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Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Enigma Machine
Adler writes: "A man has pleaded guilty to to 'handling' the stolen Enigma machine in the UK. Its a short piece, but says that some vital parts of the machine are still missing. A longer BBC News piece is here." You may remember when this was first stolen, then held for ransom, then recovered -- this is the mopping up part.
If only he had wrapped it in a better conundrum ...
...he could've stolen U-571 before the audiences were forced to watch that crap.
;)
I'd have to give him a medal if he did that.
As the US government now demands that a backdoor be put into this World War II relic ... it WAS considered 'strong' encryption in World War II anyway ...
Yes, use the enigma system to encrypt your credit card details and post them as a reply to this message.
:-)
Then we will see if it is still a valid encryption method
/me thinks symmetric cyphers which do not encode a letter as itself ever should be easy prey for any modern computer
"It's better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done" - Orbital
...the country of Poland is being charged under the DMCA for creating a device capable of circumventing copyright. What they did was clear disrespect for the Nazi's intellectual property rights.
"First they tell you you're wrong and they can prove it; then they tell you you're right but it isn't important; then they tell you it's important but they knew it all along." -Charles Kettering
In the recent trend to link everything to Osama Bin Laden, many officals believe the Enigma was being used by Bin Laden as described before as his "High Tech Cryptography" that he switched to after he found out the US was monitoring his satellite phone conversations.
Ah well, at least we have movies like U571 to correctly tell us who was involved in the war.