[Spooks] Did anyone see the CNN story on Ana Montes

[Renato Tambellini]

Hi Tom,

I agree.

The cuban guerrila commander Che Guevara has used a conversion table and 
a one time pad like Ana Montes and that table also used the number nine.

*
* 	*8
* 	*2
* 	*0
* 	*6
* 	*4
* 	*9
* 	*1
* 	*3
* 	*7
* 	*5
*
*
* 	*E**
* 	*S**
* 	*T**
* 	*A**
* 	*D**
* 	*O**
* 	*Y**
* 	
	
	
*3
* 	*B**
* 	*C**
* 	*F**
* 	*G**
* 	*H**
* 	*I**
* 	*J**
* 	
	
	
*7
* 	*K**
* 	*L**
* 	*M**
* 	*N**
* 	*Ñ**
* 	*P**
* 	*Q**
* 	
	
	
*5
* 	*R**
* 	*U**
* 	*V**
* 	*W**
* 	*X**
* 	*Z**
* 	*
* 	
	
	


Reference:

http://m4t.es/index.php/curiosidades/125-el-cifrado-de-vernam-y-el-cuaderno-de-un-solo-uso-de-che-guevara

On 06-08-2016 00:41, Tom Sevart wrote:
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>> I apologize for detracting from the wonderful tinfoil-hat nut-job
>> discussion, but has anyone here been able to decrypt any past recordings
>> of V02 or related transmissions from the time when Ana Montes was active
>> using the key below?
>>
>
> I would hope that the Cubans would be intelligent enough to not use 
> the same key for more than one message.  The NSA would barely have to 
> switch their computer on to break those messages.
>
> It does, though, show that the old V2a messages which contained all 10 
> digits are likely real messages, while the ones which never contained 
> the number 9 are likely dummy messages.  Or, I guess that particular 
> agent could have been given a key without a 9 on it for some reason. 
> But the dummy traffic explanation seems more likely.
>