Hagen Koch [technical draftsman & GDR Musterknabe or poster boy/model child]: Chapters 16, 17, 18, 2nd ½ of 26…
Arlington Hall’s Venona breakthrough in 1943-1946 was purely an analytic accomplishment, which was achieved without the benefit of either Soviet codebooks or plain-text copies of the original messages (Phillips). The messages were recovered over a period of years and were decoded from a “codebook” that crypto-linguist Meredith Gardner, reconstructed by the use of classic code breaking techniques. It should be known that the security of the encoding and decoding system used by the Soviet’s heavily depended on the randomness/unpredictability of the “key” and how…
Philip Johnston, a former missionary’s son who once lived on the Navajo Reservation was responsible for recruiting the Navajos. Knowing the complex phases and intricate tonal qualities of the native language. His plan was to devise a code utilizing the complex unwritten language of the Navajo; he convinced the Marines it would baffle the best of the cryptographers. Johnston knew that the Native American languages-notably Choctaw-had been used in World War I to encode messages. He said the language could be used as the basis for a code to transmit battle plans and vital messages. The idea to use the Navajo language to secure communities also came from Johnston; back on the Navajo reservation where Johnston once…
Some of you may not know about the Navajo Code Talkers, so I’m going to tell you a little bit about them. The Code Talkers are arguably the most important part of the U.S.’s army during World War II. For starters, the Code Talkers weren’t white men. They were actually indians who lived normal lives. The Code Talkers weren’t all…
“Code Talker”, by Joseph Bruchac is about the life of a Navajo boy growing into a man. It describes his life as a child on an Indian Reservation up to adulthood. The story is told through the main character’s point of view, thoughts and actions. The book tells of the difficulties that the Navajo people faced in the white man’s world. It tells of the life lessons that the difficulties taught the Navajo boy. It addresses the overall values of the Navajo people and how they were treated by the white men. The book develops into the story of how the main character accepted his role in World War II as a Code Talker. The role of the main character and other Navajo young men contributed to the success of the United States Marines winning the war.…
The Ultra Secret (Enigma) During World War II, it was essential to try and obtain secret high-value information from the Nazis. Such information was normally written in ciphers – secret methods of writing in code so that enemies cannot decrypt the information. The cipher used by Germany during World War II was a very complex polyalphabetic cipher, which was a code that alternated between multiple alphabets to write messages, making the message appear to be random letter combinations. The alphabets were switched at random throughout the message, thus increasing the difficulty of cracking the cipher. The cipher that the Germans primarily utilized during World War II was known as Enigma, with was also the name of the machine which was used to encrypt the German messages.…
In the novel The Candymakers by Wendy Mass, Logan, Miles, Daisy, and Philip are competing to make the world’s best candy. Logan is the son of the man who owns the candy factory Life is Sweet. When the annual competition comes to see which twelve year old can make the best candy, Logan enters along with 31 other kids but only three others practice at Life is Sweet. Daisy, Miles, and Philip all come eager to make candy, but each is hiding a secret. Which one will become the supreme candymaker? The thematic statement I chose was “It is better to try something and fail than to never have tried at all.” My evidence is that Logan made a delicious candy, but it didn’t do what he wanted. He didn’t win, but he knew that his dad was proud of him because he tried, and he was proud of himself.…
Message coded – individual thinks about how they are going to say what they are thinking and decides in what form the communication will be i.e spoken words or sign language. An individual puts it into this form.…
see how motivation is created and sustained through a process I call ignition. Ignition and deep practice work together…
I. Chester Nez, an original Navajo Code Talker and the last surviving of the original 29, was born in a shack at a place currently called Oak Canyon. Nez does not know exactly when he was born, but roughly around 1921, which makes him currently 92 years old. Nez was only 18 years old when the United States Marines came to his school in Arizona one day in 1942 to recruit him as a Navajo Code Talker. Nez is perfect to write this piece, because Nez experienced being a Navajo Code Talker first-handedly, which makes this book a direct primary source. Nez wrote this book because he felt that there was a need to express and show how helpful the Navajo Code Talkers were at interpreting the unbreakable code.…
Everyone harmonizes in a clique within society that they feel welcomes them. Professor Ignatieff of the Practice of Human Right at Harvard University interpreted that “to belong is to understand the tacit codes of the people you live with”, meaning that in order to be suitably linked to a specific crowd, you must understand their implicit codes and know to abide by them. Although some believe these tacit codes cease to exist among groups, I feel as though they have been implanted into every group within our society no matter what its size or purpose is. For example, one of the tacit codes I know far better than any other is girl code. Not all girls understand the implied policies you’re supposed to follow and I feel they should get a fair warning before it’s too late. Every group has its own set of unspoken rules that define the basis of what is to be known and ensure the feeling that you belong, much like that of one of the most baffling codes that exists today: girl code.…
A lot of changes were made after WWII because of the Code Talkers; even today it is not forgotten by the Federal Government and the Navajo people. A lot of the Navajo men signed up for the war. “About 80% of Navajos were drafted for the army and most were rejected because of their inability to read/write in English. This brought about an increase in demand for more schools for Navajos” (Acrey).The Navajo language has been tested several times throughout history from our enemies. The Navajo Code Talkers were the main men behind the scenes that learned to translate information within a code of a code. For example, “Navy” was the message so the code used [tsah (Needle), wol-la-chee (Ant), ah-keh-di-glini (Victor), tsah-ah-dzoh (Yucca).] Using the first letter of the translation word, then combined together to get the message. Many other Navajo words were used to describe military objects such as “besh-lo” (iron fish) which meant “submarine”. The Navajo Code Talkers kept the code a secret until Sept. 17, 1992 when they were finally recognized at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. (Naval History & Heritage). Many of the interviews I conducted all mention the highly respect for the Navajo Code Talkers mentioning that Navajo language is powerful, there is no other language like Navajo. Even though the United States abused the Navajos and tried to dehumanize them, they still fought for their land. With this valor history of the Navajo language, it is needed to be kept and passed on for the future generations. It was also mentioned by Mitchell Blackhorse that if we were to be involved in another war that needed the Navajo Language, then it could be done because a lot of the available translation and “software” is not complete. We are still capable of using other words that are not…
Previous research has also given scarce attention to what actually happens when a code is used. The code is cornered as ‘a vehicle for bringing…
It was during World War II, when almost all the European countries were trying to find out what the rivals are up to. There was a need to keep the information secret from the competitors. Arthur Scherbius, a German engineer developed an ultimate machine that can encipher/decipher a message. It was called the Enigma. It was a small box, which consisted of physical keys, rotors, bulbs and electrical wires connecting them. Enigma was the most powerful code-making machine until then. Enigma was used to cipher plain text into jumbled text and there were many different settings in the machine to do this. There can be 159 quintillion possibilities for a given letter, which means decoding using frequency analysis was impossible. To put it in simple words, Enigma was unbreakable.…
As a 23 year retired veteran of the United States Navy, communications becomes a major part of everyday life. Military men and women are introduced to what is known as the chain of command and the structure in which it is written at each command. Communications is something that we are taught not to take for granted because it could be…