Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming

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by edw519 • 16 years ago

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jdp23• 16 years ago

Encoded with a Vigenere cipher ... cool!

jcsalterego• 16 years ago

Not saying it would take me less time but damn, it took the retired CIA code breaker "several weeks" to solve?

JCThoughtscream• 16 years ago

From 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.

oiuytuikolikuhy2• 16 years ago

Presumably somebody is now going to be charged with rape - for releasing classified US army information

balplaeb• 16 years ago

DOWNVOTED

Pinckney• 16 years ago

That would be the CS Army. Very different.

oiuytuikolikuhy2• 16 years ago

If the secret that they lost got out - wouldn't it harm the morale of US forces from the south?

and therefore treason

Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming

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