Tonto Silerheels wrote:EdThomas wrote:
This is so fiendishly clever I'm proposing Lyonheart for the Totally Unexpected Weapon of the Book Award.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but I don't think it would work. The Church of God Awaiting has been using codes, pass phrases, and cyphers for so long, that I very much doubt that an enemy can duplicate the necessary encoded message to convince the recipients that it's genuine.
~Tonto
That's just about the attitude that the Germans had about using the Enigma machine, and the Japanese about the JN25 code.
And by now the good guys, backed up with considerable computer power should have numerous messages to use to determine their protocols. And quite likely you don't have to change much. You get in a message saying "we need food" and you change only one word: "we have food."