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If you can build a network, that can crack Enigma after being trained on German and preceding encryption methods, then you might have made a step towards this.
by tgv 5y ago
If you can build a network, that can crack Enigma after being trained on German and preceding encryption methods, then you might have made a step towards this. But note that cracking enigma "only" took a few people a few months, that these scripts have eluded many people for a much longer time, and that the source language of Enigma was known, as was its script.
- eru 5y agoI get your general point, but the Enigma (or any encryption) is a pretty bad example. Encrypted text 'wants' to be obscure, even to those who know the system but lack the key. Most writing systems 'want' to be decipherable to people in the know. In addition, Enigma has a fairly short key length by modern standards, and lots of accidental flaws that make it even easier to crack. (Eg an automated system that knows a lot of German _might_ be able to figure out that the enigma never encrypts a letter to itself, even without seeing any schematics.)
- mcswell 5y ago"the enigma never encrypts a letter to itself": I recall that the clue to one day's cypher was a longish document that contained every letter except 'L'. The analyst guessed that it was produced by somebody running a test who kept typing the letter 'L'--she was right.