HFQ Official Snippet #26 (I think)

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."

Gunny wrote:

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."

For what it is worth, when BGV got permission to launch his current campaign. IIRC, he received it encrepted via semaphore. It was a code designed to be used only once after which the pages in the codebook were destroyed. That would complicate decoding it should it be subject to 3rd party interdiction, I would think.

Don

Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliograph the projector is a simple mirror, but shutters to flash Morse code by manipulating a handle at the side is used to flash the message. A lamp and mirror can be used to send messages at night.

Poker

EdThomas wrote:Leaving the world of codes for a moment.
How does a holographic projector work? Please restrict answers to words with no more than eight syllables.
Thanks

pokermind wrote:Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliograph

Thanks Poker, but I was looking for Holo , not helio. Anyway, I took your advice and visited Wiki. The first article I looked at was on holography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography. This took a little concentrating but made sense to this old brain.
the second article on "Holographic principle" was way beyond me. We're talking string theory, quantum gravity some pretty heavy stuff. Enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle.

The holographic principle is a horse of a very different color from holographic projection. Assuming it is a horse, and not a unicorn. Or maybe a rhinoceros. Of course, it could be a hippopotamus - in which case, it is definitely not an elephant...

::louis r wanders off singing "Mud! Mud! Glorious mud!"::

EdThomas wrote:

pokermind wrote:Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliograph

Thanks Poker, but I was looking for Holo , not helio. Anyway, I took your advice and visited Wiki. The first article I looked at was on holography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography. This took a little concentrating but made sense to this old brain.
the second article was on "Holographic principle" was way beyond me. We're talking string theory, quantum gravity some pretty heavy stuff. Enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle.

hand-
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there you go - only 4 syllables

EdThomas wrote:Leaving the world of codes for a moment.
How does a holographic projector work? Please restrict answers to words with no more than eight syllables.
Thanks

Louis R wrote:hand-
wa-
vi-
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there you go - only 4 syllables

FM -- only two syllables and closer to accurate.

FM==F'ing Magic

Gunny wrote:

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."

I'm pretty sure Duchairn sends and gets reports more detailed than that over the Semaphore.