Talk:Code (cryptography)

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[edit] Maths calendar

Well, even the most prestigious... The 2005 Mathematics Calendar discusses (briefly) the 'Enigma code'. It may be that all the chemicals in the water has caused brain damage to the neural circuits responsible for undertanding such arcana. ww 20:00, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hmm...outside of technical discussions about cryptography, I don't really see a problem with the way "code" gets used when referring to a "cipher"; this really is just a difference between the meaning of the word in general use compared to the meaning in specialist discussions. This occurs with "hacker" -- which, to most people, has the meaning of people who break into computers and so forth; technical people, though, often distinguish between "hacker" and "cracker". Because of this general/technical difference, even David Kahn is happy to be lax about usage, e.g., his book: "Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes" — Matt 20:28, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Doesnt anyone think that if the germans had

a) not repeated the message code for their Enigma machines b) been less regular with their specific message timings and c) had not been lazy and had chosen completely random message keys that didn't correspond to the keyboard,

then the enigma's code would have been impossible to crack?-Will de Renzy-Martin 16:03 5 October 2006

[edit] CODE

anyone who cracks this code correctly is a genious, and also quite sad: 222614761124222016632014191726103152515726781727716182521231913146122458239121761762113192021262124110161022189 9131212208312411155174416234181322231024131772216186181414237112372116132211144482219211485122361164625111712622 217191391814712114712209114143124192531522811192211222022424101642323713823192481086124613187662261722221151431 991420269620216