archives?
Hello, I remember there was a thread regarding cracking the enigma machine and how the code breakers did not want to consider the simplest cases and as a result it took several years longer to 'crack' it. I think it was an article, but where and when (and on which mailing list I saw it and precisely what it was about) I can not remember. I apologize for being so vague but if someone could point me to the archives of this list or point me to the correct email OR to the correct mailing list - that would be great. Thank you for your time Max - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: archives?
From: max curious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, I remember there was a thread regarding cracking the > enigma machine and how the code breakers did not want to > consider the simplest cases and as a result it took several > years longer to 'crack' it. I think it was an article, but where > and when (and on which mailing list I saw it and precisely what > it was about) I can not remember. I apologize for being so vague > but if someone could point me to the archives of this list or > point me to the correct email OR to the correct mailing list - > that would be great. Sending "grep enigma" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] would have returned (among other things) [EMAIL PROTECTED] from: william knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 23apr2001 Subject: Key to breaking Nazi code was in the patent office Keywords: 12: BRITAIN'S wartime codebreakers could have cracked the German Enigma 25: manufactured it, had offered the British Government commercial Enigma 33: thought, British codebreakers were working on the Enigma machine 37: after gaining vital help from the Poles. The Enigma machine looked 46: who broke Enigma. "When they had a perfect opportunity to introduce a 57: Six months later, codebreakers made their first break into Enigma, and "get [EMAIL PROTECTED]" gets you the article. Use of the Subject: field for "coderpunks" or "cryptography" limits the search to one list instead of both. -- ## # Antonomasia ant notatla.demon.co.uk # # See http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/# ## - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: archives?
max curious wrote: > > Hello, I remember there was a thread regarding cracking the enigma machine and how > the code breakers did not want to consider the simplest cases and as a result it > took several years longer to 'crack' it. ... One place to lokk is the web site for Bletchley Park: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: archives?
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, max curious writes: >Hello, I remember there was a thread regarding cracking the enigma machine and > how >the code breakers did not want to consider the simplest cases and as a result >it >took several years longer to 'crack' it. I think it was an article, but where >and >when (and on which mailing list I saw it and precisely what it was about) I ca >n not >remember. I apologize for being so vague but if someone could point me to the >archives of this list or point me to the correct email OR to the correct maili >ng >list - that would be great. I'm not 100% certain what you're referring to. However, there was considerable confusion early on about the keyboard encoding -- was 'A' mapped to 'A', etc., or was there (effectively) an unkeyed monoalphabetic substitution first. IT turned out that it was just a straight-through mapping, but they hadn't tried that. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
