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Cracking Enigma
Posted by: Marco ()
Date: December 19, 2000 08:34PM

<HTML>For some time now I though that the British has outright cracked the Naval Enigma code. After doing a little bit of research, I find that the term \"cracked\" may be highly inappropriate. The boarding of U110 in May of 1941 gave the British, in particular Alan Turing and his associates at Bletchley Park, a massive unforeseen break in their cryptographic efforts against Enigma, which up until that point had proved fruitless and arguably would have remained that way if U110 had not been boarded. Further, the boarding of U559 in October of 1942 and the capture of critical Enigma documents and settings ( I don\'t know if an actual machine was taken) practically gave the British the solution to solving the 4 wheel Enigma. Therefore I somewhat resent the use of the term \"cracked\" when in actuality it was not cracked in the strict sense of the word. I raise this point because of the perception that the British were brilliant enough to crack Enigma on their own, when in reality this is simply not true, and further, with out the fortunate obtainment of key Enigma documents, I firmly believe it never would have been cracked.

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Subject Written By Posted
Cracking Enigma Marco 12/19/2000 08:34PM
RE: Cracking Enigma Craig McLean 12/20/2000 03:05AM
RE: Cracking Enigma Takeo 12/20/2000 10:39AM
RE: Cracking Enigma Fin Bonset 12/20/2000 12:52PM
Your P.S. SuperKraut 12/20/2000 03:56PM
RE: Your P.S. Fin Bonset 12/20/2000 05:25PM
Hey wait a minute... :-) MCE 12/20/2000 06:38PM
RE: Hey wait a minute... :-) Fin Bonset 12/20/2000 06:47PM
RE: Hey wait a minute... :-) MCE 12/20/2000 06:58PM
RE:What This..? Joe Brennan 12/22/2000 09:12AM
RE:What This..? MCE 12/22/2000 08:00PM
Computers at Bletchley SuperKraut 12/20/2000 04:12PM
RE: Computers at Bletchley MCE 12/20/2000 06:46PM
RE: Computers at Bletchley Ralph Langley 12/20/2000 07:01PM
RE: Cracking Enigma Dietzsch 12/20/2000 08:44AM
Enigma and Ultra SuperKraut 12/20/2000 10:19AM
RE: Enigma and Ultra philip henderson 12/23/2000 12:27AM
Enigma and Fish SuperKraut 12/23/2000 10:18AM


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