poem-code

I was tempted to say that I'd looked in for a chat about the poem-code.

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The poem-code simply couldn't stand up to these mass-produced texts.

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The poem-code had become a worldwide malignancy, and to send WOKs and LOPs to Cairo, India and Burma " whose agents needed them just as badly as their European counterparts " enough silk would be needed for at least 40 million code-groups.

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I said it aloud: 'The poem-code is the best damn-'

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And at three minutes to coding countdown, even the shell of a briefing officer would make himself believe that the poem-code was the best damn code there is.

between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998

I imparted the good news that I'd come to show him how I believed the enemy would attack the poem-code, and he invited me to take all the time I needed; he had no other appointments for fifteen minutes.

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And when they made their bid to deny the Germans the use of atomic power they would be sending their messages in the poem-code.

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The fifth and final part would deal with the archaic misthinking behind the poem-code and the new concepts which should immediately replace it.

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We were still using the poem-code, still relying on its security checks, still sending him top secret information.

between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998

The Free French were passing all their traffic in the British poem-code and disguising it from us by using a secret indicator system.

between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998