[Cryptography] FW: RFC 7253 on The OCB Authenticated-Encryption Algorithm

[Richard Outerbridge]

On 2014-06-01 (152), at 19:25:14, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Jun 2014, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> 
> [….]

> Which is pretty much how Enigma was broken.  Of course, to be fair, the 
> operator in question probably had bombs dropping around his ears, and 
> forgot to change the rotor settings.  Understandable, I guess...
> 
> — Dave

No, no, no, no. The 1st Polish crack into early Enigma was due to
operator and procedural error, pretty much. But I think what you’re
thinking of is the crack of FISH, which was an offset by one of a
retransmission of a baudot stream. Could be wrong: I often am.
__outer