The Book of Spies
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The Book of Spies
Brian Innes, Bancroft, 1966.
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My Granny gave me this book when I was 9 (1971) and it is still one of my favourites.
My favourite bit has always been pages 40-46:
Code, Ciphers. Secret Ink.
As I love imposing my "childhood traumas" on other people I have my summer school LiveCoders starting
today on a relatively simple coding stack:
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My Granny gave me this book when I was 9 (1971) and it is still one of my favourites.
My favourite bit has always been pages 40-46:
Code, Ciphers. Secret Ink.
As I love imposing my "childhood traumas" on other people I have my summer school LiveCoders starting
today on a relatively simple coding stack:
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Re: The Book of Spies
The ENCODE button has MY code in it [the children did NOT get that], but the DECODE button is empty at the moment.
The children were given a print out:
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and the FUNCTIONALITY of the encoding was demonstrated by performing an encode with a paper and pencil.
The children were given a print out:
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and the FUNCTIONALITY of the encoding was demonstrated by performing an encode with a paper and pencil.
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Re: The Book of Spies
I am probably going senile as I have no memory of ever having seen
put the number of items before.
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Re: The Book of Spies
Oddly enough, this children's book, is on a counter-intelligence reading list:
https://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/readlist.pdf
in the section for World War II.
https://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/readlist.pdf
in the section for World War II.
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Re: The Book of Spies
Oh, "sugar", a 14 year old girl put me straight when I was using contains instead of = for decoding.
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Re: The Book of Spies
Experts will see periodicity in this sort of code relatively quickly.
[Well, my Mum, an ex-coder cracker, at 92 took 30 minutes to see the periodicity,
and a further hour with a pencil and paper to crack it.]
However, if one sets this up with 5 or 6 levels of codewords . . .
[Well, my Mum, an ex-coder cracker, at 92 took 30 minutes to see the periodicity,
and a further hour with a pencil and paper to crack it.]
However, if one sets this up with 5 or 6 levels of codewords . . .
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Re: The Book of Spies
It certainly beats the Cr . . . . out of Conan Doyle's dancing men:
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Re: The Book of Spies
Beastly homework: how to deal with this in LiveCode:
i.e. DO NOT recreate this in a scrolling list field.
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Probably NOT a case of 'Roll Over Beethoven', but quite possibly a case of 'Roll Over Twenty-Six.'
i.e. DO NOT recreate this in a scrolling list field.
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Probably NOT a case of 'Roll Over Beethoven', but quite possibly a case of 'Roll Over Twenty-Six.'
