[RTTY] Bletchley Park (WWII Code Centre) Collosus code breaking event

Kok Chen chen at mac.com
Wed Oct 10 14:40:04 EDT 2007


On Oct 10, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Carter, K8VT wrote:

> 1) Build  and de-bug a "six tone" RTTY decoder (what ever that may be)
> by Nov 15
> 2) Hope propagation is good and that there is no QRM during the
> transmission..
> 3) Come up with an unobtainium Lorenz cipher machine
> 4) Decode the message.

Didn't Alan Turing do all of the above?  And with the added pressure  
that the world would blow up around him if he didn't succeed.

Anybody knows if they intend to publish a WAV file of the transmission?

73
Chen, W7AY


(By the way Carter, re item 3, the BASIC code for the Lorenz  
algorithm appears to be on their web site.  You still need to guess  
the various (for a very large "various") permutations of the two keys.)




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