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Enigma security
Posted by: SuperKraut ()
Date: August 20, 2001 11:50AM

<HTML>\">Even if the Germans had positive proof that Enigma was compromised, they had no spare coding system to take its place.<\" Not so. The Enigma security fiasco is a rather long story which has been discussed here already, so I will just limit this to the rotors. The Enigma was a perfectly workable ciphering system and essentially unbreakable IF the ROTORS are changed frequently. Only 8 rotors were used through the course of the war and they were all stolen by the British. The Germans should have been using hundreds of rotors. Breaking a rotor wiring pattern by analysis was a time consuming job, so all the Germans had to do was keep introducing new rotors and Bletchly would have been chasing its tail for the course of the war. This is not to say that some design changes could also have increased security, especially to analysis, but the basic idea was sound.

The rotor issue could have been solved in a matter of weeks. Design changes could have been done in a year.

Regards,
SuperKraut</HTML>

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Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war? Frank Blazich 08/19/2001 05:52PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war oliver 08/19/2001 06:17PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war walter M 08/19/2001 06:28PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Joe Brennan 08/20/2001 06:09AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Frank Blazich 08/20/2001 01:39AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war kurt 08/19/2001 08:18PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war oliver 08/19/2001 08:30PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war kurt 08/20/2001 02:38AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Frank Blazich 08/20/2001 01:42AM
Enigma security SuperKraut 08/20/2001 11:50AM
RE: Enigma security Frank Blazich 08/20/2001 07:15PM
New rotors SuperKraut 08/20/2001 08:45PM
RE: New rotors Torlef 08/21/2001 05:53AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Joe Brennan 08/20/2001 05:53AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Antonio Veiga 08/21/2001 09:00PM


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