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Unlocking history - fascinating. These two quotes in the article seem somehow incongruous: "Simply putting it into a computer and telling the computer to work
by martinclayton 4y ago
Unlocking history - fascinating.
These two quotes in the article seem somehow incongruous:
"Simply putting it into a computer and telling the computer to work it out would literally have taken longer than the history of the universe!"
"Of course by today's standards it is pretty basic."
- twobitshifter 4y agoI think that is using a brute force method of cracking. Even though much of the code is a substitution, the absence of letters, the mixing of symbols with words, and the diacritics would make it hard for a computer to crack. I imagine the brute force computer may run into a case where it can make sense of many of the words using substitution and then plateau without completely cracking it.