Re: Hey old people

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Drsolly wrote:
> > A. Getting the actual hardware (without which the allies were completely 
> > clueless)

Versions of the hardware had been sold commercially since the 1920s.  It 
couldn't have been that hard.

> The whole point of Enigma (and devices like it) was that you couldn't 
> brute-force it.

That was a design goal, yes.  Which was not met.

> Also, remember that at that time a "computer" was a person 
> with a pencil and paper.

Which time?  The point of the Enigma crack was that Turing build an 
eletctro-mechanical computer to assist with the cracking, no?

Related to the original topic I started, this time (1940's) was the 
birth of electric computers.

To whatever degree they are accurate, Wikipedia has a couple of good 
articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

                                                BB
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