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Beating Colossus: an interview with Joachim Schueth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean McGrath)
Tue Jan 29 20:54:21 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:20:25 -0800
From: Sean McGrath <sean@manybits.net>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/schueth-interview.html
"Beating Colossus: an interview with Joachim Schueth
Joachim Schueth has beaten a reconstruction of the famous Colossus Mark
II code breaking machine in November 2007. The Colossus computers were
used in World War II to break the German encrypted messages. Equipped
with a NetBSD-powered laptop and profound knowledge of cryptography and
the Ada programming language, Schueth has won the code-cracking
challenge. We talked with him about the historical and technical
backgrounds of the Cipher Event and the tools he has used."
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Sean McGrath
sean@manybits.net
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