[Cryptography] When the Muenchen got scuppered...

[Richard Outerbridge]

> On 2018-05-08 (128), at 18:16:57, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> On this day in 1941, the German "weather ship" München got raided by the allies, who made off with a complete Enigma machine, the wheels,x and the codebooks.
> 
> Need I say more?
> 
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Not only that, but the weather code they captured led to the breaking of SHARK, four rotor ENIGMA,
due to the idempotent setting built into SHARK in order to send & receive the weather code messages.
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