[lit-ideas] Re: The Code Breaker
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:32:00 EDT
In a message dated 9/29/2004 9:08:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
teme17@xxxxxxxxx writes:
He
> wasn't only a code-breaker, JL! But he did crack
> the Enigma Code,
> yes.
----
I was wondering if The Enigma compared to Geary's message to Erin:
--- begin quoted text:
dk dkhhbn 4 55^%K -- KM -- dedkh, liisnncty'h. 7389h!! Xnmntebid;
m7739823, ##98dl; lqqq.Und2? : )
377, 7238946=>nndq aoein b shlllms, tw, pqhhs.
*/\/\/\/MW\/\/\/\*
Mempis
--- end quoted text
-- which Julie said called for a serious deconstructionist.
It seems to me, and Turing knew that, that the first step is to replace any
letter _by another_:
dk dkhhbn 4 55^%K -- KM -- dedkh, liisnncty'h. 7389h!! Xnmntebid;
m7739823, ##98dl; lqqq.Und2? : )
377, 7238946=>nndq aoein b shlllms, tw, pqhhs.
*/\/\/\/MW\/\/\/\*
Mempis
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Rule 2 is to replace the _same_ letter by the same other (every 'd' for a
'p') say. But there is an exception to this. Perhaps on some collocations, the
'd' becomes a 'g', for example.
All in all, the art of code-breaking (and the enigma) is a fascinating one,
and I wonder where Turing learned to much about it (somewhere in the Home
Counties, I understand).
Hodges's book was turned into a play with Derek Jacobi playing Turing.
Cheers,
JL
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