Talk:Joseph Rochefort

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This article is now displaying in both a sans serif font and, interspersed with it, a typewriter face font. The difference doesn't seem to consistently be related to recent edits, and is generally odd. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what's going on? The browser doing this is IE 5.00.3502.1000 and until this article it had been displaying WP content satisfactorily. Ideas? ww 18:20, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I think it was the ">" and "<"'s looking like a <code> tag; I think Snoyes' edit fixed this. — Matt 18:30, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thomas Dyer

This article links to the wrong Thomas Dyer (quite evident if you follow the link). I don't know how to fix this...perhaps someone else can?

I've gone and disambiguated it, although I don't think we yet have an article on the cryptanalyst. — Matt Crypto 23:56, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Atribution

Parts of this page are verbatim from the NSA's web site, http://www.nsa.gov/honor/honor00025.cfm. Shouldn't this be noted on the page? --Tms 19:34, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, probably. We're allowed to use their text freely (it's public domain, being a work of the US government), and the origin is in the page history, but I've added a note at the bottom. — Matt Crypto 22:57, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Which is correct?

The article credits two different men with identifying Midway as the target.

• Fifth paragraph -- "It was one of the Station HYPO staff, Jasper Holmes, who had the idea of faking a water supply failure on Midway Island with a cleartext emergency warning, provoking Japanese JN-25 traffic on the subject, thus testing whether Midway was a target or not. The Japanese took the bait and broadcast instructions for additional water desalinization equipment to be loaded for the code group for the major attack point, thus confirming a Midway attack."

• Two paragraphs on -- "An ingenious suggestion by Rochefort, gave Admiral Nimitz confirmation of AF's identity."

Which is accurate? Moriori 03:23, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Good catch. Jasper's book, Double-Edged Secrets, implies the idea was his, & I've heard him credited with it. It would've gone to Joe, & from him to Layton (Fleet intel officer), & from Layton to Nimitz. If somebody can confirm Jasper originated the idea (I haven't read Layton's book), this might help clear it up.

Also, how solid is the use of compromised cypher? Jasper implies it was en clair (which I simply can't believe).

On another note, can somebody name the "Midway base commander"? I'd say he deserves a credit... Trekphiler 06:19, 12 November 2006 (UTC)