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Re: Entropy of other languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Feb 7 21:09:29 2007
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:53:16 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20070207184430.GV28618@binky.Central.Sun.COM>
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:44:30 -0600
Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mayan.htm
>
An interesting web site, which also contains the following
crypto-relevant statement:
Speakers of such Native American languages as Navajo, Choctaw
and Cheyenne served as radio operators, know as Code Talkers,
to keep communications secret during both World Wars. Welsh
speakers played a similar role during the Bosnian War.
Does anyone know anything more about this use of Welsh?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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