forty weepy weepy

noun

Etymology

From a message whose plaintext began fortyweepyyweepy: German fort (“forth”), short for Fortsetzung (“continuation”) + weep, typewriter code for 23:30, the time of the previous message. Enigma machines had no number keys, so the letter y marked the letters to be interpreted as numbers.

  1. derived from fort — “forth

Definitions

  1. The cryptanalysis of an Enigma message which was a continuation of a previous message…

    The cryptanalysis of an Enigma message which was a continuation of a previous message sent at a known time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forty weepy weepy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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