archives?

Antonomasia ant at notatla.demon.co.uk
Wed Jun 27 14:38:57 EDT 2001


From: max curious <crim at 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 at notatla.demon.co.uk would have returned
(among other things)

pine.lnx.4.21.0104210310090.7508-100000 at idle.curiosity.org
from: william knowles <wk at 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 at 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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