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From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: How secure is 'crypt'?
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 22:47:55 EDT
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In article <566@lll-crg.ARPA> brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III) writes:
>I understand that there is unreleased program at Bell Labs that can
>crack crypt in short order on a vax.  This is not surprising as crypt is
>based on the enigma that was cracked before the days of computers.
>
Or as I understand it was partly responsible for the creation of computers! -
it was cracking Enigma codes that Turing etc developed the first programmable
electronic digital computers for.  (At Blechley Park, near Milton Keynes, UK).