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Codes and Codebreaking - Fun Facts

KILLERS versus CODE Programmers!?!

August 20th 2007 00:40
Could you pick out a serial killer from a computer language inventor/programmer?
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Can you pick the difference between a slasher and a slash-dotter?

Try your hand at this website and see how you fare?
Click HERE for "Programming Language Inventor OR Serial Killer?"
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The First Person To Gamble & BREAK The Bank!

May 18th 2007 00:20
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Gambling at casinos, they say the house always wins, but has it always?

The very first person to 'break the bank' was a British engineer while visiting a Monte Carlo casino back in 1873.
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Code Word Puzzle

September 24th 2006 00:03
During WWII while the Allied Forces were planning the Normandy invasion, a security panic occurred when Mr. Dawe, an ordinary physics teacher living in a small English town became caught up in a 1 in a million coincidence.

Mr Dawe had for more than 20 years, been compiling the crossword puzzles for the Daily Telegraph.
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A bluffer's guide to cryptanalysis

July 17th 2006 03:58
Today's post is a follow up from my previous post and is a bluffer's guide to cryptanalysis (or codebreaking). Once again it is going to be quite short, so if you want any more detail then feel free to request it.

What is cryptanalysis?
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A bluffers guide to cryptography

July 13th 2006 03:58
Today's post is going to be a bluffer's guide to cryptography. It will be a little shorter then my last few posts, so if you want to know more then please feel free to ask me to write another post on it.

What is cryptography?
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Quantum Computing and Codebreaking

June 27th 2006 02:43
It is often claimed that quantum computing would render many of todays methods of encryptions useless. This article is going to briefly explore why:

Speed and codebreaking
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