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Navajo Code Talkers (defense.gov)
12 points by ashwinl 3957 days ago
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I'm surprised that navajo has been chose because it is a complex language, yet it's complexity wasn't actually used for the code, since actual english words were encoded in it using a navajo word -> english letter mapping.

I guess unfamiliar phonetics here played a major role in obfuscation.

Great example of the importance of diversity!