[3615] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: [aaa-list] Tommy Flowers, Engineer who cracked German
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BlueFlux)
Tue Nov 10 23:49:48 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 02:19:43 +0100
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DC-Stuff <dc-stuff@dis.org>
From: BlueFlux <blueflux@EliteHackers.org>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3648D96F.43C55983@acm.org>
At 16:25 1998-11-10 -0800, Jim Gillogly wrote:
>BlueFlux writes:
>> If this refers to the ENIGMA codes used by the germans, im curious.
>
>It doesn't, but it's still worth being curious about.
>
>> According to my material, it was a swedish mathematician who was first to
>> break the ENIGMA ciphers.
>
>If you're thinking of the Swedish mathematician Arne Beurling, he broke
>the Geheimschreiber teleprinter traffic (in 1940) rather than Enigma.
>A small Polish team led by Marian Rejewski had broken the Enigma cipher
>much earlier, in 1932, and they handed their break to the British in 1939.
>
Ahh, thanks.....*goes back in shattered pride and vanity to hide in his
corner*
This was the person i was looking for;)
-BlueFlux
