Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage, is a very large bird of prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus. The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70–90% bone.
Ossifrage ('bone-breaker', from Latin) is an older name for the bearded vulture, a scavenger famous for dropping animal bones and live tortoises on top of rocks to crack them open. The 1993–94 effort began the tradition of using the words "squeamish ossifrage" in cryptanalytic challenges.
SS Ossifrage was a Canadian barge that hit a shoal in the Northumberland Strait in 1919, while she was being towed from Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada to Souris, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Construction
When decrypted using the factorization the message was revealed to be "The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage". In 2015, RSA-129 was factored in about one day, with the CADO-NFS open source implementation of number field sieve, using a commercial cloud computing service for about $30.
The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage: Solved in 1993–1994 1983 Decipher: Solved [1] 1986 Decipher II: Partially solved (all 4 ciphertexts solved between 1985 and 1986, but the solution to the 4th ciphertext has since been lost) [2] 1987 Decipher III: Unsolved [2] 1990 Kryptos: Partially solved (3 out of the 4 ciphertexts solved between ...
Squeamish Ossifrage 14:35, 18 August 2015 (UTC) @Squeamish Ossifrage: just to make sure, that was a full source review right. It looked pretty full to me Just wanted to make sure so I don't go off finding another person to do a source review.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language.. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us