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Re: archives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonomasia)
Thu Jun 28 21:19:59 2001
To: crim@globalserve.net, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Message-Id: <20010627183857.40FE446BB@notatla.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:38:57 +0100 (BST)
From: ant@notatla.demon.co.uk (Antonomasia)
From: max curious <crim@globalserve.net>
> Hello, I remember there was a thread regarding cracking the
> enigma machine and how the code breakers did not want to
> consider the simplest cases and as a result it took several
> years longer to 'crack' it. I think it was an article, but where
> and when (and on which mailing list I saw it and precisely what
> it was about) I can not remember. I apologize for being so vague
> but if someone could point me to the archives of this list or
> point me to the correct email OR to the correct mailing list -
> that would be great.
Sending "grep enigma" to arcbot@notatla.demon.co.uk would have returned
(among other things)
pine.lnx.4.21.0104210310090.7508-100000@idle.curiosity.org
from: william knowles <wk@c4i.org>
Date: 23apr2001
Subject: Key to breaking Nazi code was in the patent office
Keywords:
12: BRITAIN'S wartime codebreakers could have cracked the German Enigma
25: manufactured it, had offered the British Government commercial Enigma
33: thought, British codebreakers were working on the Enigma machine
37: after gaining vital help from the Poles. The Enigma machine looked
46: who broke Enigma. "When they had a perfect opportunity to introduce a
57: Six months later, codebreakers made their first break into Enigma,
and "get pine.lnx.4.21.0104210310090.7508-100000@idle.curiosity.org"
gets you the article.
Use of the Subject: field for "coderpunks" or "cryptography" limits the
search to one list instead of both.
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