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Re: mechanical workings of Enigma
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Loofbourrow)
Wed Apr 2 10:17:50 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 02:04:25 -0800
From: Nathan Loofbourrow <njl@cyberpass.net>
To: Andrew McEwen Mason <andrew@knowledge.co.nz>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3335C896.7D5C@knowledge.co.nz>
Andrew McEwen Mason writes:
> Apparently Tony is now working on reconstructing a Turing Bombe. He has
> written a simulator that takes, on a 100MHz Pentium, 18 hours to do what
> the original Bombe did in 15 minutes.....
I've read the 18 hour figure several times now, and frankly it makes
me suspicious. In fairness, Tony Sale should make his simulator
public, so that it can be aggressively optimized.
nathan
