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If I remember correctly, the encryption performed by the Enigma machine was cracked largely because they would never repeat the same character twice in a 3 lett
by Buttons840 7y ago
If I remember correctly, the encryption performed by the Enigma machine was cracked largely because they would never repeat the same character twice in a 3 letter key. The Allies discovered this and it was a big help in their code breaking efforts.
My point being, even mathematicians might mistakenly believe that repeating a song or artist is less random. The creators of the Enigma machine were not dumb, but they believed that repeating letters would be more predictable and thus less random.
- adwww 7y agoI thought the weakness was that a character was never replaced by itself? Eg. HH (for Heil Hitler) could never be replaced with HH, no matter what the seed.
- Buttons840 7y agoYour right, I think I was wrong. They made a few similar mistakes, but what I described might be wrong. They did not allow a digit in the key to repeat in the same position 2 days in a row, I just reread. If the key was "123" yesterday, it could not be "145" today, because the first position was unchanged.