[lit-ideas] Re: The Code Breaker

 
 
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.



 
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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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