Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH at 426 KHz and Shortwave
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Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH at 426 KHz and Shortwave
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#2Super cool, like a defcon cipher puzzle over the air.. except they give you the cipher? And the code book? What am I missing, where's the challenge ?
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Re: Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH at 426 KHz and Shortwave
#4Super cool, like a defcon cipher puzzle over the air.. except they give you the cipher? And the code book? What am I missing, where's the challenge ?
It's not a code breaking challenge I think - it's more a roleplay an enigma operator game with awards for being first operator to complete the task and reveal the message.
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#5Super cool, like a defcon cipher puzzle over the air.. except they give you the cipher? And the code book? What am I missing, where's the challenge ?
Their license may prohibit encrypted transmissions. If you publicize the key, it’s just an encoding.
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#6Headline made me think it was some new crypto-bro "invention" involving shortwave radio. Sorry for the word "crypto" that its meaning has been corrupted...
Re: Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH at 426 KHz and Shortwave
#7Headline made me think it was some new crypto-bro "invention" involving shortwave radio. Sorry for the word "crypto" that its meaning has been corrupted...
Sigh...yes. I have had to resort to saying "cryptography, as in encryption", because if someone says "he's a crypto SME" there's That Guy (virtually always a guy) who wants to hijack whatever is going on to harrass me as to why are we such Luddites that we aren't telling our regulators to pound sand and jump in feet first to whatever the latest Pons...err...sure bet coin opportunity is. "Probably the potential jail time" isn't a deterrent.
Re: Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH at 426 KHz and Shortwave
#8Super cool, like a defcon cipher puzzle over the air.. except they give you the cipher? And the code book? What am I missing, where's the challenge ?
Their license may prohibit encrypted transmissions. If you publicize the key, it’s just an encoding.
Certainly true for K6KPH on amateur radio frequencies. I wonder if the same is true for commercial circuits on KPH and KFS?
Your comment on licensing got me wondering... I wonder what license the operators for KPH and KFS have these days? I guess there is some kind of general commercial radio operator's license now. Long ago, I started studying for a commercial radiotelegraph operator's license, just for the novelty. I got distracted, and then years later when I got interested again I found out that the FCC wasn't giving out commercial telegraph licenses any more.
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#9Wow! I just went to KPH a few months ago. Beautiful surreal place. Looked abandoned from the outside and the doors were locked. Super excited to see this working.
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#10I got a chance to try out a real Enigma machine many years ago at an after-hours museum event outside Ottawa at the Diefenbunker. Very cool!
It inspired me to make a coding puzzle incorporating the cipher, as well as punch cards for fun. If I manage to dig it up I'll post it.