Christie's auction and other computer history events

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Mon Feb 21 09:08:19 2005

>> Neither is speaking of "the Enigma" as if it were a single
>> thing. :-)

Enigma is a single thing just as PDP-11 is a single thing -- in both
cases, a family of designs where the key architecture is fixed across
all models.

The biggest delta, as I recall, was that one variant had four rotors
instead of three, and even that doesn't affect the fundamentals of the
cryptanalysis.

        paul
Received on Mon Feb 21 2005 - 09:08:19 GMT