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All crypto systems fail when faced with human operators! There was one story of an Afrika corp operator who sent HIT - LER as the 2 'secret' triplets every day
by oiuytghyujki 16y ago
All crypto systems fail when faced with human operators!
There was one story of an Afrika corp operator who sent HIT - LER as the 2 'secret' triplets every day for the entire North Africa campaign. Then disastrously he was captured!
It's an interesting question as to whether at least the best (4-wheel naval) system could be cracked without operator error or deliberate plain text seeding.
The only flaw of the enigma is that a letter cannot be encrypted to itself - I have heard different accounts of if this was enough to always make it crackable.
- protomyth 16y agoAll crypto systems fail when faced with human operators! Also doesn't help if you don't destroy your crypto books / equipment when boarded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-505 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-505
- oiuytghyujki 16y agoIt's an interesting bit of military psychology that while every side in WWII broke their enemy's codes - all of them believed all their own codes to be unbreakable!