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There's the entertaining bit in the film The Imitation Game (the breaking of Enigma code by Alan Turing) where they realised that a weakness was the daily weath
by robaato 1y ago
There's the entertaining bit in the film The Imitation Game (the breaking of Enigma code by Alan Turing) where they realised that a weakness was the daily weather report always containing the words "weatherreport" and "heil bloody hitler" (with obvious addition!)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fAsSNjedZWI https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fAsSNjedZWI or longer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkETN-xENAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkETN-xENAM
Also a more proper explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8
- _verandaguy 1y agoIIRC this is relatively close to what happened in real life. Enigma wasn't safe against chosen ciphertext attacks.