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Yes, let’s name it after the machine that helped the Germans kill and isolate the Allied powers. Great work /s
by sgammon 4y ago
Yes, let’s name it after the machine that helped the Germans kill and isolate the Allied powers. Great work /s
- tialaramex 4y agoEnigma is a weird name because the World War II Enigma is the last famous example of the bad way cryptographic systems for serious purposes used to be built. During that same war the Germans also used Lorenz, which while it's obviously not secure today is a much more normal modern design, a stream cipher. Nothing we use today resembles Enigma at all, it's the sort of thing a crank would come up with and post to Reddit or whatever, but stream ciphers like Lorenz are totally normal. ChaCha20 is a famous modern stream cipher.