On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:53:29 AM Douglas J. Trainor wrote: [quoting CNN] > subsequently cracked by a team at the legendary Bletchley Park
Whilst BP did this during the war, CNN miss completely the fact that if it hadn't been for the successful Polish efforts against Engima in the 1930's (they first read German Enigma traffic in late 1933 according to Peter Clvocoressi, and could decrypt 75% of their intercepts at one point), and their gifts of their reverse-engineered devices (with ABCDE keyboards rather than QWERTY) to the British and French in July 1939, BP might not have been as successful as it was. cheers! Chris -- Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.unimelb.edu.au/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
