Re: enigma Re: the wisdom of crypto "challenges" (was Re: $100,000 reward)

mgraffam@mhv.net
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:50:52 -0400 (EDT)

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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998 jcaldwel@iquest.net wrote:

> > analysis of rotor machines. While few people would actually go ahead and
> > break a rotor (are there actually any true rotor machine simulators
> > available?),
>
> Ahem, unix crypt? The crypt breakers workbench can break files encrypted
> with these, but I can't make it work in linux..yet.

It was my understanding that crypt(1) was a modified "Enigma" .. I'l
check out the others you list, but I do not believe that any of them
produce actual Enigma ciphertext.. I could be wrong.

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