25 Apr
2007
25 Apr
'07
11:50 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, der Mouse wrote:
The "traditional" Unix password hash is
DES-based (the trivialized
Enigma code is crypt(1), not crypt(3)). Was there an even older
version? Did it ever escape Bell Labs?
For that matter, was enough publicly known about the Enigma at the time
to do that then?
I thought that Unix (1969) was developed well after WW2. Didn't WW2 end
in the 1940s? After WW2, the Enigma was well understood, and was no
longer an enigma.
The basic principles of the Enigma were well known, enough for the British
to make an emulator. It was the details of the wheels and the codes that
were hard to come by.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com