Navajo Code Talkers

[ashwinl]

http://www.defense.gov/specials/americanindian/factsheet.html

[ithkuil]

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]

Great example of the importance of diversity!