I had always just believed it was because they were isolated, but I’d been thinking about it lately and that just doesn’t hold up. Can someone familiar with code breaking and encryption help me understand why they were nearly impossible to understand, while almost every other cipher was eventually cracked? Thank you!
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Right, it wasn’t well known. A non-speaker of any language is going to have difficulty even separating the words. And then a lot of words that sound similar can be confused without context clues. They don’t even share all the same sounds. If you’re not familiar with the sound, you might think it’s just a weird grunt, or confuse it with a similar sound.
And they would mix the code in with conversation, so they couldn’t tell where it started or ended.
From a crytography POV, it probably would have been easy. But when you can’t even get a reliable copy of the ciphertext, forget about it.
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