They brought him with clappers in front of Sadat after his exciting proposal
The departure of the owner of the idea of writing the code of the October War in the Nubian language
Ahmed Idris, the owner of the idea of encrypting communications in the October war.
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Last Tuesday, the Egyptian citizen Ibn Nuba Ahmed Idris, the owner and implementer of the idea of encrypting wireless communications in the October 1973 war in the Nubian language, passed away at the age of 84, and he kept the secret of encryption for 40 years, believing in his duty to maintain the secret even after the end of the war.
The idea of developing an impenetrable formula preoccupied the Egyptian leadership after the 1967 war and during the war of attrition, and the idea of Ahmed Idris came in parallel with other ideas that departed from the traditional framework and ensured victory, such as the demolition of the Bar Lev line with water, according to experts and observers.
Before his departure, Ahmed Idris told the story of the code to the Egyptian channel “Extra News”, where he said that “President Sadat, three months after taking power, informed his leaders about the Israeli efforts to break the Egyptian code, so he asked them to find a solution to this problem, and my presence as a sergeant in the army coincided with a discussion About the problem, I intervened by saying that the solution is simple, is to use the Nubian language.
Idris added, "His commander asked him about his idea precisely, and he replied that the Nubian dialect is an unwritten dialect. If the transmission and reception were done in Nubian, there would be no way to decipher the code."
Idris added that he was “surprised a few days after the proposal, in the presence of the brigade commander, with a captain and a guard, as they summoned him and they had clamps that were placed in his hands, and they arrested him and took him from Abu Sweir in Ismailia to an official building he did not know that turned out to be the Presidency of the Republic building, where they left it for an hour. And half of it was for him like 3 years, and then President Anwar Sadat appeared, where he patted his shoulder, asking him to calm down and sit down, explaining to him that the reason for putting the clips in his hands was camouflage.
Idris noted that “Sadat, as originally a signal officer, understood the idea of the Nubian cipher simply and easily,” and that “after Idris finished explaining the idea, Sadat responded briefly, give Hamshi your words and implement your idea,” asking him “to hide the idea even from the closest people to him.” And he threatened that "if the idea was leaked, he would be considered the first responsible for it," and threatened that "if that happened, he would hit Idris with fire."
Idris added that "on his return, he found a letter from the leadership inviting him to attend with all his missions to the leadership, where stations were named after Nubian names, and a Nubian recruit was placed at each station, and this situation continued until the end of the October 1973 war."
It is worth mentioning that Idris was born in the village of Thomas and Afia in 1973 in the Aswan Governorate.
In 1954, he enlisted in the army in the border guards.
Take part in the war of the tripartite aggression.
He remained in the Sinai desert from 1957 until the Yemen war.
Then he entered the 1967 war.
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