On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 03:17:32PM -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: > On 5 December 2014 at 13:36, Tomasz Rola <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > From what I've gathered so far, up to early 1970-ties the > > popular knowledge was that Enigma was unbreakable, and at the same > > time some derivative of it had been sold to third world countries (I > > don't remember who sold them, UK or USA). > [...] > > I believe you are thinking of Boris Hagelin and Crypto AG. There's
Frankly, I am not sure. Those names resonate but. Perhaps I will dig something out of memory hole, or maybe not. > lots of material easily found online, but as always with this kind of > thing, you have to parse and filter carefully to avoid the many > conspiracy theories on the one hand, and doubtless disinformation on > the other. Yeah. But filtering is fun :-). I mean, when I'm not asleep. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
