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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Its because the end language wasn’t known and didn’t share common roots with any languages they knew.
You can break english codes if you know english because you know things like “e” is the most common letter, so it will be the most common character in the code. Or if its full sentences then the grammatical structure will be the same.
With navajo they didn’t need to encrypt anything because there wasn’t any point of reference, the words/letters and the end words were different.
The fundamental trick to most cryptography is that at the end of the day its a language you know but just written differently. If you don’t know the language at the end then you are pretty screwed.
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