[Cryptography] how to detect breakage -- lures etc.??

[John Levine]

In article <c370a0e9e7d456c9a0538a7a43077980b8c17255.camel at sonic.net> you write:
>On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 07:21 -0500, Arnold Reinhold via cryptography
>wrote:
>Right.  The problem with rotor machines in general isn't that they're
>insecure.  Although many of the early ones were insecure, that's not
>endemic to rotor machines as a class.  In fact, as they run on systems
>that are known with absolute certainty to NOT be running any kind of
>malware or spyware (because they can't), they can arguably be even more
>secure than modern ciphers.

That's what I would have said until the messages we saw last week
about Selectric typewriters and GUNMAN.

The security model is certainly different from stuff running on a
general purpose computer.