Re: Hey old people

[Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () cisco com>]

The Enigma issue did involve a flaw in the design of the machine, and  
the Germans ended up distributing new rotors to correct it . . .  
repeatedly, heh.


On Dec 25, 2005, at 8:51 AM, Aviram Jenik wrote:

> 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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