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Fialka: the bigger, better, Russian Enigma
- omonra 12y agoOne correction - fialka is not color purple but the flower Viola (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_(plant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_(plant) It follows the Russian military tradition of naming weapon systems with rather incongruous names that rather befit children toys (or actually are names of characters from children's books) - such as the butterfly, apricot, the little ballerina, the squirrel, bouquet, little lamb (that's just ones starting with a and b). Full list (in Russian): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%8F https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5...
- acqq 12y agoReferenced first is an impressive: "Cryptanalysis of GOST" http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/attachments/2243_GOST_29C3_long.pdf http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/attachments/2243...