{"id":4850,"date":"2010-02-17T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2010-02-17T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T08:00:53","slug":"tinker-tailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4850","title":{"rendered":"Tinker, Tailor \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/01\/ff_hideandseek\/all\/1\">Tale of a Would-Be Spy, Buried Treasure, and Uncrackable Code<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When officials searched the aspiring spy, they found a paper tucked under the insole of his right shoe. On it were written the addresses of several Iraqi and Chinese embassies in Europe. In a trouser pocket they discovered a spiral pad in which Regan, who had been trained in cryptanalysis by the Air Force, had written 13 seemingly unconnected words \u2014 like tricycle, rocket, and glove. Another 26 words were written on an index card. In his wallet was a paper with a string of several dozen letters and numbers beginning \u201c5-6-N-V-O-A- I \u2026\u201d And in a folder Regan had been carrying, they found four pages filled with three-digit numbers, or trinomes: 952, 832, 041, and so on. The spiral pad, the index card, the wallet note, and the sheets of trinomes: The FBI suddenly had four puzzles to solve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tale of a Would-Be Spy, Buried Treasure, and Uncrackable Code When officials searched the aspiring spy, they found a paper tucked under the insole of his right shoe. On it were written the addresses of several Iraqi and Chinese embassies &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4850\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}