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The page mentions Enigma@Home. How much computation would be required to brute force check all Enigma keys? Edit: found this on Wikipedia: "the military Enigm
by nitrogen 6y ago
The page mentions Enigma@Home. How much computation would be required to brute force check all Enigma keys?
Edit: found this on Wikipedia: "the military Enigma has 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 different settings (nearly 159 quintillion or about 67 bits)"
- imglorp 6y agoThat's not how it's been broken historically. Breakers leveraged operational errors like the enemy reusing the same key for multiple messages or having messages with standard formats.