA was signed in March 1946, so how come the learned Prof is 2 years out. Poor, really poor. Anyone in this business would get that basic info correct. Took me a little over 2 hrs in Waterstones to skim and quick read, saw enough inaccuracies NOT to buy.... sorry "Prof"
Visit Bletchley
Any code buff should take the time to visit Bletchley Park at least once. Nice gardens, good country home, and more stories of the war, clever people and their inventions, and thousands of people working in amazing levels of secrecy than you can shake a very large stick at.
Re: ZYXEZ
Start reading from bottom right, its backwards. (Hear that sound? thats Hinsley spinning in his grave).
Facepalm
That would explain why the overnight "bombe" simulation failed to decode it... [/sheepish_grin]
Falepalm icon, sil vous plait, Mlle. Moderatrix
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