R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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the first computer to crack enigma was optical
the first synthetic-aperture-radar processor was optical
but all these early successes were classified -- 100 to 200 projects,
and I probably know of less than half.
-- Do these claims compute?! is this really a
At 01:30 AM 10/2/2002 -0400, John S. Denker wrote:
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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the first computer to crack enigma was optical
1) Bletchley Park used optical sensors, which were (and
still are) the best way to read paper tape at high speed.
You can read about it in the standard accounts, e.g.
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At 01:30 AM 10/2/2002 -0400, John S. Denker wrote:
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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the first computer to crack enigma was optical
1) Bletchley Park used optical sensors, which were (and
still are) the best way to read paper tape at high speed.
You can
At 11:25 PM 10/1/02 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
I'm at a speech by Terry Essex, CTO of Essex Corp. He worked on optical
computing at the NSA for a long time.
the first computer to crack enigma was optical
In one of the historical books about crypto, there's a method
described involving
