Solving the Olum 1 Cipher

IF 0.3 4区工程技术 Q4 COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS

Cryptologia Pub Date : 2021-11-13 DOI:10.1080/01611194.2021.1974124

Paul W. Relkin

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Abstract During the second World War, American mathematician Paul Olum created two ciphers, labeled “Olum 1” and “Olum 2”, as challenges for the renowned atomic physicist Richard Feynman. These ciphers eluded solution by Feynman and remained unsolved for over 75 years. This manuscript presents the first successful decoding of the Olum 1 cipher. It describes the methods used to solve Olum 1 as well as the historical context of the once-classified information it contains. It concludes with observations about the possible authorship of additional ciphers given to Richard Feynman and examines the possibility that they, too, were created by Paul Olum.

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解决Olum 1密码

摘要第二次世界大战期间，美国数学家Paul Olum创建了两个密码，分别命名为“Olum 1”和“Olum 2”，这是对著名原子物理学家Richard Feynman的挑战。这些密码未能被费曼破解，并在超过75年的时间里仍未破解年。这份手稿展示了Olum 1密码的首次成功解码。它描述了用于解决Olum 1的方法，以及它所包含的曾经分类的信息的历史背景。它以对理查德·费曼（Richard Feynman）获得的额外密码的可能作者的观察作为结论，并考察了这些密码也是由保罗·奥勒姆（Paul Olum）创造的可能性。

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Cryptologia 工程技术-计算机：理论方法

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33.30%

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审稿时长

24 months

期刊介绍： Cryptologia is the only scholarly journal in the world dealing with the history, the technology, and the effect of the most important form of intelligence in the world today - communications intelligence. It fosters the study of all aspects of cryptology -- technical as well as historical and cultural. The journal"s articles have broken many new paths in intelligence history. They have told for the first time how a special agency prepared information from codebreaking for President Roosevelt, have described the ciphers of Lewis Carroll, revealed details of Hermann Goering"s wiretapping agency, published memoirs - written for it -- of some World War II American codebreakers, disclosed how American codebreaking affected the structure of the United Nations.