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Paul Bennewitz & Alien Invasion (Dulce Base, Project Beta, Richard Doty)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

CHAPTER

How to Decrypt a Message

In the early eighties, random access memory was measured in kilobites. Gregg bishop explains perhaps the deluge of data paul was getting could be handled better by a computer. Bennewitz built many of his own computers and wrote the software as his needs changed. Now instead of calculating circuit resistance or budget estimates for thunder scientific he needed to figure out something that had never been seen by civilian eyes. The starting point that paul used for this description is actually a common one among crypt analysts.

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