George Santyana & crypto
bill payne
billp at nmol.com
Tue Sep 22 23:46:40 PDT 1998
I am reading http://www.jya.com/sig-attack.htm
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Then, in late 1942, the Royal Navy switched codes to the one-time
pad system. The Nazi tap was lost forever because the
pad system is unbreakable in both theory as well as practice.
U-boats could no longer ambush helpless ships like wolves on
sheep. Convoy after convoy arrived safe and intact, protected in the
armor of an unbreakable code system. The U-boats had
to change tactics. http://www.us.net/softwar/
Germany used the enigma algorithm and machine.
Japan used the purple algorithm.
And look what happened to them.
About crypto algorithms.
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat
it."
-- George Santyana, 1905
Title: Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms
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