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12 points by ashwinl 10 years ago · 2 comments

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ithkuil 10 years ago

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.

zz1 10 years ago

Great example of the importance of diversity!

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