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The Enigma was a very advanced cipher at the time, even though it was eventually broken. Not that long ago, if you think about it. Which makes you wonder if a s
by randomwalker 18y ago
The Enigma was a very advanced cipher at the time, even though it was eventually broken. Not that long ago, if you think about it. Which makes you wonder if a slightly more advanced civilization can visualize and take apart MD5, SHA-1 and AES just as easily as we can the Enigma.
- adamt 18y ago"was eventually broken - Not that long ago" The smart folk at Bletchley Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park) were happily deciphering German messages for most of the war.
- randomwalker 18y agoOh, I meant that the whole thing was not too long ago, WW2 and everything, in the scale of human progress. (I know all about Bletchley -- crypto is part of my day job :-)
- zitterbewegung 18y agoExcept we have taken apart md5, sha1 and working on AES... cryptosystems are made to be broken. We haven't proven if a one way function exists. When we can do that then we can move forward in encryption.