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Day: 23 March 2019

  • Image representing post: How many people are missing out on JavaScript enhancement?

    How many people are missing out on JavaScript enhancement?

    few weeks back, we were chatting about the architecture of the Individual Electoral Registration web service.  We started discussing the pros and cons of an approach that would provide a significantly different interaction for any people not running JavaScript.

    "What proportion of people is that?โ€ an inquisitive mind asked.

    Silence.

    We didnโ€™t really have any idea how many โ€ฆ

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    • posted 23 March, 2019
  • Image representing post: Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex

    Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex


    How to guides
    How to encrypt/decrypt with Enigma
    We'll start with a step-by-step guide to decrypting a known message. You can see the result of these steps in CyberChef here. Let's say that our message is as follows:

    XTSYN WAEUG EZALY NRQIM AMLZX MFUOD AWXLY LZCUZ QOQBQ JLCPK NDDRW F

    And that we've been told โ€ฆ

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