Recommended Movie: "Sebastian" 1968.

[Cari Machet]

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On Aug 18, 2015 9:29 PM, "jim bell" <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> *From:* Peter Fairbrother <peter at m-o-o-t.org>
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> *Subject:* Re: Recommended Movie: "Sebastian" 1968.
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> On 18/08/15 03:46, jim bell wrote:
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> >> Since people seem to be recommending things, I recommend the movie
> >> "Sebastian".  Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York.
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIK3OYnD9MY
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> >> Out of date even when it was made, I think it really represents the
> >> cryptography situation as of the 1930's.
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> >Based on a screenplay by Leo Marks - author of Between Silk and Cyanide:
> >A Codemaker's War 1941-1945.
> >Essential reading. Leo was the codemaker for SOE. All hand ciphers and
> >agents.
> >He wasn't at Bletchley - who called him "the one who got away" - though,
> >and so no machine ciphers.
> >The Silk in the title was for OTPs which could be hidden in clothing
> >from Gestapo/SS searches.
> >As I said, essential reading.
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> The tv show 60 Minutes spilled the beans about Enigma in 1975.
> http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-ultra-secret/
> What most people didn't realize was that the controversy was due to the
> fact that rotor-driven cipher machines had been continued to be sold in the
> post-WWII era, without their weakness being recognized.  This allowed the
> CIA/GCHQ to continue to decrypt enciphered messages for decades afterwards.
>              Jim Bell
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