Re: Hey old people

[Aviram Jenik <aviram () beyondsecurity com>]

On Friday, 23 December 2005 18:30, Drsolly wrote:
> The crypto vulnerability that led to the Zimmermann Telegram, which
> contributed to the USA entering the war against Germany.

On Wednesday, 21 December 2005 23:12, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> Along those lines, wouldn't the Enigma-machine bugs which allowed
> decryption of German communications during WWII be considered
> germmane (pardon the pun)?  There was even a hardware-swapout
> involved, of new rotors.


Can crypto weaknesses be considered 'vulnerabilities'? In most cases (e.g. 
cracking the Enigma code and deciphering the Zimmerman telegram) they are 
done by humintly retrieving the key or brute-forcing the cipher in one way or 
another.

Anyway, if these count, I nominate the breaking of the Caesar cipher :-P

- Aviram
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