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The official website of the Code Talkers. It gives a description of the code used and stories of the remaining Navajos.

The Government Communications Headquarters in the UK offered a job application to anyone who could solve their code found at www.canyoucrackit.co.uk

Britain's code-breakers acknowledged Friday that an encrypted handwritten message from World War II, found on the leg of a long-dead carrier pigeon in a household chimney in southern England, has thwarted all their efforts to decode it since it was sent to them last month.

We read this for a paper in another class, thought it was interesting!

This is a website introducing codes and ciphers in WW II by Tony Sale. Given this specific war context, is there really a guideline of what an action is ethical and what is not in terms of cryptoanalysis? Would an action be ethical whenever the majority's well-being is satisfied, or there's a line that should not be crossed?

"The remains of a World War Two carrier pigeon which was lost in action 70 years ago while delivering a top secret message over enemy lines has been found in a chimney in Bletchingley, Surrey. The skeleton of the bird has a small red cylinder attached to its foot which contains a mysterious cigarette paper sized coded message. The message is deemed so sensitive, that Codebreakers at GCHQ in Cheltenham are now frantically trying to decipher it."

Continuation of a story I posted a while ago. Britain's top code-breakers say they are stumped by a secret code found on the leg of a dead pigeon. .

The "uncrackable codes" made by exploiting the branch of physics called quantum mechanics no longer require the use of special "dark fibres" and have been sent down kilometres of standard broadband fibre.

JN-25: code used during and slightly before world war II

An interesting account of how technology can now help "crack" codes which were once thought to be impervious.

"Around sixty Bletchley Park veterans gathered again at the Home of the Codebreakers on Sunday 2nd September, for the annual Enigma Reunion. The event is timed each year to coincide with the anniversary of the arrival of the first codebreakers at Bletchley Park, after they received the coded message 'Auntie Flo is not so well', indicating they should report for top secret duties."

Hidden messages? Check. Cheating? Check. Seems on-topic for this course!

Check out this code-breaking challenge from the UK's Science Museum.