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Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming
- jdp23 16y agoEncoded with a Vigenere cipher ... cool!
- jcsalterego 16y agoNot saying it would take me less time but damn, it took the retired CIA code breaker "several weeks" to solve?
- JCThoughtscream 16y agoFrom the article, it seems as if its breaking was done A. by hand, and B. more as a hobby than anything else. It was explicitly noted that if they had bothered feeding it through a computer, it would've taken "a fraction" of the time.
- defen 16y agoFor maximum fun, you cannot use tools stronger than were available to make the code, to break the code.
- oiuytuikolikuhy 16y agoPresumably somebody is now going to be charged with rape - for releasing classified US army information
- balplaeb 16y agoDOWNVOTED
- Pinckney 16y agoThat would be the CS Army. Very different.
- oiuytuikolikuhy 16y agoIf the secret that they lost got out - wouldn't it harm the morale of US forces from the south? and therefore treason