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>One weakness of that generation of Enigma was that it could not self-encode a letter. That is, A was never encrypted to A. That's not just "a weakness", that
by andrepd 3y ago
>One weakness of that generation of Enigma was that it could not self-encode a letter. That is, A was never encrypted to A.
That's not just "a weakness", that is afaik the central weakness that allowed the breaking of the enigma in the 30s by Polish codebreakers.
- account-5 3y agoI didn't know about this thanks for the tip. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28167071 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28167071