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From: don@allegra.UUCP (Don Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: crypt and enigma
Message-ID: <4051@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-May-85 04:32:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 04:32:56 1985
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Actually, the German "enigma" code was not broken in the complete sense
in WWII.  The Germans put the key into the message in a stupid way.
The method Reeds used to break crypt is a relatively new idea; probably
discovered around 1960 by the NSA.  The government still used rotor
machines up until then.